During a recent chat with a long-time investing-minded friend, the topic naturally drifted to the recent strong market performance and what that meant for our goals.Perhaps like many others, our goals can be broken up into two separate but related hopes. One, the mildly optimistic version, is that we save and generate enough investment returns to retire comfortably — live […]
Benchmarks hit record highs on Tuesday after Janet Yellen made her semiannual testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. Markets interpreted her dovish comments as reassurance that rate hike may only come in the latter half of the year. Moreover, gains in Home Depot, First Solar and Toll Brothers also boosted markets. The Dow reached a record high for second time […]
Markets rebounded on Friday to register solid gains as Eurozone’s officials approved a four-month extension to Greece’s bailout program. However, another decline in oil prices weighed on energy shares, which in turn eroded some gains. The Dow finished at a record high for the first time this year, while S&P 500 hit the same for the third time. Meanwhile, the […]
Fits and starts in developing a revolutionary new inhaled insulin have meant that Al Mann’s MannKind has had more than its fair share of pops and drops over the past few years. MannKind won FDA approval for Afrezza last summer and announced its commercial launch earlier this month . The news has investors wondering if now is a good time […]
The beginning of this year has been characterized by very large, volatile moves in the stock market. This week was different in that stocks moved very little until Friday. The news flow was no different than before – some headlines out of Europe and our Fed – so the lack of volatility was unusual, though refreshing.We’ll start with Europe, where […]
Is this another leg for bull stock market? Stocks indices close at a new high in week 8, 2015. Top performing industries are industrial textile, gaming activities, foreign regional banks, and biotech.This post will look into the top performing stocks, industry, and sector. The S&P 500 index has a weekly return of 0.68%. NASDAQ Composite has a weekly return of […]
The Seven Financial Indicators of Highly Successful Biotech Stocks InvestingCompanies / BioTechFeb 21, 2015 – 10:41 AM GMTBy: Money_MorningErnie Tremblay writes: When evaluating biotech stocks, many key indicators that work for other industries – e.g. price-to-earnings ratio, profit margin, revenue-per-share – often don’t apply.Here’s why they don’t, and why seven of these critical financial indicators do…The Usual Ratios Don’t ApplyThe […]
…and its gets right to the point.. There are a lot of interesting set ups but I cut right to the chase we some great new and old set ups. The market will have to be monitored just because the possibility of some selling into any more news concerning Greece.be sure to watch the Futures overnight to get the first […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedThe US markets are all back at all-time highs.I am happy because it feels really good and even right. In a market like this I remain underinvested but am being dragged into positions by the positive price action.Here’s what I see:Apple is being rewarded from profits and execution (I have been selling a bit lately).Google is ‘chopped suey’ […]
Benchmarks ended mostly lower on Wednesday after Fed minutes showed officials debated the effects of hiking interest rates from near zero level. While “many” officials said premature rise in interest rates will hamper U.S. economic recovery, “several” officials opined delaying the same will result in high inflation. Meanwhile, a drop in oil prices dragged energy shares down. While the S&P […]
