shuttyConfounded by this wacky stock market? You’re not alone.Robert Shiller, the 69-year-old acclaimed economist who helped create the Case-Shiller home-price index, is having a tough time deciphering this U.S. stock market too.The 2013 Nobel laureate and Yale University economics professor told MarketWatch that this volatile, post-financial-crisis market, in which interest rates have been at or near zero since 2008, is […]
Every month, we review the latest BAML survey of global fund managers. Among the various ways of measuring investor sentiment, this is one of the better ones as the results reflect how managers are allocated in various asset classes. These managers oversee a combined $600b in assets.The data should be viewed mostly from a contrarian perspective; that is, when equities […]
I want to trade stocks online. I already prepared the things needed to use in buying and selling stocks online. But, I still in doubt whether I will continue my plan to trade stocks online or not. I need your advice. I want to know if online stock trading is really risky. Thank you for teaching us financial literacy.A reader […]
I want to trade stocks online. I already prepared the things needed to use in buying and selling stocks online. But, I still in doubt whether I will continue my plan to trade stocks online or not. I need your advice. I want to know if online stock trading is really risky. Thank you for teaching us financial literacy.A reader […]
View gallery.This article is written by Christian Tharp, the author of 5 Star Trading.The S&P 500 hit its last all-time high back at the end of 2014, and has chopped lower since.The Nasdaq has fared a bit better over that stretch, but the index still has yet to hit a new bull market high since the end of December.Through this period […]
This article is written by Christian Tharp, the author of 5 Star Trading.The S&P 500 hit its last all-time high back at the end of 2014, and has chopped lower since.The Nasdaq has fared a bit better over that stretch, but the index still has yet to hit a new bull market high since the end of December.Through this period […]
Indexes continue to struggle and it remains a period to be cautious. Unlike the prior 2 sessions when we saw serious spikes in the premarket, today the market was down severely premarket and that weakness continued all day until mid afternoon when some buyers showed up to relieve some of the pressure. Still the S&P 500 fell 0.58% and the […]
We had some technical difficulties tonight so no market recap video today but I posted an idea session last night where we looked at some recent winners to see which names might be good ideas go forward, on my Ticker.tv channel, Mark333.Indexes opened down as oil weighed, and stayed weak all day in a quite miserable session. Investors have become […]
–A+Morgan Stanley fined $4M for allowing rogue Apple stock tradesBy Mikey CampbellWednesday, December 10, 2014, 05:02 pm PT (08:02 pm ET)Investment bank Morgan Stanley on Wednesday agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $4 million in fines for violating the market access rule when it allowed a rogue trader to fraudulently purchase some $1 billion of Apple stock […]
There’s an endless parade of articles and pundits today discussing the historical monthly returns of September. It’s not a very good month historically. But we see this stuff every few months. In January the media will run with the “January effect”. Then in May they’ll pump the “sell in May” story. Then in September they’ll pump the scary September stories. Then […]
