Political CalculationsUnexpectedly Intriguing!Tracking the Number of Publicly-Traded Companies in the U.S. Stock MarketHow many U.S. companies have been publicly listed on the AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE stock market exchanges over each of the past 40 years?The answer is graphically presented in the following chart!In the chart, we’ve also indicated the National Bureau of Economic Research’s official periods of recession in […]
Benchmarks ended marginally higher on Thursday following mixed economic data. While reports on housing, manufacturing and labor market were discouraging, Conference Board’s leading economic index was up for April. The day’s mostly weaker-than-expected economic data increased expectations of delayed rate hike, which eventually helped the S&P 500 to close at a record high.For a look at the issues currently facing […]
Benchmarks ended higher on Monday after dismal housing report pushed back the possibility of rate hike in near term. Fed Chicago President Charles Evans also recommended that the Fed should hold back from hiking interest rates until 2016. Gains in Apple’s shares too boosted the broader markets. Monday’s gains helped the S&P 500 close at a record level for the […]
Online retail marketplace Overstock.com has purchased a 25 percent stake in PRO Securities, following its earlier announcement to offer a stock that works on the Bitcoin technology.In April, the Patrick Byrne-led online retail giant had filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that a stock offering may be in the offing using the technology behind the digital […]
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee tells Republicans on Friday the way to get votes in 2016 is get people to focus on whether their own personal economy has recovered. (Capitol Media Services photo by Howard Fischer)Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee told Republican party faithful Friday the key to winning the White House is getting people to ignore a booming stock market and […]
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Biotechnology companies have been going public in record numbers, and many of them have been immediately embraced by public-market investors once their stock starts trading.But does that mean the sector is in a bubble?The chief executives of two venture-backed companies that went public spoke at the National Venture Capital Association’s annual conference in San Francisco. They said the good days for […]
zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden on 05/07/2015 12:51Three days ago, when looking at the unprecedented, record outflows from US equities (coupled with continued inflow into bond funds into what BofA’s Hans Mikkelsen would likely dub the Great Antirotation) we asked a simple question: “who is buying… no really“.Then yesterday, the spoofing algos were briefly spooked when Yellen, for the second […]
PrintSubscribeinvestingDid you miss the stock market rally? You’re not aloneBy Claes Bell, CFA • Bankrate.comIt’s often said that a rising tide lifts all boats, but a rising tide isn’t much help if you don’t have a boat. In the midst of a six-year market rally, more than half of Americans don’t own any stock investments at all, potentially missing out […]
Dear Reader,Non-farm payrolls in March in the USA were weak. I expect a very weak GDP reading for the first quarter of 2015. Overall, I forecast US GDP to grow no more than 2.5% year on year in 2015. Actually, I think the growth year on year of US GDP for 2015 will be closer to 2.0% than to 2.5%.That […]
China central bank governor’s indications about additional monetary stimulus and a slew of new deals in the healthcare sector helped benchmarks start the holiday shortened week on a positive note. China’s move to ease lending requirements for buying a second home also added to the bullish sentiment. While all 10 sectors of the S&P 500 ended in the green, 28 […]
