SummaryStocks are now well into the fifth year of what has been one of the longest bull markets in history.
Stocks are an image of beauty, and it seems as though the fun is never going to end.
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The Dow and the S&P 500 closed at record highs on Monday primarily boosted by gains in Internet and bio-tech stocks. Merger and acquisition activity in the food industry too boosted investor sentiment. The day’s economic report was limited to Treasury budget, which reported a surplus of $107.0 billion.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure […]
Groupon Spending Too Much. But Stock Could Yet Prove A DealBy Catherine Holahan+ (@cholahan) Editor |
May 6th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsGroupon needs to spend too much money to make money. That was the verdict on StockTwits.com after the group discount site posted a smaller than expected loss on better than anticipated revenues, but fell short […]
Jeff Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine, told CNBC’s Scott Wapner Monday that he thinks the odds of the 10-year yield falling back to its all-time low have increased to about 30 percent because of the big short position. The 10-year hit 1.39 percent in July, 2012 and Gundlach said at that time, he thought the odds were 10 percent […]
Cosmetics company Estée Lauder (NYSE:EL) made for some mighty impressive trading collars on Friday. Shares surged 4.75% to end at an historic high – no mean feat in a week when its arch-rival Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) imploded. The firm, whose myriad other brands include Aramis, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Bumble and bumble, Clinique, Flirt!, Origins, and Smashbox, boosted its profit outlook. Today, however, its excessive subsequent […]
SummaryThe markets are ripe for a sizable summertime correction.
Although Johnson & Johnson is still one of the best stocks, its yield is below 3%.
There are headwinds facing the […]
What It Means When the DJIA Stock Market Index Goes Post-IndustrialStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Apr 25, 2014 – 08:23 PM GMTBy: EWI
Every time you use a new app on your smartphone, you may utter a silent prayer of gratitude for living in a post-industrial age. No more back-breaking heavy labor. Now, it’s all about technology and brain […]
Submitted by Economic Noise blog,How bad have markets been recently? If you are watching them day by day or week by week recently, they seem severe. Is this reaction because we have been spoiled and expect markets to always go up? Or, is something else going on?This chart shows SPY from January 2012 to the present. Each bar represents a […]
Welcome to our daily roundup of top insider trades. Here’s a look at the most significant inside purchases recently filed with the SEC.Notable Purchases:
Mark Rachesky, a director at commercial and military truck company Navistar International (NYSE:NAV), bought 911,774 shares of company stock for $30,206,736.
Bill Gross, co-founder of Pimco, bought 100,000 shares of the non-diversified, closed-end management investment company Pimco Dynamic Credit […]
Greece has been the epicenter of the eurozone debt crisis. And its ongoing economic depression is highlighted by the fact that a quarter of its workforce still lines up at the unemployment office.However, there are more and more signs that things are turning around in Greece. “Greece has been the most conspicuous example of the dramatic improvement in sentiment […]
