Don’t miss the chance to talk to expert options, forex and equity traders on this week’s #PreMarket Prep!Be sure to tune in at 8:00 a.m. EST Monday-Friday here to interact with our veteran traders, market technicians and money managers that come on the show.Monday, June 22, 8:20 a.m.Paul La Monica (@LaMonicaBuzz), Digital Correspondent at CNNMoneyPaul La Monica writes daily about […]
The Shanghai Composite and Shenzhen A Share stock markets had bad weeks. Really bad weeks. Both lost more than 10% of their market value, and each fell about 6% in Friday’s trading alone. The catalyst for this week’s volatility? Queaziness from abroad (paywall).Bloomberg had a prescient story about the Chinese equity bubble two days ago (if you ignore that bubble […]
Do not worry… “it’s contained”From The FOMC Statement, Gold is 1st, Bonds 2nd, and Stocks 3rd…and on the week the same picture…WEAK CLOSE…Trannies remain the big squeeze post-FOMC winner but Dow is the laggard…On the week, however, Trannies lagged and ended the week red (down 4 of the last 5 weeks) as Small Caps (dominated by Biotech ‘no brainers’) led […]
MSCI? We don’t need no friggin MSCI.
The decision by MSCI, the giant indexing company, to not include Chinese mainland A-shares in its emerging-market benchmark last Tuesday had little effect on the market. Neither did the huge outflows by foreign investors.
The Shanghai Composite Index climbed 2.9% last week to its highest level since January 2008. It also pushed the Chinese stock […]
Saudi Arabia opens $590bn stock market to foreignersPublished time: June 15, 2015 15:14Get short URLReuters / Faisal Al NasserTagsInvestment, Markets, Saudi ArabiaStarting Monday Saudi Arabia is giving foreign investment institutions access to one of the world’s most-restricted stock markets in an effort to diversify its capital base, in a country which gets 90 percent of its revenue from oil.Until Monday […]
China’s Stock Market Value Tops $10 Trillion for First TimeLast updated 20:18, June 14 2015
China’s stock market has passed the $10 trillion milestone for the first time.
The value of Chinese stocks rose above $10 trillion for the first time, the latest milestone for the nation’s world-beating rally.
Companies with a primary listing in China are valued at $10.05 trillion, an increase […]
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The eye-popping volatility and explosive nature of China’s stock market lately has the world’s traders watching in awe.Business Insider’s David Scutt noted that China’s Shanghai Composite index crashed a breath-taking 11% in the past two days before recovering some of its losses.Still, the index is up 43% since the beginning of the year and up 134% from a year […]
By Justin Fox, Bloomberg ViewEvery once in a while a business journalist notices how well Danaher Corp. has performed during the past few decades, and feels compelled to remark upon it. Well, now I’ve noticed, and I guess the most appropriate remark is, “wow.” Or maybe “jeepers.”Tektronix dealDanaher paid nearly $3 billion for Washington-County based Tektronix in 2007. The deal’s […]
Are stocks disconnected from reality? Probably, according to Tobin’s Q, a rather elegant way to assess equity valuations developed by the late Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist James Tobin. Put simply, Tobin’s Q compares the total value of stock prices with the value of underlying assets such as plants, inventory, and equipment (i.e. replacement costs). Add up the value of the […]
Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWilliam McNabb, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Vanguard GroupHe also believes index funds will continue to outperform actively managed funds. From 2007 to 2014, index funds saw inflows of $1 trillion, while actively managed funds saw outflows of $659 billion.”It’s the triumph of low-cost investing, and I do think that’s a secular […]
