Stock Market About to Hit Sudden Air Pocket!By: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, Apr 11, 2015SharePrintEmailI warned back a few days ago that the market looked tired. We got a few more points since then as the FED minutes on Wednesday help fuel the market higher. The set up is there for another “sudden 2% drop” like we had on Mar […]
Biotech investors have been here before.
Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%.
And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell off we saw in the sector […]
I’ve taken some flak recently for my persistently bearish views of the stock market over the past year. Rightfully so. I’ve been dead wrong. And with a record level of bulls it should come as no surprise that they’d like gloat.But I’d like to make a few things clear. First, I’m not a perma-bear. Far from it. I was rip-snorting bullish […]
Over the course of this long bull market, biotech stocks have been very, very good for their owners. Perhaps too good. Investors have shown such rabid enthusiasm for biotechs—especially small, unproven companies that have yet to bring a drug to market—that some observers are using another b word to describe the high-flying sector: bubble.See Also: 8 Stocks Under $10 Worth […]
Published: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:27 a.m.
With the nation’s equities markets roiling with volatility these days, some investors are getting nervous. Fueling those concerns are the prospect of an increase in interest rates, sluggish gross domestic product growth and global concerns from the Eurozone to the Middle East. But the view […]
At the recent Israel Investment Seminar in New York, Yossi Beinart, head of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, spoke of plans to attract investors, including a move to allow Israeli companies to adopt Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures, or GAAP.In addition, the exchange, in conjunction with BlueStar Indexes, announced the TASE-BlueStar Israel Global Technology Index, which will track 57 major technology […]
Online retail trading surged 239 percent to Bt1 trillion ($30.72 billion) in February from a year earlier, the latest available data from the stock exchange shows. That was the biggest increase since March 2010. Those transactions account for over 40 percent of total trading volumes, up from 27 per cent in 2012. That ratio exceeds even Hong Kong, where retail […]
Wikimedia CommonsIf you were only looking at the stock market, which remains near record-high levels, then you’d have no idea that many companies are warning up front that the first three months of the year were worse than expected.”For Q1 2015, 85 companies in the S&P 500 have issued negative EPS guidance and 16 companies have issued positive EPS guidance,” […]
Is The Stock Market On The Verge Of Collapse?March 31st, 2015Are we watching a replay of the last financial crisis? Over the past six months, the price of oil has collapsed, the U.S. dollar has soared, and a whole bunch of other patterns that we witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are repeating once again. But what we have not […]
Three months into the new year and the broad U.S. equity indices have made limited progress to the upside. The Nasdaq composite lead by the healthcare/biotech and select semiconductor sectors has risen 3.28%, while the S&P 500 is essentially flat and the DJIA has actually declined six tenths of 1 percent.If you’ve been nimble and picked the right stocks in […]
