Amberger began his career as a freelance contributor to Agora publications before emigrating from Germany to the United States in 1989, when he joined the editorial board of Taipan. In 1991, he took over as managing editor for the publication and assumed responsibility as group publisher four years later. In 2007 Christoph left Taipan and founded Today's Financial News.
Rising gold and silver prices push our silver picks Coeur d’Alene Mines Corp. (NYSE:CDE), Silver Wheaton (NYSE:SLW), Hecla Mining Co. (NYSE:HL) well into the black.
Pre-pandemic profits on Sinovac (AMEX:SVA) Vical Incorporated (NASDAQ:VICL), and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (NYSE:RDY)?
The unexpected absence of the Chinese fencing coach can only be due to one thing: Sinuvac’s (AMEX:SVA) reported a breakthrough with their new anti- H1N1 swine flu vaccine!
A comparison of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA) and Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:MVL) allows us to define the only proper strategy to trade the upcoming FriendFinder Networks IPO.
On June 10, 2008, Alexei Miller, CEO of Russia’s Gazprom, told a French audience that crude oil prices would reach $250 a barrel in 2009. His former Gazprom cohort and then freshly minted Russian prime minister Medvedev did him one better… pegging crude oil prices at $500. Was it wishful thinking? Did the gentlemen overdose on “hard-money” investment newsletters and Peak Oil Theory? We may never know.
The Swiss central bank just cut back interest rates for the franc. World currencies are in a race to the bottom. Only the U.S. dollar seems suiidally determined to remain high…
The U.S. markets soared today. News of positive earnings at embattled banking giant CITI Group (NYSE:C) indicated that there’s a spark of life remaining in the U.S. banking industry.
The Russia-Ukraine battle for natural gas played out well last year for these three natural resource stocks, and it’s happening again. J. Christoph Amberger of Today’s Financial News predicted back in November of 2008 that the Ukraine would go into a “deep freeze” and that forecast came to pass at the beginning of this year.
They are called the Echo Boom generation and by now represent over 70 million consumers in the United States. This year, the four-million strong segment born in 1990 finished high school and scattered across the nation’s campuses. And every year hereafter, another four million will be hitting the road… literally… in cars provided to them by the most indulgent parental generation in history.
Since bicycles are a pain, especially for cross-country drives, and part of the parental generation’ dream is to cut down on your second job as unpaid taxidrivers, I believe a combination of winter attrition, 16th and 18th birthdays, high school graduations, and college-bound freshmen will kick-start the used-car business in the second quarter of 2009.