Signs of a weak holiday shopping season and apprehensions over the central bank trimming its economic stimulus plan dragged benchmarks into the red on Tuesday. Profit booking also turned out to be a deterrent for the markets. The Dow and S&P 500 extended their losing streak into a third day. These losses come after benchmarks recorded eight consecutive weeks of […]
Canadian stock investors are in store for “low-single-digit price returns” in 2014, says a new report from BMO Capital Markets.The muted returns will mark the fourth-straight year that Canadian stocks will underperform their U.S. counterparts, said chief investment strategist Brian Belski.“As the broader de-leveraging of emerging markets and Europe proceeds, coupled with slow grind of over-capacity of metals and commodities […]
No doubt you heard about how the Obama campaign ran circles around Romney in the digital sphere last year. There was another less-sexy, sub-category of the digital advantage, which was that the Obama campaign used data-crunching to get a lot more ads per dollar than the Romney campaign. This was all really cool if you were an Obama […]
Facebook (FB) has been on quite a run in 2013, up 100% from its summer lows. But after peaking at almost $55 a share in October, FB stock is fading fast.And given some of the sentiment lately, Facebook stock could remain under pressure for some time.On the sentiment front, big-time investors are starting to sour on this social media giant. […]
Cyprus Crisis Stock Market Investing in Action
Stock-Markets / European Stock MarketsNov 11, 2013 – 05:17 PM GMTBy: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, International ManStocks in Cyprus Are Down 98%—Time to Start Edging In?Readers who have been with us for a while know that I’ve been hinting at the project Doug Casey and I have been […]
Sign up for the Executive Summary email briefing to get the news delivered straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.Markets: By the numbersMonday’s North American closeTSX13,358.39 -19.94 -0.15%Dow Jones15,783.10 +21.32 +0.14%S&P 5001,771.89 +1.28 +0.07%Nasdaq3,919.79 +0.56 +0.01%Decent jobs growth, encouraging words from central bank officials and healthy earnings numbers were enough to push North American stock markets strongly higher yet again last week.The question […]
L&L Energy Inc. (LLEN), a US-based coal producer, has seen phenomenal growth despite the challenging environment for American coal producers in the past two years. Year-to-date, LLEN shares have gained more than 41%, while hordes of American coal producers got hammered. But this is not the end of the LLEN play – this stock has a lot more firepower left […]
