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Why Donald Trump Is to Blame for the Stock Market Crash – Reason …

Ahmad Nawawi/FlickrInvestors and financial journalists scrambling to find an explanation for the recent plunge in global stock markets have plenty of suspects. Some look abroad for scapegoats: Greece or China. Others blame Janet Yellen: the Federal Reserve she chairs is at long last on the verge of raising interest rates, if only slightly. Personally, I blame the decline in share […]

Why short-selling ban won't help Chinese stock market – Business …

REUTERS/Jason ReedChina is trying hard to hold up its stock market.The first sign of a full-blown crisis is when the government tries to ban short-selling, and China is no exception.Short-sellers borrow stocks and immediately sell them off, reasoning they can buy them back at a lower price in the future and pocket the difference.But their negative bets put downward pressure […]

Asian stock markets sag as jitters mount over Greece – seattlepi.com

TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks markets sagged Tuesday as global jitters mounted over whether Greece and its creditors can reach a bailout agreement.KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 dipped 0.6 percent to 20,260.00 and South Korea’s Kospi lost 1.2 percent to 2,017.05. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 26,738.76. Other Asian benchmarks, including Taiwan and Singapore, were also lower.GREECE […]

'Stay away' from the Chinese stock market: Trader – CNBC.com

Trading Nation: Bull & bear on Chinese stocks
David Seaburg, Cowen & Co., and Todd Gordon, tradinganalysis.com, give perspective to investing in Chinese stocks.
China’s stock market is red-hot.After dropping 6.5 percent last Thursday, the Shanghai composite has bounced back to a fresh multiyear high. But as the index is already up more than 50 percent year to date, one market participant […]

Investors flee US stocks at financial-crisis levels – CNBC.com

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 […]

Stock market volatility par for the financial course – The News Journal

Published: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 9:27 a.m.
With the nation’s equities markets roiling with volatility these days, some investors are getting nervous. Fueling those concerns are the prospect of an increase in interest rates, sluggish gross domestic product growth and global concerns from the Eurozone to the Middle East. But the view […]

Here's how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader

Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]

Here's how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader – CNBC.com

Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]

Chinese Stocks Crash Most Since Feb 2007, Futures Limit-Down …

UPDATE:*SHANGHAI COMPOSITE HEADS FOR BIGGEST LOSS SINCE FEBRUARY 2007
*CHINA CSI 300 INDEX FUTURES FALL BY 10% LIMIT
* * *Who could have seen this coming?Having tried and failed once to stem the speculative frenzy in Chinese stocks, regulators took more direct action tonight and suspended three of the biggest securities firms from adding margin-finance and securities lending accounts for three months […]

Bourse posts strong gains despite political impasse – The Express …

Bourse posts strong gains despite political impasseIndex shoots up by almost 800 points, market closes at 28567.74 points­Web DeskTeamwork: ‘Entrepreneurs need encouragement’Regard­ing issue of financ­ing start-ups, Muazza­m said that fundin­g can be arrang­ed in moneta­ry or non-moneta­ry terms.APPCorporate results: Standard Chartered posts Rs7.3b profitBank’s revenu­e, net advanc­es increa­se by 9%.Our CorrespodentMoU signed between Pakistan, PhilippinesWill set up joint busine­ss counci­l […]