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Stock Market News for June 05, 2015 – June 5, 2015 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks ended in the red on Thursday as a decline in jobless claims raised concerns about rate hike sooner than later. Meanwhile, IMF urged Fed not to hike rates until next year provided there is a clear indication of a pick up in wages and inflation rate. IMF also trimmed growth forecast on U.S economy, which added to investor concern. […]

STOCKS CRUSHED BEFORE THE JOBS … – Business Insider

Nick DeWolfGlobal bonds recovered from a sharp selloff overnight but US stocks continued sliding and saw their worst day this week. The selloff in stocks came ahead of Friday morning’s big May jobs report in the US – the last one before the Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting. First, the scoreboard:Dow: 17,905.58, -170.69, (-0.94%)
S&P 500: 2,095.84, -18.23, (-0.86%)
Nasdaq: 5,059.12, -40.11, (-0.79%)
And now, the top […]

Trading the global bond market panic – CNBC.com

Traders on the floors of Wall Street can’t stop talking about the turmoil in the global bond market this week.The 10-year Treasury yield touched 2.42 percent Thursday, its highest level of the year and up from 2.09 percent a week ago. The yield on the German 10-year bund also hit its 2015 high.These are not the kind of moves that […]

Hedge Funds Gain +1.03% In April

Guest post courtesy of the Hennessee Group.
Hedge Funds Outperform in April
May 19, 2015 – New York, NY – Hennessee Group LLC announced today that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index gained +1.03% in April (+3.71% YTD), while the S&P 500 gained 0.85% (+1.29% YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose gained 0.36% (+0.10% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index rose 0.83% […]

STTG Market Recap May 12, 2015 – Stock Trading To Go

It looked like it was going to be a very nasty day premarket but in the end losses were mild for U.S. indexes.  Still it remains time to be cautious as we have been for the past two weeks.  The S&P 500 fell 0.29% and the NASDAQ 0.35%.   The bond market continues to cause some issues as not only the […]

Predictions, Results and more Forecasts!

Dear Reader,European stocks seem to have started the 10% correction I predicted. The German DAX Index is down circa 5.5% from its peak.European ‘periphery’ government bonds seem to have started the sell off I predicted. Spanish and Italian government bonds sold off hard during the past several weeks. I think the sell off will continue and even accelerate.I expect the […]

Bubbles, Economic and Financial Forecasts!

Dear Reader,Non-farm payrolls in March in the USA were weak. I expect a very weak GDP reading for the first quarter of 2015. Overall, I forecast US GDP to grow no more than 2.5% year on year in 2015. Actually, I think the growth year on year of US GDP for 2015 will be closer to 2.0% than to 2.5%.That […]

Don't miss this 'gem' in Europe's stock market, says Barclays …

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Were you too skeptical to follow the Europe bulls and pile into the region’s stock markets early in the year? But worried now it is too late to make stellar returns out of the once unloved region?The good news is that you can still comfortably take a seat on the European equity train, and let the European […]

Why U.S. stocks may start beating Europe's market – CNBC.com

U.S. stocks rose Monday even with another negative surprise, this time in the Empire State survey, one of the first pieces of data on March activity. The Empire survey, at 6.9 in March, was the weakest since November 2013, and well below the reading of 8 expected by economists.For the year, the divergence between the U.S. and Europe has been […]

Sex and booze sell on the stock market – Business Insider

Portia Crowe

Feb. 23, 2015, 4:57 PM
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Credit SuisseSee AlsoThe German pizza arbitrage is over for the SwissBARRON’S: For Nasdaq 5,000, this time it’s differentGOLDMAN: Here are the 18 stocks that hedge funds love the mostSex sells. So do booze, guns, and tobacco.In its new Global Investment Returns Yearbook, Credit Suisse compared two mutual funds that launched around the same time in […]