Good to be back in the saddle after of a week of traveling in Silicon Valley, Napa and San Francisco. And I thought New York real estate prices were crazy.Whenever I am away, I like to ease back into the groove by reviewing some broad market and economic metrics. It isn’t that a lot changes in the day-to-day or even […]
Stock Market Still Vulnerable to Big DownsideBy: Brad Gudgeon | Sun, May 10, 2015SharePrintEmailLast time I wrote, I was expecting a move to about 2064/65 or about a 2% drop into the 12.5 week cycle low. We got a 2.45% drop into May 6th, TD 13 of the 12.5 wk low. Our money flow indicators suggested more upside as they […]
Big outflows from U.S. stocks
What do April’s major mutual fund and ETF outflows tell us? Andrew Burkly of Oppenheimer and Boris Schlossberg of BK Asset Management discuss with Brian Sullivan.
Many investors appeared to ditch American stock funds in April, in the biggest exodus since the financial crisis. But far from taking that as a bad sign, some investors view the […]
The biotech segment has been growing well surpassing all expectations until Monday when shares slipped significantly. The NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ^NBI and NYSE ARCA BIOTECH INDEX ^BTK had gained 16.7% and 18.7%, respectively, til Apr 24 but both declined more than 4% on Monday after disappointing news from several biotech companies.Just when news of several mergers & acquisitions, product approvals […]
APActors Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner ring the opening bell Monday at the New York Stock Exchange. By Caroline ValetkevitchNEW YORK – U.S. stocks ended down Monday, led by losses in biotech shares after disappointing news from several companies including Amgen.The Nasdaq Biotech Index sank 4.1 percent, its biggest daily percentage loss since March 25, while the S&P […]
On Saturday, July 16, 2014 I played in a tennis tournament with a partner that worked at Trulia, an online real estate company. He just got his job and was explaining to me how the company makes money through its ad placements for Realtors. If you’ve ever wondered why companies like Trulia and Zillow have done nothing to lower selling commission […]
Benchmarks ended Monday’s trading session in the red as investors feared a stronger dollar and weaker oil prices may affect first quarter earnings results. Investors were also apprehensive about the timing of the Federal Reserve’s decision to hike federal funds rates.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed in muted Tuesday morning trade amid a lack of fresh news to buoy market sentiments following an overnight slide on Wall Street.KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was barely unchanged, inching down 0.04 percent to 19,896.94 in the morning session. Investors were looking to sell after the index reached the psychologically key 20,000 […]
Benchmarks posted solid gains on Monday after weak jobs report raised hopes of a delay in interest rate hike. Friday’s nonfarm payroll data showed job additions slumped to a 15-month low in March. Meanwhile, U.S. service sector growth rate also touched a three-month low last month.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s […]
NEW YORK — Expectations that the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise interest rates, spurred by a weak jobs report last week, helped send the stock market up Monday. A jump in the price of crude oil set off a rally in energy stocks.The stock market was closed Friday, the day the Labor Department reported that employers added just […]
