Cuba once had a stock market, the La Bolsa de Valores de la Habana, which lasted from the 1920s until 1959, when the Cuban revolution ended private ownership in the country. The Havana exchange was, in fact, one of the largest stock exchanges in Latin America.Now, as President Obama moves the U.S. closer to ending the 60-year-old trade embargo with […]
ShutterstockThe stock market appears headed for one of those points again when investors lose money, and a lot of it.Sure, the day-to-day moves of the market can cost investors at any time, but this is more about the correction, downturn or something bigger that many experts feel is on the horizon.In those times of heightened market tension, investors lose ground […]
Fed Shies Away From June Rate Hike (Hilsenrath)
Europe Stocks Fall Most in Three Weeks Amid Greece as Banks Drop (BBG)
China Futures Tumble on Trust Curbs, Expansion of Short Selling (BBG)
Oil slips below $64 as ample supplies weigh (Reuters)
Fed officials lean all ways on rate hikes, data in focus (Reuters)
Eurozone deflation eases in March (FT)
U.K. Jobless Claims Hit 40-Year Low as […]
Benchmarks ended higher on Wednesday following rise in oil prices and upbeat earnings results. While, energy shares gained as domestic crude oil price closed at the highest level this year, investors cheered mostly positive first quarter earnings results. Meanwhile, European Central Bank’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged while continuing with its asset purchasing program added to the bullish sentiment.For […]
Stock Market Poised for a Flash CrashStock-Markets / Financial CrashApr 15, 2015 – 07:56 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiMy earlier thesis of an unfinished retracement in SPX hit the nail on the head. Note that it didn’t go above the March 23 high, verifying the weakening uptrend. I recalibrated the Megaphone formation and verified it as an Orthodox Broadening top rather than […]
Tech Media Alert; Adoption of Smart Wallets; Apple Pay, Google Wallet and Wocket (NASDAQ:NXTD); Ultimately Consumers Will Have the Final DecisionNEW YORK – April 13, 2015 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Investorideas.com (http://www.investorideas.com), a global news source covering leading sectors including mobile payments and biometrics reports on user experience and the adoption of new payment technologies including Apple Pay, Google Wallet and the […]
NEW YORK — Expectations that the Federal Reserve will be slow to raise interest rates, spurred by a weak jobs report last week, helped send the stock market up Monday. A jump in the price of crude oil set off a rally in energy stocks.The stock market was closed Friday, the day the Labor Department reported that employers added just […]
Today’s Stock Market Rally Only Makes Things WorseStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 06, 2015 – 05:18 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiThe Primary Dealers are using this morning’s action as another selling opportunity. A lot of retail traders had layered in buy orders all the way down to 2050.00 which may have been filled on Friday. This is a ready market for the […]
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Adrees Latif /ReutersIran’s President Hassan Rouhani gives a news conference on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York September 26, 2014.TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Tehran Stock Exchange has rallied after world powers clinched a nuclear framework agreement with Tehran, reflecting hopes that some crippling international […]
Academia Sinica is Taiwan’s highest-ranking research institution.Academia Sinica is considered the premier research institute here in Taiwan. Can you talk to us about the role of Academia Sinica in the research for new drug discoveries?Dr. Chi-Huey Wong (C-HW): The academy is the highest-ranking research institution here in Taiwan, and we are involved in cutting edge research in the fields of […]
