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Euro zone stock market investors: “Crisis? What crisis?” | MacroScope

European shares will be the best performers next year, according to the latest Reuters poll of more than 350 strategists, analysts and fund managers. Frankfurt’s DAX is already up nearly 20 percent this year and is forecast to rally another 10 percent in 2014.But the experts in foreign exchange that Reuters surveys each month are also saying that the euro, […]

Stocks lower after hitting record; banks in focus | Business …

Originally published December 10, 2013 at 7:17 AM | Page modified December 11, 2013 at 6:27 AM

NEW YORK — Stocks fell modestly Tuesday as investors took a breather from a market that notched yet another record high the day before.The market has hit several all-time highs in recent months, but with the holiday season and end of the […]

Here's The Stock Market Chart The Bears Are … – Business Insider

Business Insider/Matthew Boesler, data from BloombergFriday, the S&P 500 index snapped a five-day losing streak, and today, it’s trading just five points shy of its all-time high at 1813.
The index is now up more than 28% in the year to date, and many market strategists are sanguine on the prospects for stocks in the remaining few weeks of the year […]

Stock Market Forecast For 2014 :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Forecast For 2014

Companies / Stock Markets 2014Dec 09, 2013 – 10:14 AM GMTBy: Money_Morning

Michael A. Robinson writes: If you’ve been following our twice weekly conversations here at Strategic Tech Investor, you know that I’m very bullish about technology stocks.But I want to let you in on a little secret […]

Stock market jumps after strong jobs report | CharlotteObserver.com

NEW YORK Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market focused investors on the nation’s improving economy instead of concerns about the Federal Reserve’s […]

Stock market jumps after strong jobs report … – The Seattle Times

Originally published December 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM | Page modified December 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM

NEW YORK — Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market […]

Canadian stock returns to lag U.S. for fourth consecutive year: BMO …

Canadian stock investors are in store for “low-single-digit price returns” in 2014, says a new report from BMO Capital Markets.The muted returns will mark the fourth-straight year that Canadian stocks will underperform their U.S. counterparts, said chief investment strategist Brian Belski.“As the broader de-leveraging of emerging markets and Europe proceeds, coupled with slow grind of over-capacity of metals and commodities […]

'Hackathon' teaches Chicago high school students the social power …

Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference […]