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Will There Be A Recession? The Stock Market's Offering Some …

by Raul de FrutosThe relationship between the stock market and metal prices changes from time to time. However, when the stock market plunges, history repeats itself and as fears of an economic downturn increase, consumer spending decreases and metal prices fall with the stock market.It’s in these situations when buying forward can become riskier than not hedging at all. Companies […]

STTG Market Recap May 23, 2014 – Stock Trading To Go

The NASDAQ capped off a strong week of out performance as we finally saw some rotation back into high growth / momentum type of stocks.  Today the S&P 500 gained 0.42% but the NASDAQ jumped 0.76%; this continued a trend we saw much of the week.   Weeks just ahead of a holiday are generally very light in volume and tend […]

Jason Haver: Did The Stock Market Just Tip Its Hand? | Markets …

Lately the market has done its best to convince traders that there are probably easier ways to earn money, such as by selling a kidney or by stealing the “Mona Lisa.” Over the last couple of weeks, I haven’t done much in the way of near-term projections, because I felt the market was near-term “un-projectable.” I have no […]

Is the Stock Market Cheap? | Doug Short | FINANCIAL SENSE

Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for the past month, which is 1,864.26. The ratios in parentheses use the monthly close of 1,883.95. For the earnings, see the table below created from Standard […]

Stocks End Upbeat Week on Cautious Note – Briefing.com

[BRIEFING.COM] The stock market finished an upbeat week on a cautious note as the major averages settled near their flat lines. The S&P 500 (-0.1%) shed less than three points, while the Russell 2000 (+0.1%) outperformed slightly. Interestingly, the bulk of today’s trading activity took place before 11:00 ET, while the key indices spent the afternoon within a striking distance […]

TraderFeed: PREP: Bottoming Stock Market or Gain Before Eventual …

I’ve received quite a few questions from traders about stocks and whether we’re putting in a bottom here. The question is understandable. If you look at a chart of the NYSE Composite Index ($NYA), for instance, you’ll see that we’ve bounced off a support area. Too, you can see from the number of fresh three-month highs minus […]

Stock Market Selloff Resumes :: The Market Oracle :: Financial …

Stock Market Selloff ResumesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Apr 11, 2014 – 01:35 PM GMTBy: PhilStockWorld

The pre-market release of an unexpectedly good jobless claims report was ignored by today’s market. The three-day selloff in the S&P 500 that began last Thursday resumed after a two-day reprieve. The index fell steadily through the day with a failed attempt to […]

Stock Market News for March 31, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Markets snapped two days of losses and ended higher on Friday boosted by encouraging consumer spending data. However, benchmarks lost some of their initial gains as the bio-tech stocks adversely impacted markets in late afternoon. Microsoft’s strong gains following its announcement of launching Microsoft Office on iPads propelled the Dow to end in the green.For a look at the issues […]

AWM Global Advisors | Stock Market Valuation Weekly Series

Drivers of Consumer Demand
Are we headed for another 2000 or 2007 type correction? While we do not expect a selloff of that magnitude, we are concerned that the stock market has gotten ahead of the economic fundamentals. Last year, S&P 500 went up by over 30%, while the U.S. GDP only grew by 1.9% in real terms. We expect the […]