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Chinese Stock Market Rout Continues; Trading Halted in Over Half …

The Chinese stock market meltdown is accelerating despite government intervention and is blowing back to commodities markets, including copper and oil, which are trading down based on concern that the stock market plunge is a harbinger of even more economic weakness. The Financial Times gives a snapshot of today’s downdraft:
China’s central bank stepped up state support for sinking stocks on […]

It's Going To Be An Interesting Week: After The Chinese Stock …

After The Chinese Stock Market Crash There Will Be A Margin Call On $370 Billion Dollars Worth Of Debt Next Week!!!SNIPChina’s stock markets tumbled on Friday to near bear territory further deepening the sell-off that started two weeks ago. The Shanghai Composite, down 7.4% on the day, has fallen 19% from its June 12 high wiping out $1.25 trillion in […]

Stock Market Game, WSJ report – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsNot professional investors.This is not how you learn about investing. Via The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig:This past week, some of the hottest portfolios in the country—funds with names like Canyonville, Westminster and Passaic Valley—shut down after racking up spectacular returns.These aren’t hedge funds. They are play-money funds run by high-school students for a stock-picking contest.[…]Ryan McCabe and Vincent Botti, […]

Countdown to the stock-market Crash of 2016 is ticking louder …

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Construction on the Bay Bridge in Oakland in 2013. Fiscal policy that includes public infrastructure development could stave off a collapse in economic growth.
Warning bells just keep getting louder and louder as the countdown to the Crash of 2016 keeps ticking. Wall Street’s in denial, but the Washington Post warns: “U.S. economic growth slows to 0.2 percent, grinding nearly […]

Stock market highly valued: Vanguard CEO – CNBC.com

Tim Boyle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWilliam McNabb, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Vanguard GroupHe also believes index funds will continue to outperform actively managed funds. From 2007 to 2014, index funds saw inflows of $1 trillion, while actively managed funds saw outflows of $659 billion.”It’s the triumph of low-cost investing, and I do think that’s a secular […]

Comedy movies and risky stock trading – linked? – Improbable …

Comedy movies and risky stock trading – linked?Attention stock-market followers – have you considered whether weekend comedy-movie attendance, and investment in risky stock-market assets on the following Monday might be linked? This question has been the subject of an in-depth investigation by Gabriele M. Lepori, (formerly) Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (now at Keele Management School, […]

Developments In Foreign Stocks Markets Are Hard To Ignore | Stock …

Markets Care About Money PrintingWhile the Federal Reserve has ended its quantitative easing (QE) program, central banks in Europe and Asia continue to implement ultra-easy monetary policies, which provide a tailwind for foreign stock markets. China announced additional economic stimulus last Sunday and more may be on the way. From The Wall Street Journal:
China’s central bank has long been critical […]

Bubble Watch: Biotech Edition

The financial markets have been on the rise for the past six years. That can only mean that doom is around the corner. What financial bubble is waiting to pop, and destroy us? Today: biotech stocks.What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, […]

Biotech, real estate and Greece: What to watch today

Welcome to Friday. Here are three things to keep an eye on during the trading day.Two of today’s three are animated by near-opposite human cravings, but both have been crucial drivers of this bull market: biotech stocks and REITs.Number 1:Biotechs are all about a hoped-for future, the promised huge payoff from smarts and risk-taking, magic molecules to extend lives and […]

Don't Be Seduced By The Siren Song Of The Stock Market | The …

I recently wrote that, “the single greatest mistake investors make is to extrapolate recent history out into the future.” As an example of how dangerous this natural tendency is, I shared a bit of Warren Buffett’s warning from late 1999 in which he wrote that the amazing returns from the stock market during that period had led to investor expectations rising […]