Investors overlooked weaker-than-expected nonfarm payroll additions to focus on economic strength in the report; helping benchmarks finish in the green on Friday. Unemployment rate dropped to a five-year low and construction sector showed strong gains. Encouraging earnings from Expedia also helped improve the mood. The two days of gains helped benchmarks rebound from losses to end with weekly gains; the […]
Stock Market Disaster ForecastStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 05, 2014 – 11:52 AM GMTBy: Ronald_Rosen
This is not a correction. It is an absolute and total disaster. The stock averages will be losing 66 % of their maximum value. […]
Last week, the Austrailian Bureau of Labor Statistics released its December CPI data. The inflation number came in at .8 instead of .4, causing a lot of volatility on the AUD/USD forex pair. Speculators tried to grab some of the move that was expected right after the announcement. Others sat back and let the news come out and be over with, before […]
For investors, February is starting off even rougher than January. U.S. stocks tumbled on Monday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 320 points after reports of sluggish U.S. growth added to investor worries about the global economy. It was the biggest one-day decline for the blue-chip index in more than seven months. And the drop followed the […]
(Editors’ Note: This article covers a stock trading at less than $1 per share and/or with less than a $100 million market cap. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.)Nearly everyone has heard about it, but not many really know what it is. I’m talking about the mysterious digital currency known as Bitcoin. I have always been […]
Strong fourth quarter initial GDP numbers and Facebook’s earnings results helped benchmarks return to their winning ways. In fact, the S&P 500 scored its biggest jump in more than a month and that has put the index on course to post weekly gains. Facebook’s gains also helped push the technology sector higher and it emerged as one of the top […]
As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this “big data” to be useful it must first be analyzed, meaning it needs to be stored in such a way that it can be accessed quickly when required.
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Every quarter we like to review the research at the top firms we cover and look for any new stocks to buy that are priced either slightly above or under $5 per share. In the past, many firms were reluctant to cover low-priced stocks. Some felt that the low price meant they were simply too risky. Other firms lamented the […]
It’s a funny old world when the home address of capitalism takes its orders from 1.3 billion communists who are even cheaper than IKEA, but dodgy manufacturing data in China did indeed set the tone for a terrible session on Wall Street. US stock markets thus continued their difficult start to 2014, with a triple-digit drop in the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) […]
The Dow ended in negative territory for the second-straight day while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq managed positive closes. As expected, earnings numbers were the dominating factor behind markets’ movement and IBM’s lower-than-expected revenues dragged the blue-chip index lower. Separately, positive numbers from Norfolk Southern and TE Connectivity boosted S&P 500. The tech-laden Nasdaq hit its highest level since 2000.For […]
