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12.09.13: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the stock market | Financial Post

Sign up for the Executive Summary email briefing to get the news delivered straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.Markets: By the numbersTSX13,312.78 +32.06 +0.24%Dow Jones16,025.53 +5.33 +0.03%S&P 5001,808.37 +3.28 +0.18%Nasdaq4,068.75 +6.23 +0.15%Wow, did you see that? Good news for once begat good news on Friday, as investors took heart that employment reports in both Canada and the United States mean economic growth […]

Stock market jumps after strong jobs report … – The Seattle Times

Originally published December 6, 2013 at 7:33 AM | Page modified December 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM

NEW YORK — Good news was finally good news for the stock market on Friday.Stocks rose sharply after the government reported a fourth straight month of solid U.S. job gains, the latest encouraging sign for the economy.The strengthening job market […]

Trading Through the (Possible) Tapering — Trading Concepts | E …

Happy Friday, Friends. I’m always sorry to see the non-farm payrolls report go, as the volatility around it creates a great trading opportunity taught by Todd Mitchell as the “First Half Hour Breakout”. Like much of what Todd teaches, the method lends itself to additional uses, and data releases that tend to generate strong and rapid reactions from the market […]

Bruce Lee And The Stock Market | Zero Hedge

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,This morning I woke up bright and early to participate via the Internet in a live auction that was being held halfway across the world.The Hong Kong branch of Spink & Son, a British firm originally founded in the mid-1600s, was putting a series of Bruce Lee memorabilia under the hammer. And […]

Is the Stock Market Nuts? | RealClearPolitics

WASHINGTON — The question about the stock market is whether the bull is a bubble. The 1990s’ “tech bubble” and the recent “housing bubble” have conditioned us to think that almost any sign of investor craziness is going to end badly — and the stock market seems a bit crazy. At the end of November, reports Wilshire Associates, stocks were […]

Fed Creates INFINITE Rise in Stock Market! Ignores Collapse …

Fed Creates INFINITE Rise in Stock Market! Ignores Collapse
December 1st, 2013 Description:Faber: ‘We are in a massive speculative bubble’Faber said the markets, which have reached record highs, could still rise before the bubble bursts, if stimulus programs such as the Federal Reserve’s massive monthly bond purchases and super-low interest rates continue.“Now can the market go up another 20 percent […]

S&P 500 gains for 8th straight week | Stock market | The Seattle Times

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. […]

Warning: Avoid The 'Widowmaker' Trade… And Boost Income Instead

Today, I want to show you a chart every investor in America needs to be aware of. Not only does this simple graph answer one of the biggest questions facing U.S. investors today, but it could also be painting a picture regarding the state of the U.S. stock market right now. It’s our hope that after seeing this chart, you’ll have a […]

Funds have 'Big Data' problem that is costing you | Chuck Jaffe …

Your FundsAmerican citizens are rightly upset when they learn that government agencies have been systematically (and secretly) collecting, storing and looking for patterns of possible terrorism in phone calls and emails.They are angered that federal economic data and other indicators have been leaked seconds early, just enough time for high-speed trading firms to profit from advance warning.But they have been […]