Last week we presented China’s latest bazooka in its ongoing attempt to halt its plunging market (apparently threats to arrest sellers were insufficient) – China Securities Finance Corp. As a subsidiary of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, this meant that “China’s central bank is now underwriting brokerages’ margin lending businesses” and that “the PBoC is now in the business of […]
Submitted by Dana Lyons,When we posted yesterday’s piece on the stock market’s weak internals (If Beauty’s On The Inside, This Market Wins The Ugly Contest), we weren’t sure if things could get any worse – and by how much – with the major averages still able to hold near 52-week highs. Well, the answers were “yes” and “a lot”. In […]
flickr via bartolomeo perrottaThe stock market is disappearing. In an afternoon email to clients, Rich Barry at the NYSE wrote:Buyback factoid: ~20% of S&P 500 companies have reduced their share count by at least 4% year-over-year in each of the last five quarters(!!), and that appears to be continuing into Q2. As of [Tuesday] night, 92 companies in the S&P have reported […]
PhotoInvestors following the ups and downs of the stock markets at a brokerage house in Beijing.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York TimesThe symptoms, medical experts say, appear suddenly and often linger for months: insomnia, irritability, depression and an obsession with tracking stock prices.Amid the recent turmoil in China’s stock markets, as values plummeted from all-time highs, doctors have reported […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermidTwitter CEO Dick Costolo, right, celebrates the Twitter IPO with Twitter founders, from left, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, November 7, 2013.The European Central Bank (ECB) just put out an interesting study looking at whether Twitter and Google can be used to predict stock market […]
In light of the Chinese, and also Japanese and US governments’ direct interference in their stock and bond markets, the following historical reminders may be in order:
On May 26, 1896, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of a few companies at the time, was first published. Mr. Charles H. Dow, the driving force behind it, predicted that these companies, […]
Anacor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ANAC)On Monday July 13, 2015 shares of Anacor went up 55%, closing around $131.93 per share after the company announced positive phase 3 results in patients who have atopic dermatitis. There were two phase 3 trials that were testing Anacor’s drug, Crisaborole, for these patients with atopic dermatitis — also known as Eczema. The company wanted to see […]
Bill Pugliano/GettyWarren BuffettThe Oracle of Omaha is facing some opposition.In a note to clients on Monday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Savita Subramanian wrote that Warren Buffett’s favorite metric of long-term value “may have limited utility.”The market cap to GDP ratio, which once characterized as the “single best measure” of value, is used to determine whether the stock market is […]
Nearly two months after President Muhammadu Buhari took over the administration of Nigeria, investors in the nation’s stock market have lost over N1.032 trillion. Stakeholders have attributed the development to slow pace of governance, lack of policy direction, high political risk, feud in the federal legislature, no ministerial appointment, amongst others.The recent drop in the Nigerian stock market indicators also […]
The VAT rose from 13% to 23%, making some meats, cooking oils other than olive oil, cocoa, vinegar, salt, flowers, firewood, fertilizer, insecticides, sanitary towels and other basics all more expensive.Services hit by the new VAT increases include restaurants and cafes, funeral parlors, taxis, cramming and tutorial schools very popular with Greek students seeking to make up for the deficiencies […]
