Myles Udland
Jun. 24, 2015, 11:47 AM
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Wikimedia CommonsCarl Icahn is worried about the market. In consecutive tweets on Tuesday, Icahn said, he thinks the market is “extremely overheated,” particular high-yield bonds, and added that, “If more respected investors had warned about the market in ’07, we might have avoided the crisis in ’08.”This is not, however, the first time Icahn has sent […]
Wikimedia CommonsThere is probably a bubble in biotech stocks. In a big note on published on Friday, analysts at Credit Suisse ask if we’re in a biotech bubble, and answer that no, it’s not a bubble, merely a “new era” for biotech stocks. Which is exactly what it sounds like when something is a bubble. Credit Suisse hinges its argument on what it […]
Wikimedia CommonsThere is probably a bubble in biotech stocks. In a big note on published on Friday, analysts at Credit Suisse ask if we’re in a biotech bubble, and answer that no, it’s not a bubble, merely a “new era” for biotech stocks. Which is exactly what it sounds like when something is a bubble. Credit Suisse hinges its argument on what it […]
Akin Oyedele
Mar. 27, 2015, 8:54 AM
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Wikimedia CommonsCredit Suisse analysts say biotechs are not in a bubble.Still, in a note Friday, the firm presents evidence for the industry being in in a bubble, and other evidence that it definitely isn’t.The signs that there’s a bubble, they wrote, are that the NYSE Biotech Index has gained 204% versus 64% for the S&P 500 since […]
Akin Oyedele
Mar. 26, 2015, 8:22 AM
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Wikimedia CommonsSome investors have been worried about a bubble in biotech stocks, and Wednesday’s sell off seemed to prove those fears.Biotech stocks fell more than 3%, their biggest one-day drop this year.But the industry is still one of the best-performing in the market: it’s up 35% over the past 12 months and 9.3% year-to-date, compared to year-to-date gains […]
View photo.(Wikimedia Commons)Some investors have been worried about a bubble in biotech stocks, and Wednesday’s sell off seemed to prove those fears.Biotech stocks fell more than 3%, their biggest one-day drop this year.But the industry is still one of the best-performing in the market: it’s up 35% over the past 12 months and 9.3% year-to-date, compared to year-to-date gains of 3% for the […]
Wikimedia CommonsStocks are having a rough go of it in North American trading today.
The S&P 500 is down 0.5%, trading near 1773, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.8%, trading near 15,710. Both are at their lows of the day.Barring an afternoon comeback, this will be the third day in a row that stocks close in the red, […]
Wikimedia CommonsArtist’s impression of a 1000km-diameter planetoid hitting a young Earth.For as long as we’ve had a stock market, we’ve had the risk that it would crash.
In recent weeks, however, stocks have continued to roar to new all-time highs, far outpacing expectations for earnings growth.As such, valuations have become frothy, and many signals are telling us that the market is […]
