5 Perfect Stocks to Buy On the Dip

As you will see, I use TipRanks’ data to ensure that all these stocks boast a “Strong Buy” Street consensus rating and big upside potential. A further round of trade war fears — particularly for the tech sector. President Trump has threatened to slap $200 billion of tariffs on Chinese imports arriving in the U.S.

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  Inventories Reduction & Inflation to Impact Silgan Holdings

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  EU tariffs have wiped out our tax cut gains: Catoctin Creek co-founder

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Google warns employees: Be nicer to each other, or face disciplinary action (GOOG)

Google is officially warning its employees that its internal bulletin boards are not a free-for-all for nasty, negative, damaging posts. Over the past year, Google has been embroiled in a boatload of scandals centered on the way its employees treat each other. The company has now taken its first steps to put the kibosh on one underlying cause of these scandals: the company's internal, employee community message boards.

What AmEx's Supreme Court ruling means for you — even if you don't have a card

The Supreme Court handed American Express (AXP) a major on Monday, deciding the credit card issuer didn’t violate antitrust laws by preventing retailers who support its cards from giving discounts for using cheaper alternatives. Credit card companies typically charge merchants fees for each transaction (“swipe fees”) that are 2% on average, according to the National Retail Federation. Amex’s fees, however, are often higher, at around 5%, which frequently deters businesses from accepting payments made with Amex cards.

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  We're All Subsidizing People Who Use American Express

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  My ex-wife stopped payments on our home and racked up credit-card debt in my name

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Time to Buy Microsoft Corporation Amid Tech Stock Rout?

Tech stocks have been under fire over the past few days and Monday was a great highlight of that fact. Investors with a watchlist have likely noticed Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), as MSFT stock has weathered the storm pretty well, but is now below $100. Microsoft is aimed squarely at the cloud world, with its Azure platform growing sales by more than 90% for 10 straight quarters.

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  What Drives Microsoft’s Average Revenue per User

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  Microsoft Azure to be Leveraged by InMobi Advertising Cloud

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Should you pay off your mortgage before you retire?

Winnie Sun, co-founder and managing director or Sun Group Wealth Partners lists the pros and cons of paying off a mortgage before retirement.

5 Top Stock Trades for Thursday — Is Micron’s Run Over?

Stocks looked like they might be able to gain some momentum in early trading Wednesday, but those gains faded as investors clearly aren’t reaching for equities as they head into the third quarter. That’s left a number of interesting setups as we eye our

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  The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Royal Dutch Shell, Micron and Western Digital

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  Micron’s DRAM Business Shows a Strong DRAM Market Environment

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Can China Survive Trade War as Stocks Crawl Into Bear Market?

On Jun 25, shares of U.S.-listed Chinese companies plummeted on reports of the White House planning to curb Chinese investments in U.S. companies involved in certain technologies. On Jun 26, the benchmark Shanghai composite officially entered the bear market. Trade war fears have been taking its toll on China’s stocks as the Chinese government is striving hard to protect the economy.

• Bears prowl world markets, maul Chinese stocks as trade tensions simmer

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  Asian stocks mixed over befuddling US trade stance

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Alibaba Scales Back Presence in Silicon Valley as U.S.-China Tensions Escalate

Alibaba Group is scaling back its presence in Silicon Valley—a sign that the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chinese investment in U.S. companies is casting a chill. Bloomberg's Jodi Schneider reports on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia." CHINESE INVESTMENT CASTING A CHILL OVER SILICON VALLEY. ALIBABA HAS IN MAKING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN INVESTMENTS, PARTICULARLY U.S. STARTUPS, TO GAIN A FOOTHOLD AND GET AMERICAN CONSUMERS INTERESTED IN SOME OF THESE PRODUCTS. THIS YEAR IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, THEY HAVE MADE ONE INVESTMENT, A $26 MILLION INVESTMENT IN A STARTUP, AN ISRAELI COMPANY.

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  Alibaba Pulls Back in U.S. Amid Trump Crackdown on Chinese Investment

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Wall Street tumbles on renewed U.S.-China trade jitters

By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday on renewed uncertainty regarding the U.S. stance on Chinese investments in American technology companies, reversing gains earlier in the session. At the market open, stocks rose as President Donald Trump said he will use a strengthened national security review panel — the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) — to deal with potential threats from Chinese acquisitions of U.S. technology, instead of imposing China-specific restrictions. The decision was seen by investors as a somewhat softer approach than plans reported earlier to block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. tech firms.

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  Stocks Struggle, EM Pressured as Trade Clouds Loom: Markets Wrap

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Intel Blows Keep Coming as Apple Modem Contract May Be at Risk

It was another day of bad news for Intel Corp. on Wednesday, as a new data point suggests that it may lose Apple Inc.’s modem business, according to a note from Northland analyst Gus Richard. Richard, who rates the stock the equivalent of a sell, wrote that MediaTek Inc., which manufactures modems, might displace Intel for the product at Apple, which he says has been rumored to be working on their own modem. Apple is already planning to phase out Intel chips in Mac computers as soon as 2020, people familiar with the plans said in April.

Rite Aid-Albertsons Deal: US SEC Sanctions Proxy Materials

Rite Aid Corporation RAD is progressing well toward the completion of its pending merger with the grocer, Albertsons Companies, Inc. The progress of the deal became evident, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) made the previously filed registration statement on Form S-4 effective. Following this, Rite Aid is now urging its shareholders to vote in favor of the merger deal. Voting, regarding the proposed transaction, will be carried out in the Special Meeting of Rite Aid shareholders, which is scheduled for Aug 9, 2018.

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  What Rite Aid’s Management Expects from Fiscal 2019

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• Highfields Capital Intends to Vote Against Rite Aid Corporation's Proposed Merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc.

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Options Traders Expect Huge Moves in Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Stock

Investors in Chesapeake Energy Corporation CHK need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. What is Implied Volatility? Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big move in one direction or the other.

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  Implied Volatility Surging for Tesaro (TSRO) Stock Options

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  Are Options Traders Betting on a Big Move in Vital Therapies (VTL) Stock?

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