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Dow Jones

Why This $67 Billion Healthcare Merger Is Boosting the Dow Jones Today

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The Dow Jones today projected a 32-point gain in premarket hours on news that healthcare giant Cigna has agreed to purchase Express Scripts for $67 billion.

Continued merger and acquisition activity in the healthcare sector is a sign the industry is moving toward higher profitability, and higher share prices...

Technology

New Amazon Healthcare Initiative Highlights One of Our Top Profit Plays

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News of the Amazon healthcare initiative is dominating headlines globally today, and the announcement highlights one of the biggest profit opportunities we've been telling readers about for years.

Here's why we remain bullish on Amazon stock, and how high we see AMZN stock climbing from here...

Washington

Congress Wants to Fleece Taxpayers to Bail Out This Filthy Rich Industry

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The fate of the nation's healthcare is up to Congress.

And right now there's a bill with serious bipartisan support making its rounds through the chambers.

This proposal was supposedly crafted with taxpayers' future well-being in mind.

That's not exactly true, however. Here's what we mean...

Dow Jones

Dow Jones News: Markets Climb as Unemployment Rates Shrink

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In Dow Jones news today, the markets climbed as the unemployment rate shrank to 4.4%, the lowest it has been since 2007.

However, investors are still cautious as the markets await the results of the French election.

But that's not all you need to know - here are all the important stock market stories to look over for May 5...

Dow Jones

Today's Stock Market News: Dow Slides as Trump Policy Concerns Weigh on Trader Sentiment

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Today's stock market news focuses on a premarket slide in the Dow as traders are jittery about President Trump's ability to implement his economic policies.

Trader are also parsing through Republicans' new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

Here's a look at today's most important market events and stocks, plus a look at today's economic calendar.

Dow Jones

Dow Jones News Today: Dow Rises as the Twitter Stock Price Plunges

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In Dow Jones news today, the markets are rallying even though the Twitter stock price is plummeting.

Crude oil prices are also climbing, and gold prices are higher early this morning.

Here's a look at today's most important market events and stocks, plus a look at today's economic calendar.

Stocks

This Stock Offers High-Growth, Low-Stress Protection from Trump's Tweets

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By now we've all seen the "Trump Tweet Effect" in full effect these past weeks, as the president-elect's unfiltered social media messages hit some of Wall Street's favorite stocks, like Boeing, for better… or worse.

Lockheed Martin, for instance, one of our best defense plays, lost $4 billion in value in the aftermath of Trump's tweeted remarks about the F-35 Lightning program.

Frankly, the losses on Lockheed and Boeing, and for that matter the gains on SoftBank, say more about Wall Street traders than about Donald Trump – or the stocks he's talking about.

But the truth is, it's likely we can look forward to this kind of "volatility" from here on out.

Unless… you go with the recommendation I'm going to show you now.

It's offering explosive growth in a blue-chip package - 37% gains year to date, and I can't imagine any mere 140 characters are going to ding it...

Washington

Obamacare Failures Tear Apart Government-Insurer Partnership

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With the Department of Justice trying to block two mega-mergers, the health insurance companies have struck back by pulling out of the Obamacare exchanges.

Now Democratic lawmakers are accusing the insurers of using their participation in Obamacare as a bargaining chip to change the DOJ's mind.

But the government is far from innocent here.

The insurers are no saints, but the government is at least as much to blame for this mess...