Stock Market Friday Payroll SurpriseStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 04, 2015 – 03:09 AM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week at SPX 2061 after last week’s sharp decline from near record levels. After a rally to SPX 2089 on Monday the market nearly retested last week’s low at 2046, then bounced to end the holiday shortened week at 2067. For […]
Momentum Stocks: Caution Ahead (Part 4 of 6)(Continued from Part 3)Another case in point is biotech.Biotech is another obvious example of the momentum trade. It is a high “beta” or risky industry that has been a strong relative performer for many years. Through the close of the week ended March 20, the Nasdaq Biotech Index had surged 20% year-to-date. The following […]
By Jeff Cooper at Minyanville.comMany leading glamours and generals took gas yesterday as the SPX erased the lion’s share of Monday’s big spike. It’s been a bear market in follow through, nothing new about that.But Tuesday’s selloff had the whiff of liquidation. The selling in biotech generals like Celgene (CELG) and Amgen (AMGN), which had recently set new highs, leaves […]
Market Cycles: Trouble Ahead In The Stock MarketGary Christenson |April 2, 2015| Category: InvestingTags: stock marketThe S&P 500 Index has been levitated for 6 years by easy money, low interest rates, buy backs of corporate stock, and so much more.Can it rally for another 6 years?I doubt it.Examine the following log scale monthly chart of the S&P.Items to note:Vertical blue […]
shuttyConfounded by this wacky stock market? You’re not alone.Robert Shiller, the 69-year-old acclaimed economist who helped create the Case-Shiller home-price index, is having a tough time deciphering this U.S. stock market too.The 2013 Nobel laureate and Yale University economics professor told MarketWatch that this volatile, post-financial-crisis market, in which interest rates have been at or near zero since 2008, is […]
On March 30, 2014 GeoInvesting stated that it was taking a closer look at Great Basin Scientific (GBSN) as just 3 months after the company went public on October 9, 2014, we received a promotional pump, e-mail newsletter. The day of its IPO, GBSN reached an intraday trading high of $9.08 before closing at $5.97. Since its IPO and until recently, GBSN […]
Is The Stock Market On The Verge Of Collapse?March 31st, 2015Are we watching a replay of the last financial crisis? Over the past six months, the price of oil has collapsed, the U.S. dollar has soared, and a whole bunch of other patterns that we witnessed just before the stock market crash of 2008 are repeating once again. But what we have not […]
The Stock Market In 2015 Is Starting To Look Remarkably Similar To The Stock Market In 2008
By Michael Snyder, on March 31st, 2015Are we watching a replay of the last financial crisis? Over the past six months, the price of oil has collapsed, the U.S. dollar has soared, and a whole bunch of other patterns that we witnessed just […]
Posted by Jason Zweig on Mar 30, 2015 in Blog, Featured, Posts |Image credit: Genetically modified Amflora cells, BASF, flickr Creative CommonsBy Jason Zweig11:17 am ET Mar. 27, 2015In a research note out today, Credit Suisse analysts Ravi Mehrotra, Jason Kantor, Anuj Shah and Jeremiah Shepard write that biotechnology stocks are not in a bubble but “rather in a new […]
on weekends and tweet any changes during the week at @humblestudent.I would love to say that I am right all the time, but the market gods will humble anyone who does that (hence the name of my blog “Humble Student of the Markets”). Last week, I was leaning bullish (see The bulls are alright), but that directional bet worked […]
