Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill our quarterly reader survey. We had 263 total responses.Overall you readers rate our free market recaps at 8.8 / 10, the same strong score we received last quarter.As for the open responses, first off thank you to all the great comments and kind words, we truly appreciate your support!Before noting […]
LikeTweet+1Football (soccer) is a religion of sorts in much of the world. Everything stops for the big games, and the World Cup is about as big as it gets. Earlier this week, as everyone nervously prepared to watch what was sure to be an epic match-up between hometown favorite Brazil, and football juggernaut Germany – (Spoiler Alert – Germany basically […]
By Cris SheridanOver the last several years, two powerful forces have helped to drive the stock market far higher than many have expected. The first, as we all know, has been very loose monetary policy through a combination of low rates and continuous rounds of QE by the Federal Reserve.The second has been the record amount of stocks bought by […]
For the average person trying to decide how to feel about the economy, the single biggest data point is the stock market. When share prices are rising, the implicit message is that finance professionals — who, after all, dedicate their lives to understanding such things and should therefore know what’s happening — have decided that life is good and getting […]
Benchmarks scored record highs yet again on Thursday, banking on encouraging June’s nonfarm payroll numbers. Investors were also encouraged by a drop in the unemployment rate. Unemployment dropped to its lowest level in almost six years. The blue-chip index and the S&P 500 closed at a record level for the third straight day. The Dow closed above the 17,000 mark […]
Benchmarks ended Wednesday’s listless trading session little changed despite upbeat private sector hiring numbers. Investors refrained from betting ahead of the nonfarm payroll data for June that is scheduled for release on Thursday. Investors also kept an eye on Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s comments on financial stability.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to […]
Benchmarks started the second half of 2014 on a positive note after economic data showed manufacturing activity picked up in U.S and Asia. Gains in health-care, technology and consumer discretionary sectors also propelled the S&P 500 and the Dow to close at record highs. Bio-tech stocks primarily boosted the Nasdaq. Upbeat U.S. auto sales in June also boosted investor sentiment.For […]
Transport Systems Catapult organized the Sentiment Mappers Event last week as part of the Imagine Festival. The presentations proved to be inspiring and informative into ways of mapping people’s sentiments related to journeys with the ultimate goal to improve the customer experience in the transport sector.I include here a summary of the 5 presentations below, focusing on some of the […]
Benchmarks finished Tuesday’s session with meager losses as investors awaited the outcome of Thursday’s ECB meeting and the monthly US jobs report on Friday. Encouraging reports on factory orders and upbeat monthly car sales numbers failed to boost investor sentiment. Tuesday’s losses caused the S&P 500 and the Dow to retreat from their previous day’s record highs, while the Nasdaq […]
Stocks are still challenging all-time highs, and investors keep hearing that the bull market has now become a stock picker’s market. What this means is that investors still will try to make gains, but they will want to avoid getting caught in bad stocks. As 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of analyst upgrades and downgrades each week, it turns out […]
