NEW YORK CITY (CNN)-Despite a recent string of positive economic news, Americans say they aren’t feeling the improvements.A new CNN/ORC poll released Friday showed people were pessimistic that the economy was improving. Nearly 70% said the economy is generally in poor shape, and only 32% rated it good.Two-thirds of respondents said most of the economic news they’ve heard recently was […]
By Michael Snyder, on December 26th, 2013
It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory. Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoever. […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS. To learn more click hereMarch E-mini S&P 500 Index futures continued higher overnight. The move is being driven by last week’s tapering by the U.S. Federal Reserve, stronger-than-expected U.S. third quarter growth and higher markets in Asia and Europe. The rally could continue throughout the session despite thin pre-holiday […]
The “Fed’s taper decision signals end of era for easy money” blares the Financial Times headline, the day after the U.S. stock market has risen to record levels following the taper announcement. Wasn’t the much-maligned QE that the Fed has begun to taper/reduce supposed to be causing a stock market bubble? So why does starting to take it away trigger […]
David Gurwitz: Stock Market Toppy Despite More Stimulus Coming
December 12th, 2013 John Manfreda of Wall Street for Main Street Interviews David Gurwitz of Charles Nenner research about Interest Rates, Gold, the Stock Market, Oil, Natural Gas, Economic indicators, and other topics. He even offers one free month of research to all who listen to this interview.http://charlesnenner.com/-Please visit the Wall […]
Its that time of the week for the usual Swiss team’s run through. The headline is they maintain that any near term weakness is corrective in nature and part of a year end push higher.This report is a bit thinner than usual but this fits with the theme of being patient for our year end Christmas present of a higher […]
Stock Market News for December 9, 2013
by Zacks Equity Research
Published on December 09, 2013 […]
Trade parameters: Sold CAC-40.I CFDs at 4.140.37 with stop at 4.250 (on close)Trade idea backgroundFrance and its stock market “own” the luxury goods market. According to Bain & Co. it controls 25 percent of the world market for these sought-after products. The problem with this “luxury” is of course that emerging market growth overall, and Chinese growth in particular, is slowing […]
I should probably get this out of the way early – I have absolutely no idea whether we’re in a stock market bubble. I think predicting stock market bubbles is really easy to do – in hindsight. They’re not so easy to predict beforehand. There are, however, legitimate arguments to be made on both sides of the argument.On the pro-bubble […]
There has been a lot of talk lately that ‘Big Data’ is just BS. Peter Houston looks beyond the hype to reveal what companies should be focusing on.Peter Houston Do you remember the first time you heard the phrase ‘Big Data’? Chances are, unless data’s what you do, it was last year. Big Data became big when the World Economic […]
