NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, adding to recent gains, after deal news including a bid from FedEx for a Dutch peer suggested companies still see value in the market.Healthcare stocks led the advance on the SP 500 with biotech shares up after four days of losses. The Nasdaq Biotech index .NBI added 1.8 percent, while the […]
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
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Mar. 23, 2015, 2:21 PM
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
Recent sharp gains in the U.S. dollar <.DXY> have increased worries about the currency’s impact on the earnings of U.S. multinationals. S&P 500 earnings projections for the first quarter and for 2015 have fallen sharply since Jan. 1.Among early reporters, Nike (>> Nike Inc) jumped 3.7 percent to $101.98 as the biggest boost to the Dow after it posted a […]
As March Madness begins the market had a solid quiet inside consolidation day. Biotech stocks were once again the talk of the town as many stocks were jumping higher. Once again small cap stocks were the winners today with the NASDAQ Composite just behind. The Dow led to the downside as pressure from a rising dollar continues to be the […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, 2015.Many Americans believe that the economic recovery has only recently picked up steam. But one group that is widely seen as benefiting in recent years are investors in the stock market. This is a point that former Sen. James Webb, D-Va. — a potential longshot candidate […]
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The Nasdaq rose for the seventh straight session, driven by biotech stocks. The Composite getting closer to the 5,000 mark. But stocks mostly ended in the red zone amid uncertainty over the prospectsShare 0
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UPDATE:*SHANGHAI COMPOSITE HEADS FOR BIGGEST LOSS SINCE FEBRUARY 2007
*CHINA CSI 300 INDEX FUTURES FALL BY 10% LIMIT
* * *Who could have seen this coming?Having tried and failed once to stem the speculative frenzy in Chinese stocks, regulators took more direct action tonight and suspended three of the biggest securities firms from adding margin-finance and securities lending accounts for three months […]
My 2015 PredictionsPosted by Ivanhoff
on December 9th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsPredictions are very one-dimensional. You are either right or wrong and as we know from George Soros this is not the most important thing in investing. It is far more important how much money we make, when we are right and how much we lose when we end up being wrong.There […]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong stocks moved between small gains and losses early Friday, while Shanghai shares nosed a little higher, with earnings results front and center in both markets. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index [s; HK:HSI] was down 0.1% about 5 minutes into trading, after the benchmark fell 0.7% a day earlier, while the Shanghai Composite
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