Submitted by Daniel Drew of Dark BidThe Stock Market Is Disappearing In One Giant Leveraged BuyoutIt’s easy to find critics and doomsayers who predict that the next stock market crash is just around the corner. They could be right, but another possibility is that the stock market itself will disappear entirely.Anyone who is familiar with mergers and acquisitions knows what […]
We often hear that the stock market provides a good indication of the health of an economy. It may be time to rethink that notion.The best performing stock market in the world this year, up over 200%, is none other than Venezuela. The Caracas Index has more than quintupled over the past year and has doubled over the past two […]
On the pages of Investors Alley, Bret Jensen has a history of recommending biotech winners. Today, we’re following up on five of Bret’s most promising biotech recommendations that have staged big gains and could still be in the early innings of significant rallies. These stocks are still strong buys.The small biotech sector is one of the most volatile sectors of […]
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REUTERS/Valentin FlauraudStocks have been going nowhere for a while now.In a morning briefing, the Wall Street Journal noted that the Dow has traded in a 7.7% range through 2015, the narrowest for this point of year since 1992.The S&P 500 has also traded in a similarly tight range this year, and according to the NYSE’s […]
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The eye-popping volatility and explosive nature of China’s stock market lately has the world’s traders watching in awe.Business Insider’s David Scutt noted that China’s Shanghai Composite index crashed a breath-taking 11% in the past two days before recovering some of its losses.Still, the index is up 43% since the beginning of the year and up 134% from a year […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermidByron Wien.Stocks have catapulted through recovery.Among the things that have driven the expansion, a key factor has been the role of the Federal Reserve.In market commentary Wednesday, Blackstone’s Byron Wien pegs a number on this: $3 trillion.Even though we’ve seen company earnings more than double between 2009 and 2014, there has been concern that the market rally has largely […]
Benchmarks ended the last trading day of the week in the red following Janet Yellen’s comments that it would be appropriate to raise interest rates sometime this year. Yellen said the economy is well positioned to grow even if weak economic data had indicated the economy was not on a solid footing. Meanwhile, an increase in consumer price index raised […]
The big lesson of the past year is that the broad market can go nowhere for several quarters, while many individual stocks launch like rockets and make stock pickers far richer than “indexers.”If I were to drop some names that worked for us during the last six, “meat grinder” months, I would have to mention Ambarella, Skyworks Solutions, Synaptics, Acadia […]
Hewlett-PackardTechnology company Hewlett-Packard reports quarterly earnings on Thursday. Its stock has fallen more than 17 percent this year.HP has a chance to move higher after its earnings and could rise to $38 per share in the short term, said trader Guy Adami. It closed around $33 on Wednesday.But HP stock may not react well after earnings, and investors should stay […]
Stock Market Continues Defying Gravity, Dow New All Time HighStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 19, 2015 – 03:09 AM GMTBy: Nadeem_WalayatThe stock market continues to confound the doom merchants who have long since convinced themselves that another crash, collapse or bear market was always imminent. Which in many cases is not just for the whole of this year but for […]
