Defence against the economic elements? The street outside a share prices display in Tokyo on Thursday. Photograph: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images
Global stock markets continued to tumble on Friday, pushing the FTSE 100 to its worst weekly fall in more than three years. Since Monday, £112bn has been wiped off the value of Britain’s leading companies.Investors headed for the exits amid growing […]
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 […]
Excerpted from IceCap Asset Management’s Keith Dicker’s latest letter to investors,Three hundred years ago, physicist Isaac Newton, compiled the Third Law of Motion. Ever since, people everywhere have noticed how every action does indeed have an equal and opposite reaction.This Third Law of Motion is certainly evident in the music world where The Rolling Stones gathered a lot of moss. […]
View gallery.Until the markets pullback a bit, investors and traders will ride this gravy train as long as it goes. Thanks to the market run-up a lot of stocks already seem somewhat extended. However, there are some stocks that are a little late to the party and are just now breaking higher.For example, Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLDX) just recently broke […]
The S&P 500 was up 0.5 percent to 2,063 for the week, and is now up nearly 11 percent from its October lows. The S&P also had its best five-week winning streak since April 2009, and some analysts say its recent gains may take some of the steam out of a potential late December rally.”We beat the Christmas rush and […]
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REUTERS/Mike SegarJohn Childs, who lost his home in the New Dorp Beach section of Staten Island in Hurricane Sandy holds the American flag as he stands on the edge of the beach on the south shore of the island during an event to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy in the Staten Island […]
Quick question: Has 2014 been an up year or a down year for U.S. stocks?Chances are good that, if you anchor your view of the market to the Standard and Poors 500 Index or the Dow Industrials, you’d answer correctly that it’s been an up year. Less well appreciated is that the smallest capitalization stocks (IWC) are actually a bit […]
US Stock MarketDavid R. KotokCumberland AdvisorsFor a while we said the US was the “least worst” investment alternative in the world. And that used to be hotly disputed. The present global outlook may require the most strenuous doubters to reconsider.Sure, we have a lot of work to do. And the fiscal, energy, tax, geopolitical, and social policies of our country are […]
Snacking is officially a craze. More than nine out of 10 Americans snack daily — a quarter of them three to five times every day, according to a recent Nielsen survey. But it’s not just people in the U.S. who are sneaking a bite. Snacking is now a $374 billion global industry, and it’s growing 2 percent annually.Europeans spend nearly […]
Tech was helped by Skyworks Solutions, up more than 7 percent after the Apple supplier raised its guidance for earnings and revenue for the quarter ended in September. Intel, reporting after the close, also was trading higher.The good news for semis comes after Microchip Technology lowered its forecast for its fiscal second quarter after chip sales fell short. Beaten-down chip […]
