Benchmarks ended mostly lower on Wednesday after Fed minutes showed officials debated the effects of hiking interest rates from near zero level. While “many” officials said premature rise in interest rates will hamper U.S. economic recovery, “several” officials opined delaying the same will result in high inflation. Meanwhile, a drop in oil prices dragged energy shares down. While the S&P […]
FarmPolicy.com News Update- Sunday: Policy Issues; Trade; Agricultural Economy; and, BiotechCategories: Agricultural Economy /Budget /Farm Bill /TradePolicy IssuesOn Friday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture held a budget hearing and heard testimony from USDA Inspector General Phyllis Fong.During the hearing, Subcommittee Chairman Robert Aderholt (R., Ala.), Subcommittee ranking member Sam Farr (D., Calif.) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D., Maine) all […]
Another holiday, another opportunity to get settlement day wrong. Plus some ancient history in which Washington’s Birthday is transformed into Presidents’ Day.Emanuel Leutze’s famed 1851rendition of Washington crossing the Delaware. (Via Wikipedia)WASHINGTON, February 11, 2015 – Some might wonder why we publish Wall Street’s holiday trading/settlement schedules in our CDN business and financial columns. The reason is simple. Inexperienced traders […]
Benchmarks eroded initial gains to end in the red as another decline in oil prices offset the positive impact of Apple’s record earnings results and the Fed’s encouraging view on economy and labor market. After concluding its two-day meeting on Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) provided a positive picture regarding economic growth and labor market, and also maintained […]
Stock market today, January 29, 2015: U.S. stock futures for Thursday, Jan. 29, forecasted a 33-point gain from yesterday’s close. The Dow Jones shed 195 points on Wednesday following a U.S. Federal Reserve statement about interest rates issued at the conclusion of the FOMC meeting.Today, investors will focus on a busy day of earnings reports that includes quarterly updates from Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, […]
VIDEO UPDATE: Watch tonight’s Market Report on Ticker.tvWednesday’s action was not very encouraging. Markets gapped up at the open and stayed in a small range until 2 PM, and then a heavy bout of selling kicked in. Again in bull markets we don’t want to see up opens and down closes. It looked like the market had wanted to turn […]
Black swan avalanche continues on Wall Street as markets continue to walk back last Thursday’s outsized gains in stocks.WASHINGTON, January 26, 2015 – Traders have been confronting a volatile market environment since the 2015 New Year Baby sent 2014’s tired Old Year codger packing. Oil prices, a change in congressional leadership, continued left-wing belligerence from a no-hugging-no-learning White House, chaos […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil and gas companies led U.S. stocks up Friday, setting the market up for its first gain in more than a week.KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 16 points, or 0.8 percent, to 2,009, as of 3 p.m. Energy companies led all 10 of the index’s industries to gains, surging 3 percent.The Dow […]
Spoofing, sometimes called “layering,” is a form of market manipulation where you pretend you want to sell a lot of stock, and everyone’s all, “Oh in that case I want to sell a lot of stock too,” and the stock goes down, and you actually buy a bit of stock instead, and you wait like a second and then pretend […]
You might want to invest in biotechnology, but be careful. It’s not an easy industry to master, and while some companies eventually skyrocket, many others flame out.One simple way to invest in biotech is the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Nasdaq: IBB), which is a fund of roughly 150 stocks that has grown by an annual average of almost 15 percent […]
