REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci FA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.We’re Far From Euphoria (MarketMinder) Stocks had a record year in 2013, with the S&P 500 returning 30%. Now many wonder if the market looks frothy and if we’re overdue for a correction. “It’s been a long time since […]
Business Insider/Matthew Boesler (data from E*TRADE)The stock market crash of 2008 has for many years caused an aversion to stocks among retail investors, but they may finally be coming back after a 188% run-up from the March 2009 lows.
Daily average revenue trades (DARTs) at leading online brokerage E*TRADE have been trending up since bottoming out in mid-2012, but in January, […]
MarketWatch/Mark HulbertThe 1929 chart is making the rounds again.
You’ve probably seen this chart, which compares the market’s gains over the last year to those in 1929, leading up to the crash.Noted market-timer Tom DeMark has been talking about it.So too, apparently, has Doug Kass, according to Mark Hulbert, a columnist at MarketWatch.”In an email earlier this week, Kass wrote of […]
It’s safe to say 2013 turned out better than expected for the stock market.In the year to date, the S&P 500 index is up over 27%.As the chart below from options guru Jared Woodard of Condor Options illustrates, 2013 was the first year in a long time that the market was able to outperform the upper end of the range […]
