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• GOLDMAN SACHS: A 'surprising twist' is playing out in the stock market right now — here's how to capitalize on it

  25-03-2018 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Goldman Sachs notes a "surprising twist" playing out in the stock market that has created opportunities that haven't historically been available during these types of conditions.
  The bank provides some recommendations around how to deal with these dynamics — one of which involves sticking with a familiar favorite.
  When the stock market doesn't behave the way one might expect, that's actually when some of the best opportunities crop up.
  Such a situation is playing out right now, as so-calle
  
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• The world's largest Coke bottler is shutting down operations in one of Mexico's most violent states because of constant attacks

  25-03-2018 23:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world's largest bottler of Coke shuttered its operations in a town in southwest Mexico on Friday.
  Coca-Cola Femsa said the shutdown was prompted by constant aggression from organized-crime groups.
  Attacks on big companies and multinationals have been rare in Mexico in the decade since the country ramped up its war on drugs and organized crime.
  Coca-Cola Femsa, the world's largest Coke bottler, said on Friday it was indefinitely shutting down operations in Ciudad Altamirano, a town at the nor
  
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• Investors are reacting in surprising fashion to Facebook's privacy woes (FB)

  25-03-2018 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  Technology stocks have been under pressure during the past few days as Facebook's recent scandal has spooked investors.
  Amid the turmoil, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has noticed traders reacting in surprising fashion.
  There's no denying Facebook's recent privacy woes have hurt the broader technology sector. Just look at the Nasdaq's rough last couple days for evidence of that.
  But Bank of America Merrill Lynch has crunched data that reveals something surprising: amid all of the chaos, traders
  
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• Wall Street's biggest bull wants to dispel a major misconception about the stock market

  25-03-2018 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  Keith Parker, the chief US equity strategist at UBS, says one of the elements that worsened the stock market's 10% correction earlier this year was simply doing its job.
  In a wide-ranging discussion, Parker broke down the main catalysts for his bullish 2018 forecast, opined on President Donald Trump's newly announced tariffs and the prospect of a trade war, outlined his biggest fear for the market, and broke down his sector picks.
  When the stock market melted down in early February, blame was sp
  
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• GOLDMAN SACHS: Traders think these 15 companies are the most likely to get taken over this year

  25-03-2018 19:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Wall Street is expecting merger-and-acquisition activity to accelerate in 2018, and there's a way to see which companies options traders think have the highest chance of being taken over.
  Goldman Sachs has singled out 15 companies whose options reflect high expectations of an acquisition.
  Wall Street is expecting a major uptick in merger-and-acquisition activity this year. But that information is worthless for single-stock traders unless they know which companies have the highest chance of being
  
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• GOLDMAN SACHS: 'Machines have replaced humans' — and their impact on the next financial crisis could be devastating

  25-03-2018 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  The February sell-off in stocks demonstrated the impact of automated trading on markets, according to Charles Himmelberg, Goldman Sachs' cohead of global markets research.
  "In this new market structure, machines have replaced humans, and speed has replaced capital," Himmelberg said in a note.
  This new ecosystem dominated by machines has dried up the sources of liquidity that would be needed in the next major wave of selling, he said.
  As the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 1,000
  
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• JPMorgan says it's found the perfect trade for worried Facebook investors

  25-03-2018 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Facebook's stock has taken a beating in recent days as a scandal involving a political-research firm has unfolded.
  JPMorgan has a trade recommendation designed to address both scandal-related uncertainty and Facebook's strong underlying fundamental situation.
  As worries mount around Facebook's ongoing scandal, some traders are likely at a loss for what to do.
  The company's stock has plummeted 9% in just two days — its biggest such drop in more than two years — and now investors find
  
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• 'Pacific Rim Uprising' beats 'Black Panther' to win the weekend box-office, but delivers a weak punch domestically (CMCSA)

  25-03-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  "Pacific Rim Uprising" wins the domestic box office with a less-than-stellar estimated $28 million.
  But the movie is flexing its robotic muscles overseas, especially in China.
  "Black Panther" is now the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time domestically.
  "Black Panther" has finally been taken down from the top of the box office after five weeks straight atop it. But sadly for the industry, it doesn't seems like a powerhouse is taking its place.
  Universal/Legendary Picture's "Pacific Rim U
  
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• The stock market is doing something not seen since the financial crisis — and it means huge opportunities ahead

  25-03-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  The stock market is behaving in a way not seen since 2009, when the US was still clawing its way back from the financial crisis.
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch sees this creating big opportunities for one group of investors.
  A common fallacy of the stock market is that once valuations get stretched, chances to make money dry up.
  Don't tell that to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which just published new research highlighting huge opportunities it says have been unlocked by rare conditions brewing
  
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• Here's what investors say they want out of the next Goldman Sachs CEO — and where Lloyd Blankfein fell short (GS)

  25-03-2018 17:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Solomon is now the heir apparent to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
  Procensus, a data company that aggregates and analyzes investor sentiment, surveyed investors on the succession. According to results seen by Business Insider, 19 investors from firms with a combined $11 trillion in assets under management responded, with nearly 75% saying Solomon was the best choice. 
  Investors largely approved of Lloyd Blankfein's performance, but there was a key area they said Solomon could impr
  
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• Steve Jobs wasn't just a design and marketing genius — he had a hidden talent for logistics too, says a former Apple exec (AAPL, MSFT)

  25-03-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs is known for his marketing and design talents.
  But according to Dan'l Lewin, an executive who worked closely with Jobs in the early days of Apple, he also was an expert when it comes to managing supply chains.
  Current Apple CEO Tim Cook is given credit for straightening out Apple's supply chain during the company's resurrection in the late 1990s, but Lewin said Cook couldn't have done it without Jobs.Steve Jobs is well known for being a master marketer and a product d
  
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• CITI: There are 2 ways America's biggest companies dole out cash to shareholders — and one is way better than the other

  25-03-2018 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Companies that consistently buyback their shares outperform those that regularly pay dividends, according to Citi's Tobias Levkovich. 
  Buybacks have helped support stocks at times when mutual funds and other large investors backed off. 
  Critics of buybacks say that they're often done solely to meet Wall Street's earnings-per-share estimates and help company executives earn bonuses tied to stock performance. 
  There are two primary ways public companies return capital to their share
  
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• One Wall Street firm says a bear market will rock stocks in the next year — but it knows how you can survive the turmoil

  25-03-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  US stocks are fresh off a brutal day of selling that saw the Dow Jones industrial average plummet more than 700 points.
  One Wall Street analyst says the weakness is just getting started, forecasting a bear market within the next year.
  He provides a handful of defensive stock-positioning recommendations to help investors get ahead of what he views as an impending meltdown.
  Thursday's bloodbath in US stocks may just be the beginning of troubling times ahead, at least according to one Wall Street f
  
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• Trump is right to resist spending on New York's way-too-expensive new tunnel

  25-03-2018 16:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump opposes a project to build a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
  He's may not be doing it for the right reasons — but the project does cost too much.
  We should ask why it tunnels cost so much here, and find a way to build them for what they would cost in France.
  For President Donald Trump, I'm sure it's mostly about a grudge.
  Chuck Schumer isn't giving Trump the money he wants for a wall on the Mexican border, so Trump doesn't want to fund a similarly priced
  
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• Trump's tariff's will have a 'twofold effect' on General Motors (GM)

  25-03-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Trump's tariffs pose risks on both sides of General Motors' supply chain, according to Cox Automotive economist Charlie Chesbrough.
  The cost increases that GM passes onto consumers will lower demand for its cars.
  Those cost increases that aren't passed onto consumers will impact GM's bottom line.
  President Donald Trump's tariffs pose a risk to General Motors on two levels, economist Charlie Chesbrough of Cox Automotive told Business Insider. Those risks pertain directly to the company's US busin
  
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• BANK OF AMERICA: Here are 4 reasons the escalating trade war is just the 'tip of the iceberg'

  25-03-2018 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Investors have been worried about an escalating global trade war for weeks, but market conditions has worsened over the past few trading days.
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch has issued an ominous warning, suggesting four reasons why trade war turmoil may just be starting.
  Even before the most recent spate of developments, fears over a trade war were hitting a fever pitch.
  A survey conducted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch the week before last showed a trade war was already viewed by fund manager
  
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• A feature on Robinhood's new web platform raises questions about the strength of its user base

  25-03-2018 01:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Robinhood, the popular stock-trading app that reportedly landed a $5.6 billion valuation recently, claims to have 4 million registered users.
  The company recently rolled out a web platform featuring a suite of new features originally unavailable on its sleek smartphone app.
  But data showcased on the web platform also raises questions about the strength of its user base. Apple is the most popular stock, with about 141,000 owning it on the platform, according to the data. That represents just 3.5%
  
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