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 […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Subdued trading reigned in Asian stocks Wednesday after the S&P 500′s failure to punch through its recent record high for a second day instilled caution into markets.
There was little economic or corporate news for regional markets to trade on, which put Wall Street’s lack of momentum into focus.
For two straight days the S&P 500 has approached its […]
Morning technical analysis – 18 February 2014February 18, 2014 by Craig Erlam in Technical analysisEURUSDThe euro is creeping higher against the dollar again this morning but once again, the pair is clearly running into resistance near those previous highs of 1.3739 and the 61.8 fib level, 27 December highs to 3 February lows. The pair could be showing overbought signs […]
By Michael Snyder, on February 4th, 2014
Did you see what just happened in Japan? The stock market of the 3rd largest economy on the planet is imploding. On Tuesday, the Nikkei fell by more than 610 points. If that sounds like a lot, that is because it is. The largest one day stock market decline in U.S. history […]
Asian stocks slip, yen rises in holiday-hit trade
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| E-mail to friend REUTERS: Asian stocks slipped on Friday, as fears about the impact of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus withdrawal on emerging markets offset […]
A screen showing the Nikkei 225 Stock Average in Tokyo, Japan, as it slid earlier today. Photograph: KIYOSHI OTA/EPAGood morning and welcome to our rolling coverage of events across the financial markets, the global economy, the business world and the eurozone.Asian markets have taken a pummelling overnight as the share rout which began last week hit its largest stock exchanges. […]
Originally published January 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM | Page modified January 25, 2014 at 2:19 AM
Fear is back in the market.Investors are worried about slower economic growth in China, a gloomier outlook for U.S. corporate profits and an end to easy-money policies in the United States and Europe. They’re also fretting over country-specific troubles around the world […]
Stock Market Dow Theory DivergenceStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jan 12, 2014 – 06:02 PM GMTBy: Christopher_Quigley
I have told my students and mentoring clients that they are going to get a great lesson in the trading relevance of Dow Theory and technical analysis in the very near future.For the last 10 trading days (two calendar […]
For generating the greatest “wealth effect” and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe level of 2.7 million, is getting surprisingly little attention or love (maybe because unlike other countries, here unpleasant inflation from currency debasement is a coincident indicator resulting in such things […]
Happy New Year! For the first time since 2008, we investors, economists and businesspeople say these words without irony. While last year was statistically disappointing, with global growth slowing slightly from 2012 and apparently belying the optimism expressed here last January, the verdict of financial markets and business sentiment has been much more consistent with my predictions. Despite the apparent […]
