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Making Sense of the Stock Market Drops in Relation to Venture …

If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation.

It was a nerve racking morning.
My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk

And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous. And if that’s what […]

China stock market panic shows what happens when stimulants …

US traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the start of the trading following ‘Black Monday’ in China. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
Related: Asian stock markets fall again after Wall Street slump – live
Financial markets have gone cold turkey. For the past seven years, they have been given regular doses of strong and dangerous narcotics. The threat […]

Bad news: Even after panic, stocks aren’t cheap

Bad news: Even after panic, stocks aren’t cheapMonday, August 24th, 2015 | Posted by Michael JonesThe most famous minder of valuations, Robert Shiller, said Friday morning on CNBC that “valuations are high, quite high by historical standards. It’s only been a few other episodes in U.S. history when they’ve been this high.”Shiller’s reference point for valuations is not the forward […]

How low could stocks go? – Business Insider

Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesThe stock-market tumble of the past week has reminded everyone that stock prices also go down.So this seems a good time to remind everyone that stock prices could go down a lot further. In fact, stock prices have to go down a lot further — or, at least, have to stay generally flat for a very long time […]

China's stock market is a high stakes game of 'chicken' – Business …

REUTERS/China DailyA Chinese soldier trains a dog by skipping rope at a military base in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province January 28, 2006.See Also6 reasons China’s stock market selloff doesn’t matter for the global economyMARK MOBIUS: China is nearing a capitulation pointChina’s government still has options to steer its stock marketWatching the high-stakes melodrama that has unfolded in the Chinese […]

Why Investors are Now Searching Out Active Funds

by Joshua Brown, The Reformed BrokerThe pendulum always swings too far in both directions. I would tell you the ratio of passive fund inflows to active fund inflows over the last few years but I can’t because the latter category would be a negative integer.Instead, I’ll just tell you that almost 100 cents of every dollar has gone into index […]

Greece Passes The Stress Baton To China

At the risk of being considered a Pollyanna or a perma bull, of which I’m neither, I think we are going up hard soon.  Now I know said the technicals were in the bulls favor after yesterdays bullish reversal, and they were, but then the most advertised and telegraphed Black Swan happened….China.Greece is still front and center and the NYSE […]

Stock trading closed on NYSE after glitch caused major outage – as …

Outside, I take in the scene: street preachers denouncing Gnosticism, a lone banker trying to garrote himself with ticket tape, and the Bull – that gold, beautiful bull – running through the streets like Zeus. I chase after it for a quote, but, like the dubious financial transactions powered by super-compressors, it is too quick.Smoke. Weeping. Screams.I hire now-former JP […]

A Desperate China Cuts Key Policy Rates After Stock Market Crash …

On May 10, China cut its benchmark lending rate for the third time since November. The move came just a few days after several brokerages tightened margin requirements, which triggered a 4% decline in Chinese stocks.At the time, we noted that the PBoC had done something similar not even a month prior, when in April, the central bank slashed the […]

Finding The Next Blockbuster Biotech Stock – ETF Daily News

Kyle Anderson: Spending on cancer treatment has been skyrocketing globally. According to the IMS Institute of Health, spending on cancer topped $100 billion globally in 2014. That was a 10% increase from 2013.That’s why many biotech stocks tied to cancer treatments have seen triple-digit gains in the last two years.Have you ever wondered how billionaires continue to get RICHER, while the rest of […]