PrintSubscribeinvestingQ-and-A with Charles Schwab CEO Walt BettingerBy Mark Hamrick • Bankrate.comQuick question: Who is the CEO of Charles Schwab Corp.? If you guessed Charles Schwab, you’d be wrong. But you’d have plenty of company. Schwab started his company in 1971, but for the past five years the CEO has been Walt Bettinger.From Schwab’s San Francisco headquarters, Bettinger leads nearly 14,000 […]
Today was the first truly bad day of 2014 for the stock market. The Dow closed down 175, although off the lows, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 shed half a percent each. In the recent past, these have been shrugged off. But that was in the pre-taper environment, when dips were scarce and corrections were federally outlawed.
Today “felt” different […]
In the movie adaption of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’ book about the Oakland Athletics, a nebbishy Jonah Hill describes the concept of moneyball like this to Brad Pitt’s beleaguered Billy Beane: “People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to […]
by David John Marotta and Megan RussellKeynesian economists have cited the rising U.S. stock market as evidence that the economy is picking up steam. Then they’ve been surprised by the unemployment and lack of hiring. The stock market, despite record highs, is not correlated to the performance of the overall economy.The misery index is an economic indicator of unemployment plus […]
YouTube/VolvoSee AlsoTwo Multi-Level Marketing Stocks Are Getting Hammered TodayShares Of NuSkin Tank After A Negative Article In China Criticizes Its Marketing PracticesMarissa Mayer’s First Major Hire Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro Is OutTrading in NuSkin was halted for the fourth time just moments ago, but has resumed to continued selling.
The stock is currently down over 30%.NuSkin has also released a […]
The speed in which information is created and put up on the Web is staggering. It will only get faster as sensors and devices, people, better tools and automation combine to move us further into the Zetabyte Era (22 figure numbers).While the information being created can help us better understand if our efforts to connect with customers and prospects are […]
Wow, what an incredible start to the year! Within the first week we saw marijuana stocks go up by 1,000%, and I’ve nailed 5 profitable Bitcoin trades in a row. Unfortunately, e-mini futures and stock indices have been a little slower, but I expect that to change this week.Recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado on January 1st, 2014. Apparently, their […]
Power, sex, pound coinsResponding to Labour’s accusations that they are fuelling poverty, betting shop owners said they were merely offering working class equivalent of City trading.Bookie Roy Hobbs said: “People who go to private school get to gamble on the stock exchange, where they shout at monitors, take cocaine in the bogs and then enjoy lobster dinners with Estonian prostitutes.“This […]
REUTERSEarlier today, Nuveen’s Bob Doll explained how he came to his 10 predictions for the markets in 2014.
Regarding stocks, he thinks it should be another up-year for the market.”On the back of very strong equity market performance in 2013, it is hard to conclude that equities haven’t “stolen” some 2014 returns,” he said. “Accordingly, while we think equities will experience […]
If you are performing well in the stock market then you are part of a small number. If you are one of the larger number who aren’t doing so well or you would like to improve you results, then I think you should look at technical analysis and perhaps do a technical analysis course.These days there are lots of technical […]
