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Exit Polls Favoring Opposition Add to Indian Stock Market Rally …

Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA stock trader monitoring share prices in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Monday.MUMBAI, India — The benchmark Indian stock market indexes rose to a third consecutive record on Tuesday after exit polls forecast that the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party would win with a large majority, making Narendra Modi, a leader with a business-friendly reputation, the next prime minister […]

U.S. Dollar/Yen Dynamics and the Stock Market :: The Market Oracle …

U.S. Dollar/Yen Dynamics and the Stock MarketStock-Markets / US DollarMay 12, 2014 – 04:17 PM GMTBy: Michael_Pento

It is imperative to understand the dynamics between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese Yen in order to grasp what is occurring across international markets. Investors have been borrowing Yen at nearly zero percent interest rates and buying […]

Stock Markets Down on Expectations for Crimean Referendum

Fears of Russia’s possible economic isolation amid the political crisis in Ukraine have been causing investors to pull out their funds from the domestic stock exchange market, while international markets have been shaky as well.By midday on Friday the ruble-denominated MICEX fell 5 percent and the dollar-denominated RTS was down 5.5 percent, a low since August 2009. Both, however, later […]

Stock Markets Nervous Over Crimean Referendum, Economic …

Fears of Russia’s possible economic isolation amid the political crisis in Ukraine have been causing investors to pull out their funds from the domestic stock exchange market, while international markets have been shaky as well.By midday on Friday the ruble-denominated MICEX fell 5 percent and the dollar-denominated RTS was down 5.5 percent, a low since August 2009. Both, however, later […]

India Stock Market Booming on Modi Hopes – The American Interest

India’s stock market has hit record highs on consecutive days over the past few weeks, largely due to an outpouring of optimism that Narendra Modi, a pro-business and no-nonsense candidate for Prime Minister, will win the upcoming election.James Crabtree reports for the FT:The benchmark Sensex index retreated slightly on Tuesday, but the day before it nosed above 22,000 for the […]

Black Monday: Panicked Russian markets crash 10 percent over …

Black Monday: Panicked Russian markets crash 10 percent over UkraineBy Agence France-PresseMonday, March 3, 2014 8:41 ESTTopics: President Vladimir Putin ♦ ukraineMoscow (AFP) – Russian stock markets Monday crashed almost 10 percent and the ruble plunged to historic lows in value against the dollar and euro, as alarm grew over the potentially disastrous economic consequences of military intervention in Ukraine.Russia’s […]

A Real Yen For Stocks? | Benzinga

Let’s see a show of hands. How many of you out there struggle from time to time to ascertain why Ms. Market is doing whatever the heck she is doing on a given day?
Monday was a perfect example of why the word logic is rarely used in connection with the action in the stock market. In short, anyone perusing the […]

Stock markets soar overall in 2013, set records | Fox 59 News …

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The bulls are ready to celebrate! Wall Street closed out a banner year Tuesday with more record closing highs.The Dow Jones industrial average ended at an all-time high for the 52nd time this year. The S&P 500 also ended at a record high. The Nasdaq settled at its highest level in 13 years.U.S. markets will be […]