Unlike most other stock markets, where investors are mostly institutional investors, in China, 80% of investors are small retail investors. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
China’s stock exchange regulator has imposed severe limits on stock market selling, having earlier warned of panic in the market as a range of recent government measures failed to prevent stocks plummeting a further 6%.After 10 minutes of […]
Are U.S. markets soaring to new highs for the right reasons, or are we in a stock market bubble?Two indices just hit record highs: The Nasdaq Composite reached 5,107 on May 27, and the S&P 500 climbed to 2,130.82 on May 21.But Nobel Laureate and Yale professor of economics Robert Shiller told Goldman Sachs on May 29 that while he […]
By Michael Snyder, on May 31st, 2015Are stocks overvalued? By just about any measure that you could possibly name, stocks are at historically high prices right now. From a technical standpoint, the stock market is more overvalued today than it was just prior to the last financial crisis. The only two moments in U.S. history that even compare to […]
PBS NewshourRobert Shiller.There isn’t a full-on stock market bubble breaking out, but it sort of looks like it. In an interview with Goldman Sachs’ Allison Nathan this weekend, Yale professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller was asked if the stock market is currently in a bubble. Shiller wouldn’t go so far as to say we’re definitely in a bubble, but said there are […]
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When I was in college I took an economics class where the professor put up a chart showing the historical price movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.He then put up another chart that looked almost identical to the first one. Every time the Dow went up the other chart went […]
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Nonfinancial corporations haven’t raised any net capital in the stock market for 21 straight years.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — There’s something seriously wrong with an economy that nurtures a few billionaires but can’t sustain the middle class.Many factors have been blamed for the plummeting fortunes of the American middle class: globalization, technology, deregulation, easy credit, the winner-take-all economy, and even the inevitable […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedIt’s easy to grin when your ships comes in and you have the stock market beat…but a man worthwhile is a man that can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat..
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I miss Ted Knight. I know this quote by heart and I learned it before I cared about stocks and markets. I […]
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Stock prices relative to earnings are very expensive. This is reflected by the high price-earnings (PE) ratio.One closely-followed version of the PE ratio is Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio, which is calculated by taking the S&P 500 and dividing it by the average of ten years worth of earnings. If the ratio is above the long-term average of […]
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ArchivesSee AlsoOne Of Warren Buffett’s Top Investing TipsInvesting Alone Can’t Secure Your RetirementThis Is The Clearest Picture We’ve Seen Of What The Stock Market Could Look Like In 2015The world’s stock markets suddenly look wobbly.So it seems a good time to remind everyone that, if stocks suddenly crash, say, 30%-50%, it should not come as a surprise.Why?Because based on valuation […]
