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• Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is peddling an extremely risky and controversial investing product

  24-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Cristiano Ronaldo attacks defenders on the soccer field, he does so with a quickness that leaves their heads spinning. Before they know it, they've lost.
  A controversial investment brokerage Ronaldo has been advertising on Twitter can sometimes have a similar effect on investors, according to a report from Donal Griffin of Bloomberg News.
  Offering products called contracts for difference, Exness Group allows investors to make highly leveraged trades that can provide outsized gains on the wa
  
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• Bank stocks are on fire and traders are lining up bets for more to come

  24-09-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  No area of the stock market benefited more than financials following the Federal Reserve's most recent comments.
  Now traders are betting the group's climb to the highest level in a decade has a ways to go.
  An index of financial stocks climbed as much as 1% on Wednesday, with the majority of those gains coming immediately after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced that it will slowly begin the long-awaited unwinding of its balance sheet next month.
  The gauge finished the day up 0.6%
  
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• BANK OF AMERICA: One area of the stock market could double in the next 2 years

  24-09-2017 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch thinks the hottest area of the global stock market has much higher to climb.
  Perhaps surprisingly, it's not the S&P 500, even though the benchmark US index has shown some serious strength, climbing 12% this year.
  The bank's analysts are talking about Asian emerging-market equities, which have put the US to shame, surging a whopping 33% over the same period. Based on comparisons to past bull-market stretches, the group has historically risen roughly 230% during e
  
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• The 'death rate' of America's biggest companies is surging

  24-09-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Savor the time you have with the companies in the S&P 500, because in 10 years half of them will be replaced.
  The length of time large-cap stocks have spent in the benchmark index has been declining, from 33 years on average in 1985 to 20 years as of 1990. And their window is forecast to get even smaller in the future, shrinking to 14 years by 2026, CLSA wrote in a client note, citing data from Innosight.
  Those dwindling S&P 500 shelf lives are being driven by record merger-and-acquisit
  
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• A 36-year-old who manages $4 billion breaks down why Amazon is his most bullish bet (PRWAX, AMZN)

  24-09-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  It's been smooth sailing this year for anyone in the stock market who bet on big tech companies.
  The so-called FAANGs, including Facebook, Alphabet, and Netflix, have earned their stripes in 2017 by outperforming the broader stock market and being responsible for much of its gains.
  That's partly why stock pickers are having a strong year — they held a record overweight position in tech.
  And so, for fund managers heavily weighted in the so-called growth sectors, 2017 has been a good year.
  
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• The Feds are looking into some suspicious Equifax trades (EFX)

  24-09-2017 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Raise your hand if you've heard this before: There may have been some funny business around the Equifax hack.
  In the latest development, the House Financial Services Committee is now looking at some Equifax options trading that took place following the initial discovery of the breach, but before it was disclosed to the public, according to a report from CNBC's Liz Moyer.
  The activity in question occurred on August 21, when a block trade for 2,500 units of an Equifax put contract w
  
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• 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle' wins a bland weekend at the box office

  24-09-2017 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The domestic box office is feeling a little hungover from the last two week's monster take from Warner Bros./New Line Cinema's horror "It."
  This week, audiences had a diverse selection of titles in wide release to choose from: "Kingsman: The Golden Circle," "The Lego Ninjango Movie," and the horror "Friend Request." Though the "Kingsman" sequel took the win, all three titles underperformed compared to industry projections.
  "The Golden Circle," continuing the James Bond-like antics of franchise s
  
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• Why Martin Shkreli’s view on corporate profits is misguided

  24-09-2017 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Luigi Zingales and Business Insider executive editor Sara Silverstein discuss comments made by imprisoned former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. Zingales says that while the pursuit of peak profits has become the corporate mantra, that isn’t a hard-and-fast rule. He views Shkreli’s assertion that profit maximization is the most important consideration as too narrow. Zingales then talks about how private companies often
  
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• One of the market's hottest trades is riskier than ever

  24-09-2017 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Making bets on volatility has never been more popular.
  Nor has it been riskier.
  For signs that investors are hungry to wager on future price swings, look no further than the cottage industry that's popped up around the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX. Their preferred vehicles are a series of exchange-traded products linked to the so-called "fear gauge" that have shares outstanding at or near record highs.
  Traders have also grown increasingly fond of betting against volatility, once again using VIX
  
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• The Republican healthcare bill would bring 'close to unprecedented' chaos in the health system

  24-09-2017 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Republicans are taking one last stab at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but experts say their latest attempt runs the risk of bringing chaos to the US healthcare system.
  Experts say the so-called Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill, whose legislative fate became more uncertain Friday, would set up a deadline for states that could cause massive upheaval and sow uncertainty in insurance markets.
  The legislation would keep intact several provisions of the law known a
  
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• Amazon is making huge physical bets in defiance of the retail apocalypse

  24-09-2017 15:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon has become synonymous with online shopping.
  But the online giant is increasingly moving into the physical world, opening spaces in malls, shopping districts, and even local strip malls. It's a move that signals the company's ambitions are larger than ecommerce.
  One reason that may be, an anonymous source told CNBC, is that Amazon is seeing online sales go up in areas that have physical stores. Brick-and-mortar stores increase customer awareness of the brand, and it's extra
  
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• Here's how Wall Street says to trade Trump's tax reform

  24-09-2017 12:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Corporations aren't the only ones set to profit from the Republican tax plan that's expected to be released this week.
  You can too — if you know where to look.
  Just focus on the so-called "Trump trade," which involves betting on the areas of the market poised to benefit most from the pro-business policy overhaul being touted by the president.
  Investors have already started piling back into the trade after a long hiatus, as they start to hope for real progress on the policy front. 
  But
  
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