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Robert Shiller isn’t ready to call the stock market a bubble. In an interview with Goldman Sachs published over the weekend, the Yale professor and Nobel Laureate said there is a “bubble element” to the behavior we’re seeing in the stock market. But outside of the “social epidemic” Shiller — who published his famous book “Irrational Exuberance” right before the Nasdaq […]
For one top technician, there are only two names that matter to the market right now: Apple and biotech.”The correlation between Apple and biotech is outstanding,” technical analyst Carter Worth said Friday on CNBC’s “Options Action.” In what he’s dubbing the “king and queen” of the market, Worth said, “The way the two act, you’d think nothing else in the […]
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 […]
Stock Trading Alert: Mixed Expectations Following Last Week’s Uncertainty – Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Mon, Jun 1, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on June 1, 2015, 6:24 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is […]
How Much Money Did the Fed Dump into the Stock Market? Joshua KrauseThe Daily SheepleMay 30th, 2015815 views
Ever since the housing crash of 2008 and the stock market crash that followed, there has been an undeniable trend in our economy. As soon as the Fed began its quantitative easing program, the stock market started to recover. The more cash they […]
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 Trading Alert: Stocks Extend Their Short-Term Uncertainty, Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, May 28, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on May 28, 2015, 6:35 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook is bearish:Intraday outlook […]
It was more whimper than roar, but the S&P 500 (SPX) ground to another record high last week. This achievement was scored within whisker-thin trading ranges as select measures of broader-market volatility probed 2015 lows. Now, economic data comes into focus in this holiday-shortened week and in the week following, which features the typically closely watched monthly jobs report.Volatility flared […]
A recent article in Seeking Alpha focused on the traditional role of some of Wall Street’s biggest players: hedge funds.In the six-year bull market that has taken the S&P 500 to new all-time highs, there has been little need for hedging or protection from a weak stock market. However, a large part of what hedge funds are meant to do […]
