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Why Indirect Marijuana Play Full Circle Capital Is Likely Overpriced
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 2:38pm | 2205On January 22, a day after Advanced Cannabis Solutions (OTC: CANN) announced a funding deal with Full Circle Capital (NASDAQ: FULL), the 420 Investor recommended that subscribers consider buying Full Circle Capital as a backdoor marijuana play. That recommendation no longer looks smart, as...
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Should Cannabis Investors Fight The SEC?
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 4:03pm | 879This is part two of a four-part series with 420 Investor Alan Brochstein. Read part one here. Investors are quite familiar with the concept of "don't fight the Fed", which is an adage about bewaring the power of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy -- but what about the SEC? Some believe...
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Barron's Recap: Bad News For Putin
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 6:48am | 822This weekend in Barron's online: the effects of oil at $75 a barrel, the next stage of Obamacare, as well as the prospects for Tesla's Gigafactory, DDR, Exact Sciences and more. Cover Story "Here Comes $75 Oil" by Gene Epstein. The long-term outlook for global oil prices is lower, says this week...
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Wrong NEST Syndrome: Verify Before You Buy
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 3:27pm | 517It happened again. Careless investors, thinking they were buying shares of Nest Labs, the thermostat company Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just spent $3.2 billion on, scooped up the penny stock of a bankrupt red-light traffic camera company called Nestor. As a result, Nestor shares jumped 1,900...
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CBOE Up on Record First Quarter
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 10:54am | 377CBOE Holdings (NASDAQ: CBOE) is finishing the week strong after posting record first-quarter results. The Chicago-based firm's EPS surged 35 percent to $0.50, beating estimates of $0.47. Revenue climbed 17.5 percent year-over-year to $142.71 million, topping the Wall Street consensus of $139.3...
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China-Biotics to Resume Trading Today on the Pink Sheets
Friday, July 1, 2011 - 7:23am | 18Benzinga has called FINRA to confirm that the same ticker symbol will be maintained upon resumption of trading.