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FILE – In this July 24, 2014 file photo, Facebook staff members attend the opening ceremony of their new office in Hong Kong. The world’s biggest online social network knocked Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market.The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.While the switch is […]
Stocks are finally breaking out!The Russell 2000 small-cap index? Check. Midcap stocks? Double check. Blistering biotechs? Triple check. In fact, The Biotech iShares continued to reach for new highs Monday after last week’s jolt.There are still some weak spots out there, like utilities. But if you’re taking the time to zero-in on the strongest stocks in the strongest sectors, you’re […]
Weekend Market VIDEO: Apple, Stocks to Watch, and BiotechPosted by Joe Fahmy
on June 21st, 2015
Share on StockTwitsIn the following video, I review the general market and some growth stocks on my watch list. As always, if any of these stocks or the market breaks down, make sure to keep a loss cutting discipline in place. The purpose of this video […]
Since the beginning of this year the markets have primarily treaded water. The primary support for the bulls has been continued acknowledgement by the Fed on an inability to remove accommodative policy by raising interest rates. (Which should make you question what happens the first time they do.) The bears have been feasting on weak economic data and deteriorating fundamentals. […]
–A+Fitbit makes stock market debut, share price jumps by more than 50%By AppleInsider StaffThursday, June 18, 2015, 11:16 am PT (02:16 pm ET)Wearable fitness tracker firm Fitbit, which competes with the Apple Watch with its own hardware, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, and investors promptly drove the company’s share price up by more than 50 percent […]
Chinese stock market bubble hits record $6.5tn – BloombergPublished time: June 10, 2015 10:19Get short URLReuters / Aly SongTagsChina, Markets, TradeThe Chinese stock market has boomed to a value of $6.5 trillion in the last year, which could buy Apple 8 times over and fund 65 Asian Infrastructure Investment Banks, as Bloomberg research shows. The rally is arguably dangerous as […]
For one top technician, there are only two names that matter to the market right now: Apple and biotech.”The correlation between Apple and biotech is outstanding,” technical analyst Carter Worth said Friday on CNBC’s “Options Action.” In what he’s dubbing the “king and queen” of the market, Worth said, “The way the two act, you’d think nothing else in the […]
The most common debate amongst traders is when the prolonged uptrend across the financial markets will come to an end. After such a long run, it is reasonable to believe that the trend is nearing overbought levels and could be preparing to make a sudden reversal, but based on the weekly chart of the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI), […]
Philosophical Economics wrote a terrific post yesterday about how the “Winner take all” economy is affecting companies and the competitive environment. He observed that net margins have been elevated in the last few years. Generally, when margins are high, an industry attracts new entrants who come in and eventually drive down margins. One explanation advanced is that in a “winner […]
