Market Cycles: Trouble Ahead In The Stock MarketGary Christenson |April 2, 2015| Category: InvestingTags: stock marketThe S&P 500 Index has been levitated for 6 years by easy money, low interest rates, buy backs of corporate stock, and so much more.Can it rally for another 6 years?I doubt it.Examine the following log scale monthly chart of the S&P.Items to note:Vertical blue […]
shuttyConfounded by this wacky stock market? You’re not alone.Robert Shiller, the 69-year-old acclaimed economist who helped create the Case-Shiller home-price index, is having a tough time deciphering this U.S. stock market too.The 2013 Nobel laureate and Yale University economics professor told MarketWatch that this volatile, post-financial-crisis market, in which interest rates have been at or near zero since 2008, is […]
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 […]
Benchmarks ended the first trading session of the second quarter in the red on weak economic data. Both private payrolls and manufacturing data were weaker than anticipated. The S&P 500 closed below its 50-day moving average, with 7 out of 10 S&P 500 sectors ending in the red. The Dow also witnessed more than two-third of its 30 components ending […]
Recognized as the world’s single biggest attraction for high rollers at the gambling tables, Macau is the only location in the People’s Republic of China where betting on the roll of the dice is legal. Macau is just a short ferry ride from Hong Kong, through which many mainlanders travel to get to the casinos. As such, the former Portuguese […]
By Michael Snyder, on April 1st, 2015The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall. By any objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble territory. Anyone should be able to see this – all you have to do is look at the charts. Sadly, most of us never seem to learn from history. Most of us […]
Weakness in healthcare, industrial and energy shares dragged benchmarks significantly lower on Tuesday. The energy sector took a beating after oil prices dropped. Yesterday’s decline pulled the Dow into the red for the quarter, while S&P 500 managed meager gains.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow […]
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Has the U.S. stock market been strong or weak so far in 2015? As the above three charts from the excellent FinViz site indicate, the answer very much depends on the segment of the market you’ve been following and trading.With respect to stock sectors, consumer discretionary and healthcare shares have performed well. Note the strength in housing stocks (XHB) and […]
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FinVizLate Tuesday in the US, the bottom fell out of US stock market futures contracts.S&P 500 futures were down by as much as 1.3% at about 9 p.m. ET. These particular futures contracts are among the most widely traded securities in the world.It’s also worth noting that this isn’t like Twitter or some other single […]
