Bespoke Investment Group is out with an informative table showing the performance of stock markets in 75 countries, ranked by year-to-date performance. In pole position: Dubai, which has gained more than 50% on the year. Qatar, Argentina, and Bulgaria follow. In last place: Japan and Russia, which have both fallen more than 13%. You also may want to avoid Jamaican-listed […]
Emil Protalinski15 April ’14, 11:13pm FollowGoogle today expanded its Google Finance product to cover stocks in Spain, Poland, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina. As a result, you can now easily follow the performance of indices, stock price movements, trading volumes, and so on for the stock market in those five countries with just a simple Google search.Today’s addition means […]
The S&P 500 has just hit a new all-time high at 1851.55 this morning.The previous peak was on January 15, when the index hit 1850.84. After that, the market fell 6% through February 3. Since then, it has surged higher, erasing all of those losses and then some.This morning, the index is up 0.8%, trading above 1851.The chart below shows […]
Fears over a growing emerging market crisis have hit stocks hard in the past month, but BMO Capital Markets is telling investors to relax.“To be sure, U.S. markets are likely to behave much better with emerging market strength, but we strongly disagree with the notion that higher U.S. stock prices require emerging market participation,” said Brian Belski, BMO’s chief investment […]
A screen showing the Nikkei 225 Stock Average in Tokyo, Japan, as it slid earlier today. Photograph: KIYOSHI OTA/EPAGood morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of events across the financial markets, the global economy, the business world and the eurozone.Asian markets have taken a pummelling overnight as the share rout which began last week hit its largest stock exchanges. […]
When I first offered a warning to investors on New Year’s Eve, it was not plainly obvious what was about to happen. Today, pundits are pulling out every possible excuse for why stocks are getting trashed. It’s not at all because of Turkey or Argentina, but the fringes of risk, including emerging markets, are instead feeling it now because of […]
Turkish lira bills at a currency exchange office in Istanbul. Turkish lira hit record lows despite the central bank spending an estimated £1bn to prop up the curerency’s value during the day. Photograph: Murad Sezer/REUTERSA series of political scandals and accusations of mismanagement in some of the world’s major developing economies triggered turmoil on international stock exchanges on Friday.The FTSE […]
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Adding to the sour mood was a sell off in emerging markets, with some impacted by the broader sell off, such as Mexico and Chile, and others reeling on their own stories, like Argentina, Turkey and Brazil. Brazil was impacted by China but also negative comments from Pimco on its finances. (Read more: Brazil’s Rousseff tries to woo […]
Originally published January 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM | Page modified January 25, 2014 at 2:19 AM
Fear is back in the market.Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy-money policies in the United States and Europe. They’re also fretting over country-specific troubles around the world […]
