Systemic Fear Not As High As It Once WasWhy was the stock market able to break out from the 13-year consolidation pattern we covered last Friday? The bigger picture answer may lie in the answers to these five sub-questions:Does economic data support an imminent recession?
Is Europe on the brink of a currency crisis?
Are the technicals screaming be careful?
Is the Fed […]
Originally published December 23, 2013 at 5:45 AM | Page modified December 24, 2013 at 3:17 AM
NEW YORK — Stocks rose in quiet trading Monday as investors start to close the books on 2013.Apple helped lift technology stocks after the company reached a deal to sell the iPhone to China’s largest wireless carrier.The market has been moving broadly […]
For as long as stocks have been changing hands, it’s been clear that very large trades required special attention and handling. It’s one thing to simply buy 100 or 500 or even 5,000 shares of a stock, but it’s an entirely different thing to try and buy or sell a million shares or more.As a result block trading, or special […]
The aluminum story doesn’t seem to be getting much better (for producers like Alcoa, anyway).MetalMiner’s monthly Aluminum MMI® registered a value of 91 in December, a decrease of 3.2 percent from 94 in November. Three-month aluminum on the London Metal Exchange experienced the biggest drop in the complex, falling yesterday to $1,746 per metric ton, the lowest level we have seen […]
I should probably get this out of the way early – I have absolutely no idea whether we’re in a stock market bubble. I think predicting stock market bubbles is really easy to do – in hindsight. They’re not so easy to predict beforehand. There are, however, legitimate arguments to be made on both sides of the argument.On the pro-bubble […]
Why the Stock Market is Not a Bubble
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 24, 2013 – 06:18 AM GMTBy: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: In the past week, there have been major stories in both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal – as well as a cover story in Barron’s – asking the same pointed question: […]
This Isn’t a Stock Market Bubble… Here’s Whyby Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist, The Oxford ClubFriday, November 22, 2013: Issue #2171In the past week, there have been major stories in both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal – as well as a cover story in Barron’s – asking the same pointed question: Is this stock market a bubble?And […]
” webReader=”97.3686471009″>Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill has a big job with big implications for businesses and consumers alike. Her mission—to ensure that the U.S. economy operates with vigorous competition among producers, yet gives consumers access to accurate information–now even more vital in an era of Big Data.Addressing the audience at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Third Sloan […]
With investor purchases of securities “on margin” averaging more than $406 billion for the first nine months of 2013 (a 27 percent increase over the same period last year), we are re-issuing this alert because we are concerned that many investors may underestimate the risks of trading on margin and misunderstand the operation and reason for margin calls. Investors who […]
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Erin Griffith covers New York startups for PandoDaily. She’s worked as staff writer for Adweek and a private equity blogger for peHUB. Her writing has appeared in Venture Capital Journal, BBC.com, Time Out New York, Huffington Post, FT.com, and BUST. She plays keyboard in a band called Team Genius and Tweets […]
