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Press coverage about Paramount Gold Nevada (NASDAQ:PZG) has been trending somewhat negative recently, according to Accern.  The research firm identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time.  Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable.....More>>>

GE is a great American company.  But its a company in decline, as evidenced by its recent financial performance. 

Wall Street has taken notice sending its shares sharply lower in a strong overall market.  So far, this year, GEs stock is down 27.30%, while its peers have been rallying.  Siemens is up 17.26%, Honeywell International....More>>>

Osisko Mining (TSE:OSK) Director Robert Wares purchased 10,000 shares of Osisko Mining stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 15th.  The shares were bought at an average price of C$2.06 per share, with a total value of C$20,600.00. 

The typical business model of an engineering consultancy firm like Exponent, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPO) is simple yet attractive.  These firms are pure manpower-driven businesses that cater to a vast array of industries, work mostly on medium-to-long-term contracts, have negligible direct costs other than manpower, and have strong foreseeability of revenues.  Also, the low capital expenditure associated with....More>>>

Eight states – Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington – and the District of Columbia have fully legalized possession of small amounts of marijuana for adults’ recreational use.  An additional 13 states have decriminalized it.  And 29 states, along with Puerto Rico and Guam,....More>>>

Chris Reining isn’t your average retiree.  He said goodbye to his working years at 37, and is now financially independent, living his life on his own terms. 

Growing up in a middle-class family in Illinois, Reining says he did well in school, earned scholarships, and attended the school that paid him most.  Unlike many other young people, he graduated with only $4,500 debt, which he....More>>>

At some point during the holidays the eggnog wears off and the conversation can become stale, so those inclined to buy and sell stocks during a day off might be tempted to fire up their trading accounts.  It turns out there are tried and tested ways of making money betting on the stock market during the holidays. 

Here are the stock market indices that rally over the holidays (From Kensho)

The market is filled with stocks.  Ever since bond yields went to zero as the Federal Reserve tried to rescue the economy from the mortgage crisis, it has forced people to go further out on the risk curve in order to get the income they had been used to getting from bonds. 

Risk is the foremost concern of my stock advisory newsletter, The Liberty Portfolio.  Most investors unknowingly take on....More>>>

The fierce battle for India’s hundreds of millions of mobile users has claimed another casualty. 

Aircel, the country’s fifth-largest wireless operator with around 85 million subscribers, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, the latest company in an increasingly cutthroat industry to throw in the towel. 

The firm, owned by Malaysian communications group Maxis, said it was....More>>>

December 27, 2017: Markets opened slightly higher Wednesday and all three major indexes traded in a narrow band not too far from the opening line.  Among the S&P sectors, counter-cyclicals posted small gains while energy and telecom were the biggest daily losers.  WTI crude oil for February del

Right now, traders are dreaming of a drop in Iran crude supplies and almost tasting the piquant rally for oil prices and stocks.  But the nuclear deal situation has a lot of moving parts and that means gains could fade fast.