Tuesday, June 19, 2018
For an investor trying to build wealth, the massive amount of news coming out of the financial media can be contradictory and confusing. Investors sometimes don’t realize that there are two sides to every stock trade. The seller doesn’t want to own the shares for a range or reasons, and the buyer does so with […]
The old way of providing healthcare in the United States is fast disappearing and being replaced by new technologies, which is changing the way healthcare is dispensed. And many of these new providers of healthcare are not your traditional healthcare companies. These are among the findings of the latest research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Some interesting […]
More disruption is headed to the healthcare industry, challenging the power of the incumbents in the sector. I’ve already told you about the recently announced effort by JPMorgan, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) to get into the healthcare space. Their aim is to create a not-for-profit healthcare company to try to lower […]
Could this be Warren Buffett’s Valentine’s Day Massacre? On February 14, Berkshire Hathaway filed a 13-F form with the SEC, updating the market on its quarterly holdings. It showed a surprising fourth-quarter acquisition – Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA). Berkshire bought 18.9 million shares for $358 million. Following the stock’s inevitable “Buffett Bounce,” […]
A few weeks ago, I told you about the announcement from Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) that it was joining forces with JPMorgan and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to disrupt the healthcare industry. More specifically, the venture is being aimed at the many middlemen in the U.S. healthcare industry including insurance companies and pharmacy benefit management companies. […]
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has often been referred to as the ‘Death Star’. In Star Wars, this was the ultimate weapon, capable of destroying an entire planet. Not a bad analogy, considering Amazon’s ability to totally disrupt the existing order of entire industries. Next on the list of industries to be disrupted looks to be healthcare, […]
The world of medicine is quickly moving from the pages of a science fiction novel to reality. Imagine a time when a person’s cells are “re-engineered” to recognize and attack cancer, so that conventional therapies are not needed. Well, that time is upon us. Immunotherapy – therapies that use and strengthen the power of a […]
Do you believe in the power of positivity? If so, roll up to Wall Street… because it’s abundant. According to the Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism index, investor optimism is at its second-highest level. The survey of 1,015 Americans with $10,000 to spend outside of their retirement funds recently hit 140 points – just […]
A new word has appeared in American lexicon in the past few years: Amazoned, often used in the phrase, “to be Amazoned.” To me, it is a synonym for disruption. Just look at what Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has done and what it threatens to do. First, Amazon disrupted the U.S. book sector then the general […]
A recent approval from an U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has heralded a new era of medicine. An era where diseases are tackled in a totally different way, by inserting into disease sufferers functioning copies of genes that are either missing or mutated. Gene therapy is a complex subject. So think of […]
