April 30 Market Close: GovCon Index Plunges 2%, Biotech Losses Send Stocks DownRoss Wilkers April 30, 2015 Financial Report, News 49 ViewsThe GovCon Index capped the month of April with a decline of 2.001 percent to hit its lowest closing figure of the month at 73.372.Bloomberg cited losses in small cap and biotechnology stocks as a driver of declines in U.S. stock […]
LinkedIn hit Wall Street’s financial expectations Thursday, but lowered its revenue guidance for next quarter as investors sent the stock down more than 25 percent during after-hours trading.LinkedIn reported 57 cents per share on $638 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2015. That’s a revenue jump of more than 35 percent over the same quarter last year.Those numbers […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Stock Market is (still) Shrinking
Posted April 28, 2015 by Joshua M Brown
When I give talks to groups of investors or my fellow advisors, one of the concepts I tend to hit on is the fact that there is “a shortage of stocks” right now. This line always draws a good laugh, but then my shtick is […]
ShutterstockThe stock market appears headed for one of those points again when investors lose money, and a lot of it.Sure, the day-to-day moves of the market can cost investors at any time, but this is more about the correction, downturn or something bigger that many experts feel is on the horizon.In those times of heightened market tension, investors lose ground […]
Biotech Stocks and the Power of ContextInvestorEducation / Elliott Wave TheoryApr 27, 2015 – 10:13 PM GMTBy: EWIBiotech stocks: A real-life example of Elliott-wave forecasting at several degrees of trendSince joining Elliott Wave International in 1993, the editor of our Trader’s Classroom, Jeffrey Kennedy, has traveled to at least a dozen countries, teaching seminars to some of the best professional […]
Stock Market, Silver: Week in ReviewStock-Markets / Financial Markets 2015Apr 26, 2015 – 12:58 PM GMTBy: Brad_GudgeonFrom now on, I’m including silver in my updates. There are important issues on the horizon that will involve silver to a greater degree. One of those issues is: J.P. Morgan is accumulating physical silver like there’s no tomorrow; another is: silver is important […]
A new study by Zhi Da, Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame, shows that the growth rate in industrial electricity usage negatively predicts next one-year stock market returns.“For example, if the industrial electricity usage this month is one percent lower than that in the same month last year, we predict the stock market […]
Stock Market No Clear Direction As Investors React To Quarterly Earnings ReleasesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 23, 2015 – 04:47 PM GMTBy: Paul_RejczakBriefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): bearishShort-term outlook (next […]
Benchmarks ended higher on Wednesday following the prospect of Visa’s potential access to China, McDonald’s turnaround plans and upbeat housing data. Broad based gains among technology shares also had a positive impact on the markets. Meanwhile, investors continued to assess a mixed bag of corporate earnings results.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read […]
Stock Market April Cycle LowStock-Markets / Cycles AnalysisApr 21, 2015 – 06:04 PM GMTBy: Ed_CarlsonAlthough my Hybrid Lindsay forecasts always assume a small time window surrounds any single-date point forecast, the forecast for a high on April 15 (see last week’s commentary) was spot-on. The work of George Lindsay deals with time (not price) and tells us that the pullback […]
