Apple TV Could Still Be a Major Opportunity, if Apple Can Execute

The tech giant’s hiring of a new exec from Amazon comes as pay-TV streaming apps and a burgeoning smart home market spell new opportunities. The TV has long been Apple’s white whale, a giant digital content and communications platform that has captured its imagination for at least a decade, but one which it has only established a modest presence for through a line of streaming set-top boxes.

Cheniere Is Ready for Another Leg Up

Cheniere Energy has one of these chart patterns that tells us this stock is ready to pop higher. We liked the strong move up just a couple weeks back, and now we see some consolidation that forms a bullish pennant pattern.

Sinking Treasury Yield Lifts Gold

Gold continues to trade well with fresh ETF inflows as the dollar and equities chop back and forth. The most interesting thing about the gold market is that it is making three-month highs despite still having a very small net length position.

Allstate’s Rally Is in Good Hands

In this one-year daily bar chart of ALL, above, we can see a large seven-month sideways consolidation pattern that ended in November when ALL turned higher again. ALL is above the rising 50-day moving average line and above the rising 200-day average line.

Dr. Alveda King: Sen. Warren Used the King Name to Stir Up Emotions

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reacts to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife in the Senate. The Senate voted along party lines in favor of a rule that essentially silenced Senator Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday night after she quoted from a letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, Coretta Scott King, during her criticism of Sen. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s pick for Attorney General.

Why Gilead Sciences Stock Slumped Today

The biotech’s double-digit plunge was mainly sparked by its worse-than-expected 2017 guidance that was released late Tuesday. The key piece of information that’s driving Gilead’s shares lower on Wednesday is the biotech’s particularly anemic 2017 sales forecast for its hepatitis C franchise.

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The coach of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick, has created a dynasty in an era when doing so shouldn’t be possible. The National Football League has gone out of its way to prevent this from happening.

TCF Financial chairman dies at age 73

This Friday, May 1, 2009 photo shows Bill Cooper, CEO of TCF Financial Corp., at his company’s corporate headquarters in Wayzata, Minn. Cooper, credited with reviving and building the once failing savings and loan into Minnesota’s third-largest … This Friday, May 1, 2009 photo shows Bill Cooper, CEO of TCF Financial Corp., at his company’s corporate headquarters in Wayzata, Minn., overlooking Wayzata Bay.

Should You Buy Twitter Shares Because Of… Trump?

In the grand scheme of investment theses, this is probably among the more bizarre that I’ve seen. There’s been an awful lot of negativity surrounding Twitter BTIG Research analyst Rich Greenfield has just upgraded Twitter from neutral to buy and assigned a one-year price target of $25.

The Outlook for Coal Looks Brighter in 2017

Coal production is coming off its worst year since 1978, and for the first time, last year natural gas overtook coal as the dominant fuel for electricity generation in the U.S. Production of coal fell 18% in 2016, versus 2015. But miners should benefit from higher demand in 2017 and 2018, as coal-fired electricity bounces back amid higher costs for natural gas.

Oil Prices End Higher For First Time In Three Sessions

Oil prices settled with a gain Wednesday for the first time in three sessions, with a sharp climb in gasoline prices leading energy futures higher. Data from the Energy Information Administration revealed a 13.8 million-barrel weekly jump in U.S. crude supplies-the second-largest on record-but also showed an unexpected decline in gasoline inventories.

Microsoft Adds Patent Suit Protections For Cloud Customers

Microsoft Corp. will help cloud customers fend off patent lawsuits and expand coverage of related litigation costs, seeking to distinguish its services from rivals in the fast-growing market for internet-based computing. As more companies host their applications and services on Microsoft’s Azure and other cloud providers, they are increasingly becoming the target of lawsuits from companies seeking to make money by claiming patent infringement.

New York Times Offers Free Spotify Service to Boost Subscribers

New York Times Co., looking for ways to persuade readers to pay for news, is working with Spotify Ltd. to give new digital subscribers to the newspaper free access to the world’s largest music-streaming service. Readers who buy one-year online subscriptions to the Times will also get unlimited access to Spotify’s premium service, which costs $120 annually, the companies said Wednesday.

New FCC Chairman Rolls Back Net Neutrality Rules

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission is a holdover from the Obama administration, but he has plans to unravel policies set forth by his former boss. Ajit Pai, previously a commissioner for the FCC, is honing in on net neutrality.

Remembering Hans Rosling, the visualization pioneer who made data dance

Professor Hans Rosling, the statistician and epidemiologist who brought dramatic flair to animated visualizations of dry public health data, has died in Finland of pancreatic cancer, according to the foundation he started with his children. For much of the public not steeped in the arcana of epidemiological data sets or data visualization techniques , Rosling burst onto the scene in 2010 as part of the BBC special “The Joy of Stats .”

7 Stocks Trending Up With Unusual Volume

Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don’t just look at a stock’s price moves, they track big changes in volume activity . Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.

Oil Prices Fall on Bloated U.S. Fuel Inventories, Stalling China Demand

Oil prices slid on Wednesday to extend falls from the previous session, as a big increase in U.S. crude inventories and a slump in Chinese demand implied that global oil markets remain oversupplied despite OPEC-led efforts to cut output. International Brent crude futures were trading at $54.81 per barrel at 1257 GMT, down 24 cents from their previous close.

The New Era of Investment Advice: Finding a Clear Path Forward

RIAs are being buffeted by significant headwinds, including: Competition from newer entrants like robo-advisors Cost pressures and fee compression Time and resource scarcity – more to do in the same 24 hour day, product proliferation and complexity, and increasing regulatory demands These cross currents and challenges seem to make it harder than ever to helpa Click to read more at ETFtrends.com.

Moller-Maersk shares slide as Q4 profits sink further

Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk says its losses deepened to $2.7 billion in the fourth quarter from $2.5 billion a year earlier, adding the whole of 2016 had been “a difficult year financially with headwinds in all of our markets.” For the full year, Maersk reported a loss of $1.9 billion, down from a profit of $925 million in 2015.

This Is The State Of Gender Diversity On Boards Around The World

One particular problem the recent Snap IPO news brought to light yet again is how few women sit on the boards of directors of major public companies. This, in light of the fact that recent findings from MSCI ESG , a global research firm, indicate that companies with strong female representation on boards generated a Return on Equity of 10.1% per year versus 7.4% for those without.