NEW YORK (AP) — Fear that Greece could default on its debt and abandon the euro rattled global financial markets Friday.News that negotiations between Greece and its international lenders are making little progress sent European stock markets down sharply, and the selling spread across the Atlantic. By the close of U.S. trading, stocks across industries were lower, with four of […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Stock markets in China and Hong Kong extended gains on Friday on expectations of further policy easing, but other stock markets in the region were subdued.KEEPING SCORE: Shanghai Composite index gained 1.1 percent to 4,241.57 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.3 percent to 27,821.62. South Korea’s Kospi inched up 0.1 percent at 2,141.53. Japan’s […]
Related FSLRBy 2016, All Solar Investors Will Know The Name ‘8point3’New ETF From BlackRock And EdelmanEnergy Yieldcos On The Rise(Investor’s Business Daily)Related RGSEEarnings Scheduled For March 31, 2015SolarCity, Sunedison Earnings Drag Down Solar SectorShort sellers shied away again from many of the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. The most significant downswings in […]
REUTERS/Bobby Yip Ding Biyan, Chairman and Executive Director of Huisheng International Holdings Ltd, a regional pork producer in China’s southern Hunan province, poses beside a gong during the debut of the company at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange February 28, 2014.Hong Kong stocks are having a pretty amazing run right now.The Hang Seng climbed another 0.84% on Friday, capping off […]
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Shares of $875 million biotech company Ocular Therapeutix were down as much as 30% in after hours trade on Monday after the company reported clinical trial results that disappointed. The company announced Monday that topline data for its lead drug candidate, a treatment for ocular inflammation following cataract surgery, met one of its two primary endpoints. The company said both endpoints needed […]
Recognized as the world’s single biggest attraction for high rollers at the gambling tables, Macau is the only location in the People’s Republic of China where betting on the roll of the dice is legal. Macau is just a short ferry ride from Hong Kong, through which many mainlanders travel to get to the casinos. As such, the former Portuguese […]
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FinVizLate Tuesday in the US, the bottom fell out of US stock market futures contracts.S&P 500 futures were down by as much as 1.3% at about 9 p.m. ET. These particular futures contracts are among the most widely traded securities in the world.It’s also worth noting that this isn’t like Twitter or some other single […]
About the AuthorMatt Coffina, CFA, is editor of Morningstar® StockInvestorSM.Contact Author | Meet other investing specialistsInterest Rates: Gravity for Asset Prices
Investors always hang on the Federal Reserve’s every word, but the obsession with monetary policy is reaching new heights as we approach the first short-term rate hike in almost a decade. The target federal funds rate has been around zero […]
Two-thirds of new investors in China’s recent stock market rally didn’t finish high school according to economists at Bloomberg.The Shanghai Composite Index, arguably the country’s most important stock market, has been on a roll since mid-2014 and shows no sign of stopping. This has puzzled economists given that China’s economy has of late shown some serious signs of weakness.On Friday, […]
U.S. indexes were generally positive until the closing minutes when some sort of selling program pushed indexes into the red. The S&P 500 fell 0.17% and the NASDAQ 0.32%. News flow was quiet as existing home sales in February were up 1.2%, to an annual rate of 4.88 million units, slightly below expectations.Fun fact: The S&P 500 has gone 24 […]
