Foreign investors already can invest in China. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was launched last November, and it allows such investors to trade Shanghai A shares through the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mainland investors also gained access to Hong Kong shares, known as H shares.”China’s opening up could be the surprise story of 2015,” said Michelle Gibley, director of international […]
Nick DeWolfGlobal bonds recovered from a sharp selloff overnight but US stocks continued sliding and saw their worst day this week. The selloff in stocks came ahead of Friday morning’s big May jobs report in the US – the last one before the Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting. First, the scoreboard:Dow: 17,905.58, -170.69, (-0.94%)
S&P 500: 2,095.84, -18.23, (-0.86%)
Nasdaq: 5,059.12, -40.11, (-0.79%)
And now, the top […]
You Don’t Know Where the Stock Market is Heading!Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 02, 2015 – 09:20 PM GMTBy: Bob_LoukasI’ve been of two minds recently regarding the current Cycle picture in equities. So this week I focused more attention on finding secondary evidence to support a more definitive position ondirection. As I suspected it might, my research provided an almost […]
Related AAPLCan Apple Convince Spotify Users To Pay $10 A Month For Music?Take Advantage Of Weakness In Semiconductors, Citigroup SaysMicrosoft (MSFT) to Release New OS Windows 10 on Jul 29 – Analyst Blog(Zacks)Activist investor Carl Icahn made headlines on Monday by expressing his concern over the stability of the stock market during an interview on FOX Business Network.On the surface, […]
The health-care sector is hot—but it’s not due just to the wild ride in booming biotech.The health-care sector as a whole has been a standout in the S&P 500, up 9 percent year-to-date through the end of May and the top sector gainer last month, with a 4 percent return. That’s compared to the S&P 500’s meager 2.3 percent for […]
01Jun, 2015The Cure For Stock Market Fragmentation·The WSJ has an op-ed today titled “The Cure for Stock-Market Fragmentation: More Exchanges” which was written by Jonathan Macey (a Yale law professor) and David Swensen (Yale’s Chief Investment Officer). The article tackles what we believe is the number one problem with the US equity market: fragmentation. The authors sum up this problem in a […]
This past week, Houston, where I live, was flooded by a torrential down pour. However, it was not the rain itself that was the problem, it was the surge in rivers that flow through Houston. As far away as Austin and Dallas, rainfall had already began to flow into the San Jacinto and Colorado rivers which eventually culminated in rising […]
Ding Dong! The Wicked Bull Is DeadIf you follow the markets, you may have noticed a recent increase in “the bull is over” articles. While it is entirely possible the S&P 500 has already peaked, the evidence says it may be a bit early to declare the dawn of a new S&P 500 bear market.What Do The Facts Tell Us […]
This piece contains the opinions of deep value investor Tim Melvin that do not reflect the opinions of Benzinga.com.I have always been a student of the markets. Since my first disastrous experience as a broker with a Dean Witter ‘stock of the day,’ I figured out pretty quick that I better spend time researching stock picks as the firms didn’t […]
Stock Market Right Back Up…Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 28, 2015 – 06:21 AM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanWhen dealing with the stock market of the past five to six months there is a theme to be understood. Never judge one day’s action as if that’s the new trend to come. We have seen so many big days both to the up side […]
