Guest post written byPaul KarosPaul Karos is a senior portfolio manager at Minneapolis-based Whitebox Advisors, which manages over $4 billion in hedge and mutual funds.Health care stocks have enjoyed a persistent bid in the markets over the past three years. Health care was second best performing sector in the S&P 500 during the choppy markets of 2014 (up 23%, […]
Chapter 4: The Explosive Bubbles of the Early 2000s1. The Internet BubbleMost bubbles have been associated with some new technology (as in the tronics and biotech booms) or with some new business opportunity (as when the opening of profitable new trade opportunities spawned the South Sea Bubble). The Internet was associated with both: it represented a new technology, and it […]
Stock Market Happy HolidaysStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Dec 27, 2014 – 08:07 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe week started at SPX 2071. On Monday the market rallied to the previous all time high at SPX 2079. Then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday it made higher highs, reaching SPX 2093. For the week the SPX/DOW gained 1.15%, the NDX/NAZ gained 0.85%, and the […]
Markets ended modestly higher on Wednesday’s abbreviated trading session banking on initial claims dropping to a seven-week low and gains in biotechs. The Dow hit a record high for the 37th session and Nasdaq also ended in the green. However, the S&P 500 erased its initial gains and a late selloff dragged the benchmark into the red.For a look at […]
Market Wrap-up for Nov. 10 – 3 Sectors to Watch This WeekBy Tom Reese|November 10th, 2014
RSSA few key sectors will likely dominate the market action this week, playing a bigger-than-usual role in pushing the averages higher or lower. Here’s what investors should look out for in the coming days.1. How Will Oil Companies Hold Up?The per-barrel price of oil […]
Editor’s note: Nuria Oliver is a scientific director at Telefonica looking at how the use of big data can help to fight pandemics such as Ebola and bird flu.Last year, I gave a talk at WIRED 2013 on how anonymous and aggregated mobile phone data can be used to understand and combat the spread of infectious diseases. I described a study that we […]
3 Biotech Stocks for Earnings Beats this SeasonEven a quarter back, tax inversion deals were quite a rage among most of the U.S. based biotech firms. However, these tax dodging strategies have fallen apart ever since the U.S. Department of Treasury issued a notice related to tax inversion deals. We have seen AbbVie Inc. ( ABBV ) calling off its […]
John Hussman, Hussman FundsStart of a crash?See Also3 Things To Know About ETFsDaymond John Reveals What It’s Like Being A ‘Shark Tank’ Investor4 Things To Consider In A Changing Bond MarketFund manager John Hussman of the Hussman Funds has been one of the most vocal bears on Wall Street for the past few years.The market has continued to rise strongly […]
Benchmarks settled in the green on Friday after promising economic numbers negated overseas tensions. Encouraging economic data on consumer sentiment and Chicago-area business conditions overshadowed concerns related to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and increased terror-threat level in the United Kingdom. Friday’s gains helped the S&P 500 close at a record high. The index finished above the 2k mark for the third […]
Don’t Get Ruined by These 10 Popular Stock Market Investment Myths Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 29, 2014 – 05:24 PM GMTBy: EWI
Interest rates, oil prices, earnings, GDP, wars, terrorist attacks, inflation, monetary policy, etc. — NONE have a reliable effect on the stock market
You may remember that during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, […]
