Brexit To Hurt VW And Gap, But Not Walmart
24/7 Wall St. looked at major winners and loses at the effect of Brexit hits the U.K. and EU. VW and Gap (NYSE: GPS) have large sales and financial exposure. Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has…
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10 Largest Short Positions In NASDAQ Shocks
These are the 10 NASDAQ stocks with the largest short positions base on share count for the period that ended June 15. Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) almost always tops the NASDAQ list, to…
10 Largest Short Positions In NYSE Stocks
These are the 10 NYSE companies with the most shares sold short as of June 15. Share in deeply troubled Brazil metal giant Vale SA (NYSE: VALE) dropped 6.8% to 180,527,026. Shares sold short…
Apple Short Interest Plunges 36,775,085 Shares
Just about the time Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) products were being blocked in China, which could take away its fastest growing market, its short interest for the period that ended June 15 plunged by 36,775,085 to…
Air Pollution Kills 6.5 Million A Year–IEA
The photos of air choked cities in India and China now have a number associated with them. According to the IEA, 6.5 million people die of air pollution each year. Each year an estimated…
McAllen Texas Tops List Of Idle Young Americans
According to a new study by 24/7 Wall St. entitled “Cities With The Most Idle Youth”, McAllen, TX is the leader. The research was based on several factors: There are an estimated 3 million…
VW To Be Crushed By Brexit
VW is by far the largest seller of cars in the EU. It has nearly 25% of the market. As the region’s economy will almost certainly slow, so will VW’s sales The trouble for…
Amazon Drops 4K Ultra HD TV Below $2,000
Is it any wonder that by some estimates Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has move ahead of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to become the largest consumer electronics dealer in America? Aside from its huge e-commerce traffic,…
West Virginia Is State With Most Drug Overdoses
by 24/7 Wall St. entitled “10 States With The Most Overdoses”, West Virginia is at the top of the list. The details: Fatal drug overdoses are on the rise in the United States. Specifically,…
Amazon’s $43.34 Drone
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to make home delivery via drone put it at the vanguard of retail distribution, once again. It has also become what may be the largest source of drones for consumers.…
Green Bay Packers Profit Is $48.9 Million
The Green Bay Packers are a small market team. It is also the only NFL team to releases its financials. And, those financials show what a small market team can make if it is…
Finding Houses Where People Have Been Murdered
In an age when people can buy a $100 million apartment in Manhattan and $25,000 houseboats on the Ohio River, there might as well be a service to find houses where people have been…
Mansion With Its Own Airstrip For Sale In Ohio
Orient, Ohio is not far from Columbus, southwest of the larger city on I-71, on the way to Cincinnati. A mansion, with its own airplane hanger and airstrip is for sale in Orient, for…
The Most Self-Serving Reaction To Brexit? Congresswoman Gwen Moore
With the possible exception of Donald’s Trump’s press conference at his Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, the most self-serving comments about Brexit by any U.S. politician came from Congresswoman Gwen Moore The in a…
Will Brexit Drive U.K. Unemployment Back Toward 10%?
Which is worse for jobs in the U.K.? The Great Recession, or the Brexit? The world is about to find out. At the peak of the recession, U.K. unemployment reached nearly 9%. Now at…
Brexit And U.K. Economy By The Numbers–GDP, Population, And Industry
Even Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was out of breath about new of the Brexit: “We take note of the decision by the people of the United Kingdom.…
2015 Toyota RAV4, 2014 Nissan Rogue, and 2014 Subaru Forester Have Crash Test Problems
Passenger-side, front-seat occupants of some small SUVs may be at risk based on crash tests of seven small SUV models. These IIHS crash tests showed that passengers in the 2015 Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE:…
3 Stocks to Buy Now That Brexit is a Reality
Against all odds, the citizens of the United Kingdom have voted to exit the European Union by a large 4 point margin. Against all odds literally, because UK bookies all favored “Remain” and…
U.S. Markets Could Open Higher As Futures Rally
The effects of the Brexit on U.S. markets could be short lived. Futures have rallied off bottoms set just after the vote was announced. What the event will do to the American financial world…
U.K. Markets Rally From Bottom After Brexit Drop
The only markets which have recovered from bottoms made by sell-offs in Asia and Europe are those in the U.K. The FTSE 100, which was off over 8% has come back to a drop…