Month: February 2016

As stocks have risen in recent weeks on the biggest short-squeeze in 7 years, so VIX – the expected volatility of the market – has dropped to 2016 lows. However,…

Over the weekend, our friend John Gavin at Probes Reporter revealed something disturbing to Valeant longs, namely that “New Data Now Confirms Valeant’s Undisclosed SEC Investigation.” This is what the…

“Designed to stimulate students’ imagination as they explore the economic problem of scarce resources, various methods of allocation, and how societies react to alleviate such problems,“ The Boston Fed has…

So much excitment but by the end of the month… Some high-/low-lights for February… China’s Shenzhen Composite Down 28.8% in 2 months – biggest drop since July 1994 Dow Transports…

Nigerians spend $3 billion annually for their medical trips abroad, even in these so called “hard times” Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) Director, Mr. George Etomi, told The Nation. Earlier…

The storm has been brewing for a while now and it becomes real tomorrow Tuesday, March 1, 2016 when the Consumer Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria (CAFON) and the Coalition of…

SimbaPay, a digital money transfer provider, has expanded its instant Africa money transfer service to five new European countries (France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain). With this platform, Africans living…

Two years ago, when looking at the first available public data out of HFT frontrunning powerhouse Virtu, we observed the surge in net income from FX at the expense of…

Amid a recent exuberant short-squeeze-driven bounce, the ‘real’ valuation of the Russell 2000 remains at insanely high levels… and gravely decoupled from credit markets… But as Dana Lyons’ explains the…

Just when you thought it was safe to buy the dip and pile into this “value” stock, Lumber Liquidators does it again. On a conference call this morning, and hot…