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When a company announces its quarterly financial results, it’ll sometimes offer a two sets of earnings.The first is GAAP earnings, which are based on generally accepted accounting principles. This is an industry standard that requires every industry and company to account for and report items in a uniform way.But some companies and industries believe GAAP earnings aren’t always representative […]
Just a quick post tonight highlighting two excellent looking charts. The first one is MSCC – Microsemi which is trading very close to its all time high. The other one is KYTH – Kythera Biopharmaceuticals which printed a new all time high today.What I like about both set-ups is that they offer a lot of pattern pressure and are not […]
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In the post-financial-crisis era, a lot of stock-market watchers have attributed the market’s gains to the Federal Reserve’s ultra-easy monetary policy.And these folks had some evidence. They observed that whenever the Fed discontinued a quantitative-easing (QE) program, volatility would spike and stock prices would fall. QE involved the monthly purchases of billions of dollars worth of bonds, an effort […]
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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 […]
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The Shanghai Composite stock index was slammed on Thursday, dropping by 6.5%.Over the last year, the Shanghai exchange has grown to be the third largest in the world.Here are the ten largest stock exchanges in the world by total market capitalization, as of April 2015, according to the World Federation of Exchanges’ monthly report. With a total end of […]
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Market complacency has re-emerged, warns Deutsche Bank’s David Bianco.His preferred measure of this is the PE / VIX ratio. (PE is short for price-earnings, a measure of stock market value. The VIX is the CBOE volatility index, a rough measure of “fear” in the stock market.)From Bianco’s note: “Our PE/VIX market emotion indicator climbed to 1.3 on S&P trailing […]
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There’s been a growing disconnect in stocks. Over the last few weeks, we’ve highlighted versions of the following chart from Bank of America Merril Lynch, which shows that US equity funds have seen massive outflows this year while stocks continue to climb to record highs. The big questions surrounding this disconnect relates to where the outflowing cash is being invested and who’s propping up […]
Stock Market Choppiness ContinuesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 09, 2015 – 07:01 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroAnother one of those choppy weeks. The market started the week at SPX 2108. Gapped up on Monday hitting SPX 2121, dropped to 2068 by Wednesday despite a gap up opening that day, then rallied to 2118 on Friday with also a gap up opening. Three […]
Janet Yellen has a crystal ball. And she sees trouble ahead…Yellen warned the investing public yesterday that stocks and bonds look risky in this ultra-low interest rate environment.But as you’ll see, Ms. Yellen’s crystal ball is notoriously foggy…and we might even make our money by ignoring her fortunetelling…“In a conversation with Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary […]
by Tiho Brkan, Short Side of LongChart 1: Equities recently suffered a technical reversal at record highs… Source: FinViz.comPrinter-friendly VersionEmail This Article
This weeks trading sessions in the US equities continue to show evidence of weakness, as majority of the US equity indices stalled at resistance levels. Couple of days ago, the S&P 500 opened at intraday record highs but closed with an outside […]
