By SIMON CONSTABLE
Walt Disney had a heck of a weekend at the box office.
In its debut weekend, "The Lion King" took in a staggering $185 million of theater receipts, easily beating estimates of $150 million. Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
British-based but Africa-focused, Tullow Oil could come up a gusher.
Its shares (ticker: TLW.UK) have the potential to jump 40% or more in the next 12 months, analysts say. Investors, they argue, are giving Tullow little credit for its prospects in East Africa. Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
The three largest index-fund managers have grown so big that they ultimately could hamper the performance of public companies and the economy, according to research from corporate-governance scholars.
The researchers—Lucian Bebchuk, professor of law, economics and finance at Harvard Law School, and Scott Hirst, a law professor at Boston University School of Law—recently published two papers that raise issues for investors. Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
A burning desire for pot stocks may leave unwary cannabis investors with more speculative investments than they realize.
Take two exchange-traded funds focused on the cannabis industry: ETFMG Alternative Harvest (MJ) and the recently launched AdvisorShares Pure Cannabis (YOLO). While they both purport to track the same industry, they are actually quite different. Read more here.
By SIMON CONSTABLE
When Wall Street analysts use the terms “rerating,” “rerate” or “derating,” they are talking about something at the heart of the investing process: changes in investor sentiment. Read more here.
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