Stock Market Crash Five-Year Anniversary Has Investors WorriedStock-Markets / Financial CrashMar 11, 2014 – 02:38 PM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: The stock market crash this week that occurred five years ago this Sunday marks a solemn anniversary for U.S. stock markets.Subprime financial crisis-related events would ultimately become responsible for five out of the top ten biggest single-day […]
Benchmarks finished Monday’s trading session nearly flat after recovering from day’s initial losses caused due to a drop in China’s export data and less-than-expected growth in Japan’s economy. Also, ‘hairline cracks’ in Boeing’s 787 dreamliners weighed somewhat on the mood. However, a new deal between two of the world’s oldest fruit importers Chiquita and Fyffes, and better-than-expected earnings forecast from […]
SummaryDJIA is only averaging 3% since January, 2000.
Everyone seems to be excited about recent gains.
But it is time to get real.
Everyone seems to be jumping for joy that the Market looks so good right now, but the Dow Jones Industrial […]
US stocks soared on Tuesday as fears of confrontation between Russia and Ukraine subsided. The S&P 500 jumped the most this year to reach a record high after Russian President Vladimir Putin said there he saw no need to use armed forces in Crimea for the moment. Following this news, investors were confident enough to invest in equities rather than […]
Russia’s financial system punished Vladimir Putin far more swiftly than western diplomacy on Monday, as the Moscow stock market suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in recent years and the rouble tumbled sharply in a first nervous reaction to the Kremlin’s gambit in Crimea.Some £34bn was wiped off the value of companies on the Moscow stock exchange on Monday […]
Benchmarks closed with marginal gains on Wednesday, despite reports of a rise in new home sales. Homebuilder stocks were among the biggest gainers for the day. Lowe’s and Target’s better-than-expected earnings also somewhat improved sentiment. However, investors waited eagerly for Fed chairwoman’s Janet Yellen’s semiannual testimony speech.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read […]
Posted Wednesday, February 26 – 7:45 AM(AFP) – US stocks gained modestly in early trade Wednesday with investors mostly tentative ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s testimony in Congress on Thursday.An hour into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 54.46 points (0.34 percent) at 16,234.12.The broader S&P 500 gained 5.54 (0.30 percent) at 1,850.66, while the Nasdaq […]
Benchmarks ended lower on Tuesday on reports of a decline in consumer confidence in February and dismal US home prices data. However, the retail sector gained on the back of Home Depot and Macy’s better-than-expected earnings reports. Overall, it was a choppy session with benchmarks entering the positive zone at noon but failing to hold on to gains.For a look […]
Merger and acquisition activities and a rally in health insurers took benchmarks to their record highs on Monday. A buoyant German confidence report also had a positive impact on the markets. The benchmarks ended in the green with the S&P 500 briefly reaching its all-time high. The Nasdaq ended the day at a fourteen-year high.For a look at the issues […]
Since everyone is talking about stock market crashes this week, let’s add some context here…Since the invention of the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the turn of the last century, there have been eleven instances in which stocks declined by more than 35% from peak to trough, or what you would term a market crash. We’ll talk about how the […]
