Since everyone is talking about stock market crashes this week, let’s add some context here…Since the invention of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the turn of the last century, there have been eleven instances in which stocks declined by more than 35% from peak to trough, or what you would term a market crash. We’ll talk about how the […]
Share This articleHigh-frequency trading — the practice of making thousands of algorithmic stock trades per minute — is about to get a big boost in the USA. Anova, a company that specializes in deploying low-latency networks for stock trading, is completing an ultra-high-speed laser network between the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ. The link will be just […]
Chart courtesy of Tom McClellan of the McClellan Market Report (via Mark Hulbert)Hulbert notes that the chart “has been making the rounds on Wall Street.”On the other hand, Martin Armstrong predicts that a worsening economy – and bank deposit confiscation – in Europe will cause people to flood into American stocks as a “safe haven” for a couple of years.And […]
Stock Market Selloff Starts, New Bear Market?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 07, 2014 – 06:01 PM GMTBy: Zeal_LLC
Selling has finally returned to the US stock markets, short-circuiting their year-old levitation. This new downside action of the last couple weeks looks very different from anything witnessed in 2013. Is it just another minor and […]
Last week, the Austrailian Bureau of Labor Statistics released its December CPI data. The inflation number came in at .8 instead of .4, causing a lot of volatility on the AUD/USD forex pair. Speculators tried to grab some of the move that was expected right after the announcement. Others sat back and let the news come out and be over with, before […]
U.S. stocks are sliding and yields are plummeting as Treasuries surge following the release of much worse than expected manufacturing survey data from the Institute of Supply Management.The headline index from the ISM report tumbled to 51.3 from December’s 56.5 reading, indicative of a sharp slowdown in American manufacturing in January. The consensus Wall Street estimate called for a much […]
American stock markets are important to our economy and their efficiency and effectiveness impacts the broad economy. How can we build on their strengths and tackle areas of concern to achieve the best combination of economic efficiency and fairness? On January 30, the Economic Studies Program at Brookings held an event to discuss key current policy issues, including dark pools […]
Stock Market Nasty Down Day with Negative TechnicalsStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 30, 2014 – 05:48 AM GMTBy: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices suffered another nasty session, except for theTheTechTrader.com, which looked good and channeled up nicely. That includes some of the natural gas ETFs, particularly the UGAZ. But the day was an ugly one.The day started out […]
I would say there is no pleasing some people, but that statement is incomplete; a better assessment is that there is no pleasing people in general and people eager to shift responsibility in particular. Take the nonstop complaining by receivers of the dollar carry trade after the launch of QE in March 2009. Political leaders — a class well-versed in […]
Dismal manufacturing data from China dragged US benchmarks down to heavy losses yesterday. The Dow dipped for the third-straight day yesterday, which was also its worst session since August. None of the positive domestic corporate results could come to the markets’ rescue. Separately, initial claims rose and existing home sales came in below estimates. Financials were the biggest loser yesterday.For […]
