The Stock Market Week in ReviewBy: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, Apr 18, 2015SharePrintEmailThe stock market had a rocky week last week, ending on a down note. Early on, I expected a possible 40 point SPX down move from Monday into Tuesday. I also was looking for a possible top around Thursday. The SPX fell 24 points from Monday into Tuesday […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Major stock indexes flipped from losses to gains Thursday afternoon following a rebound in crude oil prices. Major markets in Europe finished with losses amid renewed concerns that Greece could default on its debts.KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 39 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,153 as of 2:34 p.m. Eastern time. The Standard […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix soared, big corporations turned in quarterly results, and investors welcomed new companies into the market. There was plenty of news, but major indexes finished the day just short of where they started.Stocks drifted lower at the start of trading, followed oil prices higher in the early afternoon, then flipped back to slight losses in the […]
on weekends and tweet any changes during the week at @humblestudent.I would love to say that I am right all the time, but the market gods will humble anyone who does that (hence the name of my blog “Humble Student of the Markets”). Last week, I was leaning bullish (see The bulls are alright), but that directional bet worked […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes crept higher in midday trading following a strong performance last week. The gains on Monday were wide but slight: Eight of 10 sectors in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose, though not by much.KEEPING SCORE: The S&P 500 edged up three points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,112 as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern […]
For some time now, Europe’s economy has been traversing rough waters. Economic data has been disappointing and geopolitical tensions have kept investors worried. While an uneasy truce has been reached on Ukraine, Greece debt negotiations remain unresolved. But new economic data and stock market performance indicate that it may a good time to buy into Europe after all.Markets Moving NorthMarkets […]
We love how consistently silly Bob Pisani and CNBC are.CNBC has never, and will never understand trend following as a discipline. Never mind there are dozens of trend following firms with hundreds of billions under management. And never mind there are thousands of individual trend following investors and traders doing perfectly well.We love their silliness because their audience are the […]
Below is the February 16th Thoughts from the Frontline, republished in full.We do not have to look to Greece to find massively underfunded obligations. Here in the US we can find hundreds of examples, willingly created by politicians and businessmen who proclaim they are working for the public good. We call them pension funds, but they’re just another form of […]
Six years into the bull market in stocks and there’s no shortage of scary things on investors’ worry list.From Vladimir Putin and Greece to the dramatic plunge in oil prices, something is bound to trip up the stock market, right? After all, the good times on Wall Street can’t last forever.But the key to knowing where stocks are going next […]
VIDEO UPDATE: Market analysis + CANSLIM stock picks.Thursday was a strong day for indexes as they gapped up at the open and buyers were firm all day. The S&P 500 gained 0.96% and the NASDAQ 1.18%. As expected it seems all those threats from Greece on their debt are falling away as most expected. This has been a pattern for […]
