By Michael Snyder, on August 26th, 2015On Wednesday we witnessed the third largest single day point gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average ever. That sounds like great news until you realize that the two largest were in October 2008 – right in the middle of the last financial crisis. This is a perfect example of what I wrote […]
Investing.comThe recent collapse in stocks has been quick and brutal.It has not been a fun couple of days in the stock market. On Monday, the Dow lost 588 points, capping the blue-chip index’s first-ever string of back-to-back-to-back days of 300-point declines. Shortly after the market open on Monday, stocks were in a panic, with the Dow falling more than 1,000 points while […]
Image: FlickrJust in case you don’t know who Warren Buffett is, he’s currently the third-wealthiest person in the world, behind only Bill Gates and Carlos Slim Helu. He’s been building his massive $67 billion fortune since his first acquisition of a textile company back in 1962, and since then, he’s grown the Berkshire Hathaway brand into a holding company that […]
More Negatives than Positives, but…Posted by Joe Fahmy
on August 9th, 2015
Share on StockTwitsPart of my investment philosophy is to look at the positive and negative signs in the market and adjust my investment levels accordingly. It is important to keep an open mind when doing this. Don’t get too caught up in what “you think the market should be doing.” […]
The omens are not good when momentum and quality become highly correlated, warns SocGen’s cross-asset research group.Quality is now essentially price momentum and vice versa, and history tells us when these two strategies collide the omens are not usually good, as it is a phenomena usually associated with equity markets turning bearish. This becomes even more evident when they plug […]
Understanding stock trading can be overwhelming giving the rapid growth of online trading sites and do it yourself resources. It may seem hard to understand but learning who to talk to and go to will help you.First, you need to make time every day to learn about stock trading. Whether you keep notes on the computer, in a notebook, or […]
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonA man watching a board showing the graphs of stock prices at a brokerage office in Beijing on July 6.Chinese stocks have been getting hammered recently.After a boom in activity earlier this year, the Shanghai Composite Index has tumbled during July.But China has a bigger problem — in short, the growth of nominal gross domestic product (the size of […]
By PETER EGWUATUNearly two months after President Muhammadu Buhari took over the administration of Nigeria, investors in the nation’s stock market have lost over N1.032 trillion. Stakeholders have attributed the development to slow pace of governance, lack of policy direction, high political risk, feud in the federal legislature, no ministerial appointment, amongst others.MUHAMMADU BUHARIThe recent drop in the Nigerian stock market indicators […]
David Dollar | July 16, 2015 8:00amWhy the real Chinese economy is more important than the stock marketChina’s stock market has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past year. It more than doubled in value in the 12 months ending on June 12. Then it took a breathtaking plunge, wiping out a third of its value (more than $3 […]
China’s mightiest have taken a hard hit amid the recent stock market mayhem, including celebrities Vickie Zhao, Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing, who lost billions in profits.Our favorite empress Fan Bingbing, who made a profit of 200 million RMB from her investment in Shenzhen-listed Talent Television Film earlier this year, had120 million RMB shaved off her portfolio, while Grandmasters actress […]
