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Amid the carnage of the American oil industry, shares of Parsley Energy have doubled in the past year. How did Bryan Sheffield do it?

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30.

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The majority – 99% -- of Warren Buffett (Trades, Portfolio)'s net worth is wrapped up in the company he built, Berkshire Hathaway. He talks far less about the other 1% he invests on the side.

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It's always a good sign when the market trades lower but can't follow through. The last couple of days of trading in stocks have exhibited this type of behavior. Each day took the market lower, but losses were significantly pared. This type of trading may be indicative of a market looking to go higher despite its trading at strong resistance levels.

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Fifteen years a foreign investor basically couldn't buy Chinese stocks. Then along came a scheme for a few qualified institutions, basically huge investment banks. The scheme has mushroomed. Then in 2014 China allowed 568 shares to trade in the unrestricted Hong Kong market and more of that is on the way.

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Recently, Facebook introduced 'Deep Text' a text understanding engine that can understand with near human accuracy the textual context of several thousand posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. The company plans to use this technology to improve user experience on its platform in several ways. Some examples include, identifying the best quality comments on a public post and improving transaction experience on the Facebook platform, including the Messenger app. At the same time, Google has announced Magenta, a project from the Google Brain team, which aims to use machine intelligence for music and art generation. Both companies are investing heavily on artificial intelligence with the aim of attracting more users and advertisers to their platforms. We believe that in the future the company that is able to better deliver AI (artificial intelligence) will lead the industry.

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Gold ended a quieter session slightly lower Thursday, in another narrow, two-sided trading affair. Some fresh economic news Thursday failed to significantly move the precious metals markets.

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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) may never live up to the hype and sizzle of the brand at the current price level.

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With today's record $1 billion loan to fund an acquisition of Qlik Technologies, BDCs are giving notice that direct lending is moving far beyond its middle market roots to challenge traditionally distributed debt financing.

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Looking back to 2 days ago, First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) priced a 2,500,000 share secondary stock offering at $71.20 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting that their investment would go up over the course of time. In trading on Friday, bargain hunters could buy shares of FRC and achieve a cost basis 1.5% cheaper than those buyers, with shares changing hands as low as $70.10 per share.

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