Transocean: 3 Reasons to Buy?

One sector upgrade has gone a long way for offshore drillers Transocean (RIG), Ensco (ESV), Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO), Noble (NE) and Rowan (RDC) today, as the stocks have gained at least 5% in morning trading. The upgrades in question come from UBS analyst Angie Sedita and team, who upgrade the five offshore drillers to Buy from Neutral, and they have three reasons for their more optimistic outlook: They believe that demand will slowly increase in 2018, leading to more rigs getting put to work; they believe oil prices will remain around $50 a barrel; and that offshore-drilling stocks are still cheap. Investors have responded to the upgrades by sending shares of the five offshore drillers

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As companies try to understand consumer behavior, data scientists are in high demand. Boasting a median base salary of $110,000 and a job-satisfaction score of 4.4 out of 5, data scientist was ranked No. 1 on the “Best Jobs in America” list in 2016 and 2017 based on the number of job openings, salary and overall job satisfaction. It was followed by devops engineers ($110,000 a year) — which combines development, testing and operations — data engineers ($106,000 a year), tax managers ($110,000 a year) and analytics managers ($112,000 a year). And the No. 1 skill most in demand for data scientists? The programming language Python (sought after in 72% of Glassdoor job postings), followed by R (64%),

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U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba (BABA) are down more than 5% today. While we look into that, here’s some headlines regarding the e-commerce giant. The e-commerce giant is bringing its mobile payment service AliPay to Canada. -- CBCNews Lazada Group announces plans to expand its sales Alibaba products to three more countries in Southeast Asia. -- Reuters. Alibaba opens another of its Ikea-like stores called Home Times as its labors to grab a bigger share of China's $130 billion home furnishing market. -- China Money Network The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets exchange-traded fund (EEM) was down 1.6% in recent trading, while the iShares China Large-Cap (FXI) fell 2.6%, while the Guggenheim China Technology