6A Identifying Opportunities

Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

This opportunity was found in the finance newspaper investopedia, the source of the information clearly analyzes and lays out the new the new regulatory trend of repealing Dodd Frank and the Wall Street Reform act that will allow many business and day time traders to begin trading using different regulatory features. The opportunity exists because the regulation as allowed many traders to trade on stock options and other derivatives previously blocked, the customers for such an opportunity would be the day traders as well as hedge funds and other financial investing firms. This opportunity would be easy to exploit for many investing professionals as it was done prior to 2008 crash and many of these trading practices are well known and utilized before 2008.  I saw this opportunity because I remembered my economic lesson regarding finances and how regulation goes down so investment and riskier financing practices go up. 

White House slaps 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods

Trump has added fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs to Mexico, Canada, and the EU.  This information was found after it being released by the United States Depart of Commerce and published on the CNN money financial newspaper, the newspaper highlights the purpose of the tariffs as well as the economic opportunities such as more manufacturing jobs for steel and also an increase in American made Steel and Aluminum being sold across the world. The most likely customers for these new tariffs are to be American consumers as it will be cheaper to buy American steel than imported steel from around the world, it will be harder to exploit this opportunity however because tariffs could make products more expensive thereby negating the reason to by these products. 

Alaska faces serious mental health care challenges. New regulations are unlikely to help.

 This information was found inside the Alaskan Financial Job report, after new regulations on the Health Care Sector for the state went into affect causing many doctors and insurances to provide health care to part time workers, this report detailed how and who would be affected by the new measures and clearly showed that due to regulations they're would be a greater need for more insurance companies and medical profession within the state of Alaska. They're will be significant growth within the medical sector of Alaska, although this opportunity will be hard to exploit because the regulations are very restrictive are not entirely clear on how it will affect current medical businesses. 

Cramer: This jobs report shows we have the 'perfect economy' for stocks

The information provided came from CNBC Financial Advisory and Host of the Investment Firm Cramer INC. The article detailed the new jobs report that came out on May 31, 2018 and the economic trend that reached unemployment to 3.8% the lowest since 1969. Allowing for greater economic stability but also an increase in business development as more banks will now be able to lend at lower interest rates, and the federal reserve keeping interest rates as they are, this will allow a greater number of business to expand and hire more people. the willing customers of this will be the American people, and it will be far easier to exploit this opportunity as it will be readily available for everyone.