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lgreens Boots Alliance is due to report quarterly results Wednesday, and investors will be looking for updates on a pending merger, the pharmacy chain's cost-saving efforts and any early read on the currency fallout from the Brexit.

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Five European stocks that deserve a look.

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Roughly a year after starting to invest in the company, Julian Robertson (Trades, Portfolio) has chopped half his stake in Enzymotec Ltd. (NASDAQ:ENZY), a maker of nutritional ingredients and medical foods.

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Taiwan's electronics industry has been a pillar of its prosperity for the past four decades, turning the island into a key supplier for the likes of Apple, IBM and Dell, and spawning billionaires such as Hon Hai’s Terry Gou and Quanta's Barry Lam.

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PepsiCo reports second-quarter earnings Thursday and the soda and snacks giant's results may provide some insight into the condition of the shaky global economy.

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Since the salad days for stocks ended with the 2008 financial crisis, the new normal has been slower than average economic growth coupled with friendly (low) interest rates.

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Looking back to 2 days ago, Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) priced a 9,000,000 share secondary stock offering at $72.11 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 Thursday, bargain hunters could buy shares of VTR and achieve a cost basis even cheaper than those buyers, with shares changing hands as low as $72.04 per share.

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Investors in American Airlines Group Inc (NASD: AAL) saw new options become available today, for the August 26th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AAL options chain for the new August 26th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.

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Andreas Halvorsen (Trades, Portfolio), a former prot & cute of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson (Trades, Portfolio), on June 23 doubled his stake in one of the largest power generators in the U.S., Calpine Corp. (NYSE:CPN), as lower natural gas prices spur natural gas-fired generation and are expected to continue. The purchase consisted of 10,047,081 shares, increasing his stake by 95.8% to 20,540,332 shares, at an average price of $14. Halvorsen bought the position in the fourth quarter 2014 with 4,881,477 shares at an average price of $15 and increased it to 10,493,251 shares in the first quarter at an average price of $14. Calpine stock edged down 2% year to date and 20% for the past year. Thursday afternoon it is priced around $14.21.

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With a history of profit growth and beneficial trends in the recreational vehicle industry, Thor Industries makes an excellent portfolio addition.

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