NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market pulled back slightly Tuesday, following two days of gains, as investors focused on the damage that ongoing geopolitical tensions were causing the global economy.Energy stocks were among the biggest decliners, dragged down by lower oil prices.U.S. stock indexes opened modestly higher but turned lower at mid-morning and stayed there for the rest of […]
Benchmarks ended in the green yesterday following hopes that tensions between Russia and Ukraine would recede. Encouraging corporate news, ceasefire agreement in Gaza and subdued Chinese inflation data also boosted the markets.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) rose 0.1%, to close […]
NEW YORK The U.S. stock market eased in afternoon trading Tuesday following two days of gains. Investors focused on problems in Ukraine and Iraq.Energy stocks were among the biggest decliners, dragged down by lower oil prices.KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 16,557 as of 1:25 p.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s […]
NEW YORK The stock market pulled back slightly Tuesday, following two days of gains, as investors focused on the damage that ongoing geopolitical tensions were causing the global economy.Energy stocks were among the biggest decliners, dragged down by lower oil prices.U.S. stock indexes opened modestly higher but turned lower at mid-morning and stayed there for the rest of the day. […]
Markets ended in the green on Friday as news of Russia terminating its military exercise near its border with Ukraine offset concerns about U.S airstrikes over Iraq. The Dow registered its largest gain in last 4 months on Friday. Friday’s gains helped erode all of the week’s losses as geopolitical tensions and rate hike fears offset upbeat economic and earnings […]
Benchmarks suffered their biggest losses in months on Thursday, following a default by Argentina, and a spike in US labor costs. Concerns about the European economy and Russia-Ukraine crisis also dragged the S&P 500 below a key technical level and the Dow dropped more than 300 points. Both these indices snapped their five-month streak of gains, while Nasdaq ended in […]
There have been some reports of very weak NYSE TICK statistics and the possibility those could foreshadow a stock market crash. I’ve received several requests to update my Cumulative TICK Line for readers. This consists of the summed total of five-minute high-low-close values for NYSE TICK (upticks minus downticks for all NYSE shares). As you can see, the cumulative line […]
By: Nancy Zambell of Street AuthorityA “follow-up” market crash could be coming.I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time…The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com burst. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse.It’s getting close to another seven […]
Originally published July 25, 2014 at 6:38 AM | Page modified July 26, 2014 at 3:04 AMNEW YORK —
Investors got some bad news about the American shopper on Friday, driving down stocks and sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a loss for the week.Two major U.S. companies — the retail giant Amazon and the credit card processor Visa — […]
SummaryWhile we cannot totally eliminate our bias, we can look at data objectively to reach a less biased conclusion.
Black Monday has a very significant impact on the statistical risk measures for the S&P 500.
It is justified for long-term investors to remove Black Monday from the risk analysis.
If Black Monday is included than gold has somewhat lower risk measures than stocks; […]
