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Stock Market News for May 04, 2015 – May 4, 2015 – Zacks.com

Markets made a strong comeback on Friday as investors added beaten down stocks to their portfolios. Moreover, General Motors and Ford posted better-than-expected U.S. auto sales numbers. Economic data was mixed. Each benchmarks gained at least 1%, limiting the weekly losses.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe […]

Warren Buffett: stock markets will be overpriced if rates rise …

Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett plays the ukulele in a video prior to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
Warren Buffett has warned that stock prices will appear expensive if interest rates increase from their current ultra-low levels.“If we get back to normal interest rates, stocks at these prices will look high,” said […]

Stock Market: Big Sell-Off Looming! | Brad Gudgeon | Safehaven.com

Stock Market: Big Sell-Off Looming!By: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, May 2, 2015SharePrintEmailLast time I wrote, I was expecting the stock market to fill the gap left on the SPX near 2081-82 by Friday last week. That was accomplished on Thursday when the SPX fell to 2077. What I saw on my indicators showed more a lack of buying than true […]

Stock Market Correction Time? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Correction Time?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 02, 2015 – 06:22 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroAnother month completed and the choppy activity continues. The market started the week at SPX 2118, gapped up on Monday and hit an all time high of 2126. Then it went into its recent choppy activity again until Thursday: 2095-2116-2097-2114-2091-2103-2079. Then gapped up hitting SPX 2108 […]

Will Stock Investors Ever Profit From a More Open Cuba? – NBC News

Cuba once had a stock market, the La Bolsa de Valores de la Habana, which lasted from the 1920s until 1959, when the Cuban revolution ended private ownership in the country. The Havana exchange was, in fact, one of the largest stock exchanges in Latin America.Now, as President Obama moves the U.S. closer to ending the 60-year-old trade embargo with […]

Stock Market News for May 01, 2015 – May 1, 2015 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks ended the last trading session of the month in the red dragged by losses in technology and biotechnology stocks. While, decline in Apple’s shares weighed on the technology sector, Celegen’s lower-than-expected quarterly revenues had a negative impact on biotech shares. Yesterday’s losses were broad based with all 10 sectors of the S&P 500 ending in the red and 27 […]

Obama's 2nd Term Much Like 1st for Stock Market | Tom McClellan …

We are now in the second term of President Obama’s term in office. While the Presidential Cycle Pattern shows similarities among all presidential terms in the stock market’s behavior, it is poorly appreciated how the 2nd term is often different from the first in its character.The lead chart this week compares the current behavior of the SP500 to an average […]

One chart sums up the frenzy in China's stock market

Mike Bird

May 1, 2015, 2:37 AM
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China’s stock market has exploded over the last year — over the last 16 months, in fact, the Shanghai Composite Index has more than doubled.Activity has been particularly frenetic in the first few months of this year, and stocks are up by 37% since January 1. That’s driven by an absolutely enormous wave of new […]

Optimism over stocks fizzles as market range-bound – MarketWatch

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Just waiting for the market to wake up…
Enthusiasm for stocks by retail investors—a group as diverse as the retired schoolteacher in Peoria to the day trader in Miami—is becoming progressively more subdued as the stock market remains mostly range-bound, according to a survey by the American Association of Individual Investors.Bullish sentiment, measured by the number of respondents who believe the […]