Encouraging holiday season sales numbers and labor data helped the Dow and S&P 500 continue their record run on Thursday. Initial claims dropped for the week ending Dec 21 and holidays sales were reported to have improved between Nov 1 and Dec 24 period. Positive holiday sales numbers lifted the retail sector into the green and was among the major […]
Not a Time to Time the MarketAmerican business will do fine over time. And stocks will do well just as certainly, since their fate is tied to business performance. Periodic setbacks will occur, yes, but investors and managers are in a game that is heavily stacked in their favor. (The Dow Jones Industrials advanced from 66 to 11,497 in the […]
Stock Market QE3 End Date Meaning
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Dec 21, 2013 – 07:36 PM GMTBy: Toby_Connor
The market gapped up on Monday, rallied to SPX 1792 in the opening minutes, then pulled back until just after the FOMC statement at 2pm on Wednesday. After that the market soared right into […]
Benchmarks ended in the green on Monday, as investors attempted to predict the Federal Reserve’s next move ahead of its two day policy meeting. Investor sentiment also got a boost from indications of a strong recovery in the economy led by encouraging U.S. manufacturing data and upbeat data from Europe. Two major corporate deals also captured investors’ attention for the […]
Facebook is working to become your new best friend, getting to know you better by infusing the billion-member social network’s software with artificial intelligence.
The California-based social network giant is hiring professor Yann LeCun of NYU’s […]
Benchmarks ended in the negative territory on Thursday as encouraging economic reports once again intensified apprehensions that Federal Reserve’s tapering may happen sooner than expected. The economy was reported to have expanded at a faster rate and the initial claims number dropped. Now, Friday’s nonfarm payroll report will be keenly watched for further hints on Fed’s taper decision. The Dow […]
Originally published November 29, 2013 at 8:33 AM | Page modified November 30, 2013 at 1:35 AM
NEW YORK — The stock market fizzled Friday at the end of a holiday-shortened trading day, but still logged its longest streak of weekly gains in a decade.The Standard & Poor’s 500 index ended down one point, or 0.1 percent, to 1,805.81. […]
Today it appears that the ongoing saga of OCZ’s roller coaster ride on the stock market has finally came to an end. Earlier this morning, weeks of ups and downs in the company’s share price as well as rumors of massive financial troubles finally came to a head when trading was halted on the SSD manufactures stock.
Trading was suspended […]
The Nasdaq crossed the 4,000 mark yesterday for the first time in over a decade as strong housing data and positive retail earnings reports improved sentiment. The Dow and S&P 500 also finished in the green, extending their respective record highs. The consumer discretionary sector was the biggest gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups, while utilities stocks lost the […]
For the past decade, Microsoft’s (MSFT) share price has been somehow stagnant. However, according to the outgoing CEO, Steve Ballmer, it is the market that is failing to recognize the company’s value. Understandably, some may view this as an excuse but if you think of it, he has a point. However, it’s during Ballmer’s tenure at the helm of the […]
