Healthcare stocks are getting smoked after JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway say they’re teaming up to reduce costs for employees

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan are teaming up to try to make healthcare more affordable for their US-based employees. Insurance stocks like UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, Anthem and others are deeply in the red early Tuesday after the news hit. Shares of insurance providers, benefits managers, pharmacies and other healthcare cimoabues are getting smoked in […]

2 of the world’s biggest chipmakers are sinking as cryptocurrencies get smoked (NVDA, AMD)

Markets Insider Nvidia and AMD are two of the largest producers of graphics processing unit cards for cryptocurrency mining. Both stocks took a hit Friday morning after cryptocurrencies large and small slumped.  Shares of Nvidia and AMD, two of the world’s largest chipmakers whose businesses have recently been fueled by supplying graphics cards for cryptocurrency […]

Cryptocurrencies are getting smoked

MI NEW YORK  – China has banned the hottest trend in cryptocurrency fundraising and now the entire market for digital currencies is under pressure. On Monday morning in Beijing, a slew of Chinese regulatory agencies released a joint statement in which they affirmed that initial coin offerings (ICOs), a cryptocurrency-based fundraising method, are illegal in […]

Hedge funds betting on stocks are having their best year since 2009 — but they’re still getting smoked by the market

Reuters / Brendan McDermid Equity hedge funds are off to their best start to a year since 2009, but they’re still trailing the S&P 500. In a market that’s been largely devoid of price swings, hedge funds have been piling into the same proven stocks. The performance of stock hedge funds this year isn’t exactly […]

Hedge funds betting on stocks are having their best year since 2009 — but they’re still getting smoked by the market

Reuters / Brendan McDermid Equity hedge funds are off to their best start to a year since 2009, but they’re still trailing the S&P 500. In a market that’s been largely devoid of price swings, hedge funds have been piling into the same proven stocks. The performance of stock hedge funds this year isn’t exactly […]

Kyle Bass still doesn’t understand why he’s getting smoked in China

“Wall Street Week” Sometimes, no matter how right you are, you’re still wrong and you’re still going to lose money. On Thursday hedge fund manager Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital told Reuters that China’s credit problems are “metastasizing” and that he still expects the yuan to fall 30% against the dollar when it does. It’s […]

Women who smoked during pregnancy 'linked to autism in their granddaughters'

GETTY Smoking during pregnancy linked to ‘autism in granddaughters’ The girls were 67 per cent more likely to display traits like poor social skills and repetitive behaviours. And when grans sparked up this increased the risk of her grandchildren having a diagnosed autism spectrum disorder – ASD – by more than 53 per cent. The […]

Lung cancer: Woman who never smoked DIED after being diagnosed with 'stress'

PA/GETTY Andrea Flint died of late-stage cancer last year after initially being told she was just stressed Andrea Flint died after developing stage four cancer, which by the time it was diagnosed, had spread to her brain. Suffering from back pains and nausea, she visited her doctors about five times over a four month period, […]