Wall Street on Friday closed higher for the first time in a week, lifted by rising tech stocks, while oil prices slumped 5 percent on receding fears about Middle East fighting disrupting supplies.U.S. Treasury debt prices jumped on government data indicating U.S. economic growth was slowing and the dollar was down, while gold had its first losing day after a […]
Hear that hissing noise?That’s the air coming out of the stock market.Here’s what’s happening and what to do about it…U.S. stocks are plummeting supposedly because Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Yemen, which has retaliated by lobbing missiles into Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, you know, where all the oil is.In the Middle East the Saudi market took a 5% hit yesterday. […]
Benchmarks ended in the red for the fourth-straight session after escalating tensions in the Middle-East following an air strike in Yemen dampened investor sentiment. Additionally, the crisis in Yemen drove oil prices higher on Thursday on concerns that it may lead to reduction in oil supply. However, upbeat initial claims data limited some of the day’s losses. The S&P 500 […]
Slump in biotech and technology stocks sent benchmarks to negative territory for third straight sessions on Wednesday. These sectors witnessed intense selling pressure as investors remained concerned that strength in the U.S. dollar will negatively impact earnings growth in upcoming quarters. However, the dollar weakened yesterday against major currencies following release of dismal durable orders data. The Nasdaq witnessed its […]
I’ve got some good news and some bad news.The good news is that despite Wednesday’s shellacking, major trendlines supporting the current bull market are still pointing to the upside. The bad news is that several of my key sectors, including semiconductors and banks, are stumbling.Put them together and it looks as if the market is taking a little break. Given […]
It’s been an eventful week on the pipeline front with companies like Biogen (BIIB – Analyst Report), Prothena (PRTA – Snapshot Report) and Vertex (VRTX – Analyst Report) coming out with data. Meanwhile, Gilead (GILD – Analyst Report) was back in the news once again due to its hepatitis C virus (HCV) franchise.Recap of the Week’s Most Important Stories1. Hopes […]
Markets ended its choppy session in the red yesterday as fluctuations in the value of the U.S. dollar weighed on investor sentiment. Benchmarks witnessed their third lowest trading volume this year on Monday. Meanwhile, weaker dollar boosted oil prices on Monday, which in turn had a negative impact on the transportation stocks. Moreover, decline in biotech stocks dragged down the […]
Akin Oyedele
Mar. 23, 2015, 2:21 PM
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
The multiyear run in major biotech stocks has not let up in 2015. Most of the large and mid-cap stocks in the industry are higher, but the smaller and lesser known names have also tracked them higher. In fact, several biotechs are up 200% or more so far in 2015.24/7 Wall St. ran a screen for the top five biotech […]
The multiyear run in major biotech stocks has not let up in 2015. Most of the large and mid-cap stocks in the industry are higher, but the smaller and lesser known names have also tracked them higher. In fact, several biotechs are up 200% or more so far in 2015.24/7 Wall St. ran a screen for the top five biotech […]
