Stefanie Miller

U.S. investors are cheering the Senate vote on tax reform, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average higher by nearly 1 percent Monday. The Senate vote is a step in the right direction for investors hoping for a major tax cut earnings tailwind. On Monday, Height Securities analyst Stefanie Miller...

Investors with positions in the health care sector may be able to breathe easier, despite the Republicans’ failure to repeal Obamacare and President Donald Trump’s threats to withhold cost-sharing reduction payments from issuers. Events in the past week make it seem much more likely...

Height Securities released its latest analysis of the American Health Care Act Friday following the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring report. Height analyst Stefanie Miller believes the CBO’s scoring will not hinder Republican efforts to move the bill through to the President...

Americans and investors hoping for healthcare reform may have the strongest congressional motivator of all on their side: fear. If Congress doesn’t get a healthcare reform law passed by the summer recess, representatives will face the prospect of disgruntled constituents as they hold town...

Somewhere beyond the cacophony over President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is a steady, behind-the-scenes hum about healthcare, which won’t stay yesterday’s news for very long. Analysts at Height Securities, LLC say the U.S. Senate has to deal with healthcare...

Congress has until midnight on Friday night to avoid a partial government shutdown by passing a spending bill to fund government operations. While most investors are hoping to avoid the headache of a shutdown, at least one class of investors may be hoping negotiations continue to be hard-fought....

With a partial government shutdown on the line, Congress and the White House aim to work out kinks in the spending bill before the continuing resolution expires April 29. Weighing critical negotiations surrounding the Mexican border wall, military funding and Cost-Sharing Reduction payments, Height...

Following a futile Tuesday-night attempt to unite on ACA repeal strategy, Vice President Mike Pence and House Republicans convened again Wednesday to hash out a deal. But Height Securities analysts Andrew Parmentier and Stefanie Miller weren't hopeful for a resolution. “We think chances...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been dragged into a hushed racketeering lawsuit involving fake cigarettes, a secret bank account and alleged sting operations. According to the U.S. Tobacco Cooperative Inc., one former employee and contractor cheated nearly 700 coop...