Zacks CPSI stock into this equation and find out if it is a good choice for value-oriented investors right now, or if investors subscribing to this methodology should look elsewhere for top picks: PE Ratio A key metric that value investors always look at is the Price to Earnings Ratio, or PE for short. This shows us how much investors are willing to pay for each dollar of earnings in a given stock, and is easily one of the most popular financial ratios in the world. The best use of the PE ratio is to compare the stock’s current PE ratio with: a) where this ratio has been in the past; b) how it compares to the average for the industry/sector; and c) how it compares to the market as a whole. Markit NASDAQ/NGS:AMBC Summary ETFs holding this stock are seeing positive inflows Bearish sentiment is moderate and increasing Economic output for the sector is expanding but at a slower rate Short interest Neutral Short interest is moderate for AMBC with between 5 and 10% of shares outstanding currently on loan. This represents an increase in short interest as investors who seek to profit from falling equity prices added to their short positions on December 26. ETF/Index ownership Positive ETF activity is positive. Motley Fool Many members join because they expect to take advantage of all the ways Costco (NASDAQ: COST) and Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) Sam's Club let you save money.
Just like there are ways to work out that don't involve the gym, there are ways to save money that don't involve joining Costco or Sam's. You can be a fiscally responsible person who opts to not be a warehouse club member (or you can be a financially reckless one who understands that a warehouse club membership won't help). Here are the biggest reasons to not renew your Costco or Sam's Club membership. Bloomberg Now, after guiding CVS through its $69 billion acquisition of insurer Aetna Inc., he has the chance to cap off his career by successfully managing this expensive experiment and, in the process, creating a template for the future of American health care.
Chrome in Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you’re on Windows or Mac, you can enable PIP by right-clicking a video and clicking “Picture in Picture Mode.”. The same will also be happening in Chrome OS soon, but in the meantime, you can still use the flag #enable-surfaces-for-videos to give it a try. To use PiP, right-click inside a video frame.
The merger creates a company that’s singular in its size and scope, combining CVS’s nearly 10,000 stores and 1,100 clinics with Aetna’s 22 million enrollees. It also includes CVS Caremark, a leader among pharmacy benefit managers. Merlo — a pharmacist by training who’s been CEO since 2011 — has said the idea is to create a more local, coordinated, and accessible “front door” to health care. “We look at the industry and we define it as one that's fragmented, and often times care is uncoordinated,” he said at a recent Evercore ISI health-care conference. Investor's Business Daily Shares in Dell Technologies (DELL) gained Friday as the information technology giant returned to the public markets after a five-year absence, also sparking gains in Dell-controlled VMware (VMW), Pivotal Software (PVTL) and SecureWorks (SCWX). Meanwhile, JPMorgan initiated coverage on Dell stock with an overweight rating. Ibd-display-video id=4042362 width=50 float=left autostart=true The return to public markets came after Dell bought back shares that tracked its stake in software maker VMware (VMW), which it finished in November. MarketWatch As 2018 draws to a close and the reality of recreational marijuana in Canada sinks in, the next round of initial public offerings in the cannabis sector will likely come from U.S.-based companies looking to raise cash.
For Canadian companies, the IPO party is most likely just about over, according to ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (MJ) partner Jason Wilson, who doesn’t expect a swath of freshly capitalized Canadian companies to list in 2019. At the close of this year, there are already dozens of publicly traded firms in the chilly country battling one another for the recreational market that has kicked off with more of a whimper than a bang. MarketWatch Getting to that $2 billion figure requires some fancy math: Green Growth values its own shares at C$7 apiece, even though they only topped C$5 a share on the Canadian Securities Exchange for the first time Friday morning. Don’t miss: Hostile bid for pot producer Aphria comes from billionaire Ohio family’s new U.S. Company Executives from the two companies had a “friendly” meeting Thursday, at which Green Growth laid out its proposal and attempted to secure an exclusive deal, Chief Executive Peter Horvath told MarketWatch in an interview Thursday, though he framed the bid as hostile.
I guess it’s technically a hostile takeover,” Horvath said. MarketWatch A roller coaster end to a downbeat 2018 has stock-market investors desperate for clarity on the market’s path and a return to less volatile price swings. “Some recent assurances about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s job, movement on trade discussions, and while somewhat mixed of late further economic evidence that the U.S. Is still growing above trend, will coalesce to form the base for the next sustained rally,” said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney, in an email. Volatility was underscored by action in over the past, holiday-shortened week, which saw major indexes fall more than 2% Monday to post their biggest Christmas Eve drop in stock-market history only to roar back when traders returned Wednesday to log their biggest one-day gains in years and the largest-ever day-after-Christmas gain, which was followed Thursday by a large rebound from sharp intraday losses. MarketWatch Would you be prepared if the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 4,000-plus points? The Dow has fallen more than 4,000 points from its high this year — all of it in the fourth quarter.
In mid-October I suggested that investors be prepared for a sudden downdraft, asking in a column “Would you be prepared if the Dow Jones Industrial Average were to fall 5,700 points?” I chose that number because the Dow fell 23% on Black Monday in October 1987, equivalent to about 5,700 points today. Motley Fool How to make money with marijuana stocks in 2019 Although It's unclear if 2019 will be any kinder to marijuana stock investors, there are three trends that could turn into substantial moneymakers. Think small (but within reason) To begin with, small-cap marijuana stocks appear to have considerably more to offer heading into the new year than mid- and large-cap pot stocks. That's because mid- and large-cap stocks were considerably more likely to have landed a brand-name partner in 2018, and thereby packed on a substantial valuation premium.
Motley Fool The stock market's recovery petered out on Friday, as major indexes generally eased lower by a fraction of a percentage point. With many market participants out for the holiday week, movements in stocks were choppy, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average seeing losses of as much as 150 points and gains of nearly 250 points at times during the day. Good news sent some stocks higher, though, and Aphria (NYSE: APHA), Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT), and Opko Health (NASDAQ: OPK) were among the best performers. Motley Fool Companies with large market capitalizations tend to grab the most financial headlines, but plenty of small-cap stocks deserve attention from investors, too.
These small-caps stocks are worthy of a closer look, according to these three Motley Fool contributors: Q2 Holdings (NYSE: QTWO), Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX), and OrganiGram Holdings (NASDAQOTH: OGRMF). Leveling the playing field Brian Feroldi (Q2 Holdings): Would you open an account at a new bank if you couldn't access your money online? Market Realist How Cannabis-Based Biotech Stock GW Pharma Has Fared in December (Continued from Prior Part) Financial performance in fiscal 2018 In fiscal 2018, which ended on September 30, GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH) reported total revenue of $12.74 million, a YoY (year-over-year) rise of 15.75%. According to the company’s fiscal 2018 fourth-quarter earnings conference call, this performance was partly attributable to the increased sales of Sativex. Additionally, according to the company’s earnings conference call, it also recognized research and development fee revenue after the termination of its agreement with Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and subsequently reacquired the US rights for Sativex.
In Chrome 66, rolling out now for Mac and iOS, Google has added a password export option to the web browser so that you can easily migrate your login details to another browser via a third-party password manager app. In this article, we'll show you how to export your passwords from Chrome on Mac and iOS. At the end of the process, you'll be left with a CSV file containing all your login credentials. Popular password managers like Enpass and 1Password accept CSV files for importing login data. Just be aware that the CSV file you export from Chrome is in plain text.
That means your credentials could be read by anyone with access to it, so make sure you securely delete the file once you've imported the data into your password manager of choice. Google released Chrome 71 earlier this week, but the latest version of the web browser still lacks support for Dark Mode on macOS Mojave. Fortunately, it appears that will change by early next year.Dark Mode in Canary, a developer build of Chrome As mentioned on Reddit, a Google developer recently submitted a code change that implements system-level Dark Mode in Chromium, the open source web browser that serves as the foundation of Chrome. The code change passed the review process and will make its way into a future release of Chrome.For those unaware, there are several different builds of Chrome that Google uses to slowly test and roll out new features. Google Chrome now enables picture-in-picture as a default setting on Mac, Windows, and Linux computers as of Chrome 70. If you are up-to-date and watching a compatible video in the Chrome web browser, you can minimize it and continue browsing the web in other tabs, while the video keeps playing in a new miniature screen (via Android Police).The feature works similarly to Safari's implementation of PIP: on compatible websites you can two-finger click twice on a playing video to find 'Picture in Picture.'
This will pause the video on the main tab, turn it black, and display the video in a new window that can be moved around anywhere on the screen.PIP was previously in the Chrome 69 beta but it had to be manually enabled, so it appears that Google is making it easier for users to gain access to the feature with Chrome 70. PIP still isn't available on every video-playing website since it will have to be adopted by each site, but you can enable PIP with YouTube in Chrome on macOS starting. Google says it is willing to make changes to its new Chrome auto-login feature, following heavy criticism from privacy-conscious users.In previous versions of the browser, it was left up to the user whether they wanted to log in to Chrome while they used the app. However in Chrome 69, released earlier this month, if you sign in to a Google site like Google Search, Gmail, or YouTube, you also get logged into Chrome automatically, and there's currently no way around it.Google originally claimed the feature was introduced to prevent data from leaking between accounts on shared computers, but the move has been criticized for its potential to make it theoretically easier for Google to upload users' browsing history. Google responded to the criticism in a blog post: 'We want to be clear that this change to sign-in does not mean Chrome sync gets turned on,' said Chrome product manager Zach Koch. 'Users who want data like their browsing history, passwords, and bookmarks available on other devices must take additional action, such as turning on sync.' Despite clearing that up, the blowback has apparently been vehement enough for Google to tweak Chrome 70, due in October, which will offer users a clear opt-out for the auto-login feature.While we think sign-in consistency will help many of our users, we're adding a control that allows users to turn off linking web-based sign-in with browser-based sign-in – that way users have more control over their experience.
For users that disable this feature, signing into a Google website will not sign them into Chrome.In. On the 10th anniversary of Chrome's launch, Google today updated its popular browser to version 69, introducing a new look and several new features for the desktop and mobile apps.Chrome 69 offers up a refreshed design with rounded tabs, a new color palette, and new icons, with the updated design extended to menus, prompts, the address bar, and other browser aspects. Google says the new design is meant to provide a simpler look that boosts productivity.On iOS, changes have been made to make browsing faster, such as a relocated toolbar to the bottom of the app, with the new design also extending to Chrome for iOS.Chrome 69 brings improvements to the way that Chrome manages passwords. Like Safari, Chrome now generates a secure password for you, saving it so that it can be used the next time that you sign in to a particular site.The updated version of Chrome is also able to more accurately fill in passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers to make it quicker to get through checkout forms. Password and address information is stored within a Google account and can be accessed from the Chrome toolbar.Chrome's Omnibox, which combines the search bar and the address bar, has been updated to display answers directly in the address bar without needing to open a new tab. This includes results on public figures or sporting events, word translations, weather information, and more.Google is making Chrome more customizable with the option to create and manage shortcuts for favorite websites directly from the new tab page, and the update offers several under-the.
Google is currently rolling out its Chrome 66 update to users of the web browser on Mac and iOS. The Mac version now mutes autoplaying content by default, while both desktop and mobile versions include a passwords export option, security improvements and new developer features.Mute autoplay was originally slated for Chrome 64, which introduced autoplay settings on a per-site basis, but the function got pushed back for unspecified reasons. However, Chrome 66 now rolls out the default behavior for all users, and feeds into Google's wider intention to make the media playback experience more consistent when users navigate the web.Going forward, web-hosted media can only automatically play if it has no audio, if the user interacted with the page during a previous browsing session, or if the user frequently plays media on the site. Similarly on mobile, media can only autoplay if the site was added to the Home Screen by the user.The new passwords export option was previously hidden in Chrome's backend flag menus, but Chrome 66 adds the option to the user-facing settings. That said, it's still not obvious how to generate the CSV file containing your login credentials, so we've published a separate how-to article that goes through the process step by step.As for enhancing security, Chrome 66 follows through on Google's plan to deprecate Symantec-issued certificates, after the company failed to comply with industry security standards. The decision to end its trust for Symantec certificates was made when certificates for example.com and variations of test.com escaped.
Google has shuttered the Chrome Apps section of its Chrome browser web store, following through on an announcement the company made more than a year ago. As of Wednesday, the Apps selection no longer appeared in the web store's search panel filters below Extensions and Themes.Prior to yesterday's removal, Chrome apps were available in two flavors: packaged apps and hosted apps.
Google this week revealed some upcoming enhancements to its Chrome browser that aim to protect users from encountering unwanted content on the web, such as when a site unexpectedly redirects them to another page when they click on a video play button.Google says that incidents of users being redirected by websites to unintended destinations are mentioned in 1 of every 5 Chrome feedback reports it receives, and it's now intent on putting a stop to the 'abusive' behavior. One piece of feedback we regularly hear from users is that a page will unexpectedly navigate to a new page, for seemingly no reason.
We've found that this redirect often comes from third-party content embedded in the page, and the page author didn't intend the redirect to happen at all. To address this, in Chrome 64 all redirects originating from third-party iframes will show an infobar instead of redirecting, unless the user had been interacting with that frame.
This will keep the user on the page they were reading, and prevent those surprising redirects.Another example that Google says causes user frustration is when clicking a link opens the desired destination in a new tab, but the main window navigates to a different, unwanted page. The behavior is designed to circumvent pop-up blockers, but Google is planning a clampdown. Staring in Chrome 65, the browser will detect this abusive behavior, trigger an infobar, and prevent the main tab from being redirected, allowing the user to continue on to their intended destination.Lastly, starting in early January, Chrome's pop-up blocker will. Google yesterday updated its Chrome for iOS app, which serves as an alternate browser option for those who would prefer to use Chrome instead of the default Safari browser.The latest version of Chrome includes support for the iOS 11 Drag and Drop feature on the iPad, allowing iPad users to drag a URL from Chrome into another app or vice versa.Also included in the update are new Today widgets, which can be accessed by swiping right on an iPhone or iPad to get to the Today view and then choosing 'Edit' to access available widgets.The two new widgets are 'Quick Actions' and Suggested Sites.' Quick Actions offers access to a new search, an incognito search, a voice search, or an option to scan a QR code, plus it includes an area that lists your most recently copied link.
Suggested Sites offers site suggestions based on browsing habits.What's New in Version 62.0.3202.60- Check out Chrome's two new Today widgets. You will need to add them by tapping the Edit button at the bottom of the iOS Search screen- On iOS 11 iPads, you can now drag a URL from another app and drop it into Chrome's omnibox or the tab strip, or from Chrome's content area to another appChrome can be downloaded from the App Store for free. Direct Link. A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google's Web Store vetting processes, it emerged on Tuesday.The fake extension was listed on the official Web Store until today and masqueraded as popular legitimate extension AdBlock Plus, which has over 10 million users. Once installed, the fake reportedly swamps infected computers with adverts and opens up tabs without the user's permission.The existence of the fake extension was revealed by anonymous cyber security personality @SwiftOnSecurity, but it's still not entirely clear if the fake compromised the data of the 37,000-odd users who inadvertently installed it on their browsers.Back in 2015, Google officially blocked Mac users from downloading Chrome extensions not hosted in its official Web Store, over concerns that malicious extensions were becoming rife. Given this latest breach of Google's vetting system, Chrome users are advised to carefully check the developer information of extensions before downloading them to ensure they are legitimate and not spoofing popular browser add-ons. We'll update this article if Google provides clarity on what went wrong this time.
Sling TV announced its first in-browser desktop content player on Tuesday. Using the latest version of Google Chrome, subscribers to the streaming television platform can log in at sling.com to access their favorite content and start playback right from within the browser.It's not yet clear at what quality the content is played within the browser, but Sling TV customers watching on Google Chrome do get access to popular features like 'My TV', the 'Continue Watching' ribbon, account settings, parental controls, and more. Sling TV cautions that the Chrome in-browser player is still a beta version, but no app, plug-in or flash player download is necessary. The service says it will continue to roll out additional features as the browser player matures, including access to cloud DVR and a grid guide. For more information on Sling TV-supported devices, visit sling.com/devices. Google today released Chrome 60, introducing support for the Touch Bar built into 2016 and 2017 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pro models.
After installing Chrome 60, MacBook Pro owners are able to add, remove, and rearrange Chrome shortcuts.The Touch Bar settings can be accessed by through the Menu bar by going to View - Customize Touch Bar. The new settings can be combined with existing Touch Bar options for things like controlling brightness and volume, and there's a toggle for turning off predictive typing suggestions.Today's update also includes a long list of security fixes, which are listed in the Chrome release notes, and new and updated Web Budget, Payment Request, Paint Timing, and Credential Management APIs for developers. Also new is support for the CSS @font-face descriptor and font-display property for faster font loading on websites.The new version of the Chrome browser can be downloaded from the Chrome website. Google will introduce an ad-blocking feature in both its mobile and desktop Chrome web browsers early next year, according to the company. Thursday's announcement confirms rumors back in April that the tech giant was seriously considering the feature for Chrome, and provided more details on Google's motives behind the move.In a blog post, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior VP of Ads and Commerce, said Google wanted to 'build a better web for everyone' by eradicating intrusive ads online without removing all ads entirely, since so many sites rely on ads as their source of revenue. The vast majority of online content creators fund their work with advertising.
That means they want the ads that run on their sites to be compelling, useful and engaging-ones that people actually want to see and interact with. But the reality is, it’s far too common that people encounter annoying, intrusive ads on the web-like the kind that blare music unexpectedly, or force you to wait 10 seconds before you can see the content on the page.
These frustrating experiences can lead some people to block all ads-taking a big toll on the content creators, journalists, web developers and videographers who depend on ads to fund their content creation. Google said efforts to find a solution to the problem involved several steps, one of which is the ad blocking software, or 'ad filter'.
Chrome's ad filter won't block all ads, but only those that are classified as intrusive or annoying. To help with its classifications, Google said it had joined the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group dedicated to. Google appears to be testing a Dark Mode feature for YouTube in the latest version of its Chrome 57 desktop browser. The built-in mode was discovered on Thursday and shared in a Reddit post, and while the setting doesn't appear by default, a quick command in the developer console is all that's required to enable it.YouTube Dark Mode in Chrome with black theme enabled Follow these steps to enable the YouTube dark mode in Chrome on Mac. Make sure you're signed in to YouTube before performing the steps.
Press the keyboard combination shortcut Option + Command + I to open the developer tools sidebar. Click the Console tab.
Paste document.cookie='VISITORINFO1LIVE=fPQ4jCL6EiE' into the console and press enter. Close the developer tools sidebar and refresh the YouTube page. Click your YouTube profile picture, select Dark Mode from the dropdown, and toggle the switch to enable the mode.Google Chrome is available to download for free on the Chrome website. Direct Link.
Google yesterday announced a new feature in the latest update to its Chrome browser that aims to make the progressive loading of web pages less jumpy and annoying.The idea behind progressive loading is to allow users to begin consuming web content immediately before the page has fully loaded, but the offscreen loading of pictures and so on can cause unexpected page jumps and push down what's already on screen, making for a frustrating experience, especially on mobile devices. Google's answer to this problem is something called Scroll Anchoring.Similar to other features designed to protect our users from bad experiences, starting in version 56 Chrome prevents these unexpected page jumps with a new feature called scroll anchoring. This feature works by locking the scroll position on an on-screen element to keep our users in the same spot even as offscreen content continues to load.Google claims scroll anchoring is already preventing about three page jumps per page-view, but says it understands there might be some content for which scroll anchoring is either unwanted or misbehaving.
For this reason, the feature ships alongside a CSS property to override it.While the focus of this feature is on mobile, scroll anchoring is actually also on by default on Chrome for Mac. Meanwhile, Google is encouraging web developers to participate in a community group to discuss the feature's functionality, offer feedback, and learn how to design websites or services 'with a no-reflow mindset'.Google Chrome is available to download for free on the App Store. Direct Link. Version 57 of the desktop Chrome web browser includes a new CPU throttling feature that Google says will lead to 25 percent fewer busy background tabs and help reduce overall power consumption.Charges that Chrome is a battery hog have long dogged Google's browser, leading the company to make efficient power usage a key pillar in its long-term development strategy for the software.
Throttling background tabs by limiting Javascript timers is the latest attempt by Google to improve the browser's reputation.Javascript timers are often used by news sites and social media networks to update web page content in tabs, which uses up valuable CPU cycles. From version 57 of the browser, Chrome will delay timers in individual background tabs if their power usage oversteps the mark. Tabs that play audio or use real-time connections won't be affected, however.Chrome has focused on improving the user experience by throttling tab performance for many years. Like many browsers, Chrome has limited timers in the background to only run once per second.
Via the new throttling policy, Chrome 57 will delay timers to limit average CPU load to 1% of a core if an application uses too much CPU in background. Tabs playing audio or maintaining real-time connections like WebSockets or WebRTC won’t be affected. According to Google, the new throttling mechanism leads to fewer busy background tabs, which typically consume a third of Chrome's power usage on desktop computers.
In the long term, Google aims to fully suspend timers in background tabs and instead rely on new APIs to do the work. The newest build (58.0.3020.0) of Chrome Canary, Google's experimental browser, includes support for the Touch Bar built into the 2016 MacBook Pro, indicating Touch Bar support will soon be added to the Chrome browser.On the Touch Bar, the current Chrome Canary build offers a search/URL bar, forward and back buttons, a refresh/stop option, a button for opening a new tab, and a button for adding a new bookmark.It's much a simpler implementation than Touch Bar support in Safari, which includes preview tabs for quickly switching between windows. There are also no controls available for video or music playback in the browser.Features are tested in Canary before being added release builds of the Google Chrome browser, so Touch Bar support is expected in Chrome 58, set to be released during the week of April 25th.Those who want to give Touch Bar support a try ahead of the release of Chrome 58 can download Chrome Canary from Google. Version 56 of Google Chrome browser started rolling out to Macs today, bringing with it several new security enhancements, lower power consumption, and a performance boost.To begin with, Chrome now presents a clearer warning to users when a website requests password or credit card information over a non-HTTPS, unsecure connection. Chrome 56 is also the first version to make HTML5 the default standard for all users, with Flash content automatically blocked by the browser.Support for the HTTPS-secure Web Bluetooth API has also been included, allowing websites to connect to Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices like printers and lightbulbs for a more interactive online experience. Chrome 56 also brings 51 additional security fixes to the browser.According to a Google blog post, in the latest version of Chrome, changes to page reload behavior now produce reloads that are 28 percent faster and result in 60 percent less validation requests. The new behavior is said to maximize the reuse of cached resources which results in lower latency, power consumption, and data usage.
In addition, Chrome 56 brings built-in FLAC support for the first time, meaning users of the (non-iTunes compatible) audio format can listen to tracks from within the browser.Lastly, in an attempt to deal with resource hogging Chrome tabs, Google has introduced a new Browser Timer feature that automatically throttles background pages overstepping their allotted runtime allowance, provided they aren't playing media.Chrome 56 is available to download for Mac users now. Existing users can.