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Biotech stocks had a banner year in 2014. Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIO ), Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVNR ) and OvaScience, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVAS ), for example, each rose roughly 400%.Indeed, each year brings another set of home run stock picks in this sector, thanks to the twin pillars of FDA approval and promising clinical trial results.Trying to handicap […]
TraderFeed: A Different Way of Tracking Stock Market Strength With Technical Indicators
A Different Way of Tracking Stock Market Strength With Technical IndicatorsSuppose we think of technical indicators as measures of strength and weakness, with each giving buy and sell signals based upon different time frames and definitions of strength. One way to assess the overall strength of the stock market […]
VIDEO UPDATE: Watch the market report here!Despite more or less doing what was rumored yesterday, the actions by the European Central Bank this morning set indexes on fire. This has been a consistent pattern for years now. One day it will not have the same effect but until that day comes traders will react in knee jerk reaction. The S&P […]
Indexes continue to struggle and it remains a period to be cautious. Unlike the prior 2 sessions when we saw serious spikes in the premarket, today the market was down severely premarket and that weakness continued all day until mid afternoon when some buyers showed up to relieve some of the pressure. Still the S&P 500 fell 0.58% and the […]
Watch tonight’s video market recap on my Ticker.tv channel, Mark333.Another day of selling an up open hit the market Tuesday. Yesterday we had a premarket push and that was sold off within minutes at the open. Today we had an even larger premarket rally and a big push up to begin the day, but sellers came in again mid day […]
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Investor confidence that the US will avoid a stock-market crash in the next six months has dropped dramatically since last spring.The Yale School of Management publishes a monthly Crash Confidence Index. The index shows the proportion of investors who believe we will avoid a stock-market crash in the next six months.Yale points out that “crash confidence reached its all-time […]
We had some technical difficulties tonight so no market recap video today but I posted an idea session last night where we looked at some recent winners to see which names might be good ideas go forward, on my Ticker.tv channel, Mark333.Indexes opened down as oil weighed, and stayed weak all day in a quite miserable session. Investors have become […]
The bull market is nearing six years old. It turns out that the biotech sector again managed a huge outperforming year in 2014 as well. The gains of the key biotech exchange traded funds (ETFs) were up in the 40% range, with the NYSE Arca Biotech index up over 45% year-to-date. The equal-weight biotech ETF performed better than the key larger […]
Best and worst ETFs in 2014
Best & worst ETFs in 2014
CNBC’s Bob Pisani discusses what was behind the strong performance of biotech ETFs in 2014 and if the NYSE will be sold off in 2015.
The exchange-traded fund winners this year were biotech and mainland China. It was a home run for biotech across the three largest ETFs.SPDR Biotech, an equal-weighted […]
