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Why Investors are Now Searching Out Active Funds

by Joshua Brown, The Reformed BrokerThe pendulum always swings too far in both directions. I would tell you the ratio of passive fund inflows to active fund inflows over the last few years but I can’t because the latter category would be a negative integer.Instead, I’ll just tell you that almost 100 cents of every dollar has gone into index […]

The pattern continues for U.S. equities

June 9th was the last comment here on the U.S. equity market. At the time, CNBC was obsessing over the “summer swoon”, pundits seeking attention and just guessing piled on, and the market was leaking slowly every day. That continued for a few weeks and on June 30 the Fidelity S&P Index fund that is used here was allocated more […]

NYSE Suspends All Stock Trading… Reopens at 3:10 PM EDT

NYSE suspends trading on all issues because of ‘technical issues’ according to Bloomberg as of 11:32 AM EDT.All open orders have been cancelled.Other exchanges remain open, such as Nasdaq and BATS, and stocks continue to trade there. NYSE ARCA and options are still open for trading.There are eleven stock exchanges in the US.It is not yet known whether the stock […]

Jesse's Café Américain: NYSE Suspends All Stock Trading…

Breaking:NYSE suspends trading on all issues because of ‘technical issues’ according to Bloomberg.All open orders have been cancelled.Other exchanges remain open, such as Nasdaq and BATS, and stocks continue to trade there. NYSE ARCA and options are still open for trading.There are eleven stock exchanges in the US.It is not yet known whether the stock market indices which obtain data […]

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Chinese Stock Market …

Nosedive PanicThe crash in Chinese equities continues amid regulators’ talk of panic and irrational selling.Ironically, China has banned the use of terms like ‘equity disaster’ and ‘rescue the market’ in analyst’s reports on the stock market.Over Half of Companies HaltedThe Guardian reports China Stock Markets Continue Nosedive as Regulator Warns of Panic.
Chinese stock markets tumbled again on Wednesday as investors […]

Citi: China's 'Wall Street Crash' means markets will fall further …

Flickr/IstolethetvChinese markets have fallen by around 30% in three weeks.China’s stock markets are in turmoil right now, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite collapsing 29% in just the last 3 weeks.The collapse closely mirrors the Wall Street Crash in the US in 1929 and the Chinese government has been desperately scrambling to try and stop the fall. The People’s Bank of China […]

Margin calls fuel China's dramatic stock market collapse | Business …

Stock market investors in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. Photograph: AP
What goes up, can also come down, as the old adage and the modern-day investor warning go. And that is precisely what the tens of millions of people who hold shares in China have been discovering.Chinese stocks had doubled between last November and mid-June, to the delight of a fast-growing army […]

One dangerous idea is keeping the Chinese stock market from …

ReutersAn investor stretches in front of a screen with stock information at a brokerage house in Xiangyang, Hubei province, February 22, 2011.See AlsoChina is flooding the US with insane drug ‘flakka’ — and it’s shockingly easy to obtainThere is something that is a bigger drag on US stocks than Greece or ChinaThere is a new ‘ghost town’ in ChinaAs all […]

Oil Faces Steep Downside Risk From China's Stock Market | OilPrice …

Oil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece – but one has not yet percolated through the markets just yet: the possibility of economic cracks in China, the largest oil importer […]

Greek stocks are crashing and the Greek stock market isn't even open

Jonathan Garber

Jun. 29, 2015, 7:17 AM
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Greece’s Athens Stock Exchange General Index is closed until at least July 6 as markets await the outcome of Greece’s referendum, but that has not stopped Greek stocks from crashing.The Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (GREK) is lower by 15% in pre-market trading on Monday. The early selling has GREK trading below the $10 level for […]