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The share price of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been pushing higher today as the company prepares to split its shares at a 7 to 1 ratio after the market closes today. Apple shares opened this morning at 650.00, up from yesterday’s close of 647.35. Even though the share price has not returned to the record high […]

Two years ago, 06 June 2012, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) share price was $29.22. By the same date in 2013 that share price has more than tripled to $97.35. It is currently trading at $206.25, after reaching a record high of $254.84 on 04 March 2014. The current price is up 1.21% from yesterday’s close of […]

Let’s get one thing straight right from the beginning. I despise Walmart (NYSE:WMT). I despise Walmart as a reluctant customer, I despise Walmart as a Chamber of Commerce president, and I despise Walmart as a former supplier. What’s more I despise Walmart as an American businessman. Sam Walton Was Not a Saint, but He Was […]

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the first commercial air flight. What was once a fantasy has become so much more than a reality. It has become so much of our daily lives that we now take air travel for granted. Yet, this now common experience continues to be offered in a financial sector where […]

Company also to resume production at Monaca facility EveryWare Global, Inc. (Nasdaq:EVRY), announced today that it entered into a Forbearance Agreement with the administrative agent and certain other lenders under the Company’s Term Loan Agreement. In addition, EveryWare entered into an amendment to the Company’s asset back loan (“ABL”) agreement with the lenders under...

Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYCC) (Nasdaq:CYCCP), a biopharmaceutical company developing oral therapies that target the various phases of cell cycle control for the treatment of cancer and other serious disorders, announced plans for the clinical development of sapacitabine in a second potential indication for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) after treatment failure of...

Don’t say we didn’t tell you this could happen. It may not have been a Freaky Friday on Wall Street, but it sure was fun.  Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOWI:DJI) set new record highs and Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) led all stocks as the most active by a long-shot. Let’s […]

Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KPTI), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, today announced multiple presentations of clinical data from an ongoing Phase 1 trial of its lead drug candidate, Selinexor (KPT-330), in patients with hematologic malignancies at the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. The data indicate that first-in-class oral...

As I sit down to begin this article, Friday is only and hour and a quarter away in London. A few short hours later, it will be business as usual, then off for the weekend. I would suggest that the occasional glance be given to Wall Street during the day, and after the LSE closes. […]

After writing yesterday about the S&P 500 reaching new heights, I was prepared to follow up today with a similar story. However, as I usually caution, what goes up must come down. Except that with the indexes it’s more like a kid blowing up a balloon. They get excited as it gets bigger and bigger, […]