Stock Market Going Nowhere FastStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 19, 2015 – 09:48 PM GMTBy: WavePatternTradersSPXLast week I mentioned the idea of a pullback on the SPX; it appears the bears were in tune with that idea, although it may still see a bit more downside as some of the European markets argue for a bit of weakness, such as […]
Car trader Paul Law predicts sales at his company could be 10 per cent higher than normal for this time of year. Photo: Nora TamTo some, the fun ride has only just begun.”Sales have been better,” Paul Law Siu-hung, chairman of Olympic Motor Group and a used car dealer, admits cheerfully.He says the recent rally in stocks gave a welcome […]
Time.comThis is not good advice.Time.com recently published a column advising a 33-year-old from Los Angeles who was trying to decide what to do with a newly gained $200,000 windfall. Their advice is clear in the article’s title: “When Going All In Is Not A Risky Bet”.This has raised the hackles of some commenters, with stock market blogger Jesse Felder observing […]
On Saturday, July 16, 2014 I played in a tennis tournament with a partner that worked at Trulia, an online real estate company. He just got his job and was explaining to me how the company makes money through its ad placements for Realtors. If you’ve ever wondered why companies like Trulia and Zillow have done nothing to lower selling commission […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fear that Greece could default on its debt and abandon the euro rattled global financial markets Friday.News that negotiations between Greece and its international lenders are making little progress sent European stock markets down sharply, and the selling spread across the Atlantic. By the close of U.S. trading, stocks across industries were lower, with four of […]
The local stock market promptly plunged 20 percent over the following few weeks, kicking off a phenomenon called the “Adam Cheng effect” or “Ting Hai effect.”In the two decades since, nearly every time the 68-year-old Cheng has appeared in a movie or television show—which has been more than 30 times—the Hang Seng declined.Most recently in 2013, the index fell nearly […]
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@ericbeeboHong Kong futures are getting crushed.There’s a major sell-off going on in China right now.Chinese stock market futures are down by more than 5% following news that regulators are tightening the screws on traders.”The China Securities Regulatory Commission banned the margin trading businesses of brokerages from taking part in umbrella trusts, while the Securities Association […]
Atlas Venture went through a corporate divorce last fall, as its tech partners and biotech partners went their separate ways. Now the biotech team has moved on, and re-loaded with twice the money they’ve had in the past.The Cambridge, Mass.-based firm, founded back in 1980, is announcing today it has closed on a new $280 million fund, its tenth, to […]
It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share. The company closed its first day of trading at $30 per share, an 86% percent rise from its initial price.The company raised over $287 million by […]
