It’s no longer a question of whether China’s stock-market rally is a bubble, but when the bubble will burst.Want in on China’s A-shares? The devil is in the detailsInvestors, even at the best of times, have a habit of chasing after bright shiny objects and latching on like a fish to a lure. But in a sideways market, where everyone […]
Concerns over Greece’s latest effort to avoid a default weighed on U.S. financial markets Monday.The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 107.67 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,791.17. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index slid 9.68 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,084.43. The Nasdaq composite lost 21.13 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,029.97.Monday’s slide got started early after weekend negotiations between […]
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 […]
It is no secret that US healthcare corporations have been among, if not the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare: by “socializing” costs and spreading the reimbursement pool over the entire population in the form of a tax, pharmaceutical companies have been able to boost medical product and service costs to unprecedented levels with the help of complicit insurance companies who have […]
Related MEDEarnings Scheduled For May 7, 2015Morning Market LosersMedifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED), a leading United States manufacturer and provider of clinically proven weight-loss and healthy living products and programs, announced today that President & Chief Operating Officer, Margaret Sheetz, has adopted an individual stock trading plan. The trading plan is designed to comply with Rule 10b5-1 under the Securities Exchange […]
Immunogen (NASDAQ:IMGN)Shares of Immunogen soared as much as 68% on June 1, 2015 after the company reported positive results in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. There are about 21,290 cases of women who get ovarian cancer in the United States each year. The problem is that a lot of these patients that take chemotherapy treatments such as platinum and paclitaxel […]
Wikimedia CommonsStock investors are expected to tread carefully next week, as speculation about the timing of a US Federal Reserve interest rate hike adds to concerns about valuations.Since hitting record levels two weeks ago, the US stock market has struggled for direction, and investors said the next several sessions might prove no better. A run of better-than-expected economic figures failed […]
Benchmarks ended with modest gains on Wednesday, banking on positive economic reports and hopes of an imminent deal between Greece and its creditors. While private sector hiring picked up in May, trade deficit narrowed last month. European Central Bank’s commitment toward its bond buying program also lifted investor sentiment.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure […]
Trading tech: 5 stocks to buy
The “Fast Money” traders give you their 5 trades in the tech sector.
With Apple reportedly set to offer a new bond, an event that’s previously led to stock gains of more than 19 percent, “Fast Money” trader Guy Adami said now is the right time to buy Apple.”The genius of Apple is they make people […]
01Jun, 2015The Cure For Stock Market Fragmentation·The WSJ has an op-ed today titled “The Cure for Stock-Market Fragmentation: More Exchanges” which was written by Jonathan Macey (a Yale law professor) and David Swensen (Yale’s Chief Investment Officer). The article tackles what we believe is the number one problem with the US equity market: fragmentation. The authors sum up this problem in a […]
