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The investment bank’s decision to expand to Canada was part of a larger strategic shift to align with clients’ expansion plans

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Greece needs a new tranche of financial aid under its 86 billion euro bailout by the third quarter of the year to meet debt repayments

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New Trade: Long Netflix ($NFLX) & Short Etsy ($ETSY)Today I am opening my 7th trade of the year and surprisingly they are all still live. So far so good but no need to jinx it at this point. As is always the case, you can see past 2016 (and previous years) trades here:

http://www.intelligentspeculator.net/livetrades

Let’s start off by looking at the numbers:

TickerNamePricePE RatioPE Next YearReturn YTDSales GrowthAnalyst ratingBook ValueBetaRevenue/ShareSales 5Y Avg GrowthEPS 5Y Avg Growth

ETSYEtsy Inc12.9N/A59.279.6839.833.833.061.893N/AN/A

NFLXNetflix Inc142.22338.1260.1514.7130.263.956.231.4620.5923.4695.62

Both of the two charts that follow are tremendously bullish for AMZN. That it’s seeing revenue growth accelerate while much newer player Etsy’s growth is quickly declining and as you can imagine that is also reflected in the interest from Google trends.

credit: Google Trends
Long Netflix (NFLX)
I have a long term very bullish view on Netflix that I hope to write about very soon but suffice to say that I think the company is starting to gain incredible leverage from its position in the market and I do think that while it will hit occasional stock price hits (difficult to avoid them when trading at such high P/E’s), the company remains tremendous value at these levels and I do expect Netflix to keep driving both the top and bottom line forward in the coming years thanks to its position in the market where consumers see it as a must have and content producers are in many ways forced to sell their content to help their long term competitor…

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Landmark buildings in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal have become safe havens for the world’s wealthiest investors

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