Here are many of the well-followed life science stocks that are in the news with diagnostics, drugs and vaccines that may have an impact on the COVD-19 pandemic.

The US Dollar churned steadily higher relative to its Mexican Peso counterpart last week. The 5% rise in spot USD/MXN price action, which pushed the top emerging market currency pair to the 25.000 handle and 2% below its all-time high.

Only 32 of the universe of 319 pot stocks closed last week above US$1/share declining -10.8%, on average, versus -6.2% the previous week, and slightly less than the -11.4% decline, on average, for the entire sector.

Investors around the world are trying to figure out when will the stock market stop falling, hit bottom and finally recover for a rebound. I provide the technical analysis on which stocks to invest in and buy once the stock market hits bottom.

Markets are down because the perennial optimist President Trump now fears there will be many US deaths after all. This chopped the US opening for Q2. He also finally agreed to do some classic pump priming using infrastructure investment.

Bankers are threatening to release the button on their suicide vests and blow themselves up by not taking the bailouts if they can’t have their bonuses.

While the US Dollar had gained as much as 8.8% last month, USD/CAD had moved up by as much as 10.2%; highlighting that additional CAD weakness that helped to push USD/CAD up to a fresh four-year-high.

In this article, we discuss how an options screen you can perform with a few taps of your thumb on your iPhone can help you avoid stocks before they plummet.

with shorts no longer allowed to speculate in IG debt or anything less risky only a few things remain subject to the whims of markets: junk bonds and stocks. After the epic squeeze in LQD, the short base on both HY ETFs and the SPY remains elevated.

Recession fears are palpable. Concerns about a Depression-level calamity are elevated. I take another look at how to interpret Google Trends which reveal these fears through relative search volume. They could speak to the sustainability of a bottom.

The markets have been clinging onto hope that as soon as the virus passes, there will be a sharp V-shaped recovery in the economy and markets. We acknowledge there will likely be a short-term market surge as the economy initially comes back online.

The United States is staring in the face of a very difficult economic period. With the March jobs report showing losses of over seven hundred thousand, April will be a bloodbath with job losses approaching 30 million.

The Australian Dollar’s trading week will be dominated like that of all other assets by the coronavirus’ spread, but its domestic monetary response will once again be in focus too with an interest rate decision from the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Stocks had a rough day on Friday, April 3, after the unemployment report came in much weaker than expected. It resulted in the S&P 500 (SPY) trading down by about 1.5%, which wasn’t bad, but it could have been much worse.

Shanghai ZhenGe Biotech, a China CDMO, completed a $51 million Series A financing round led by Shanghai-based healthcare investment firm Lyfe Capita. The company will use the proceeds for additional hires and to expand its Shanghai R&D center

Today's article identifies the three non-penny pot stocks that advanced by 5% or more on Friday, the 10 stocks that declined by more than 5% and eight of the remaining stocks that warrant mentioning.

After hitting a peak in mid-February, the Wall Street tumbled into a bear market in less than a month, triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak. Though the decline was broad-based, small-cap stocks fared worse than their large- and mid-cap counterparts.

In just four days' time, the Fed has stuffed more than half a trillion cash in QE back into bank reserves, which has sucked up any backed-up surplus of treasuries the primary treasury dealer banks had by permanently replacing those with cash.

Every week we post an update on new unemployment claims shortly after the BLS report is made available. Our focus is the four-week moving average of this rather volatile indicator.

Here are my forecasts for upcoming economic data including such important releases as Initial Unemployment Claims, Core CPI and Retail Sales.