Markets ended on a high on Tuesday to seal its best yearly performance in a period extending over nearly one and a half decades. Investors were able to look beyond concerns and focus on economic growth numbers and Fed stimulus measures through this year. Benchmarks ended on new highs on many occasions through 2013 and the last day of the […]
Encouraging holiday season sales numbers and labor data helped the Dow and S&P 500 continue their record run on Thursday. Initial claims dropped for the week ending Dec 21 and holidays sales were reported to have improved between Nov 1 and Dec 24 period. Positive holiday sales numbers lifted the retail sector into the green and was among the major […]
The Christmas week started on a positive note as the Dow and S&P 500 hit all-time highs buoyed by news of a key deal involving Apple and consumer sentiment reaching a five-month peak. The all-day bullish sentiment was also aided by indications from IMF that it would upgrade the U.S.’s economic outlook. The tech-laden Nasdaq also listed itself in the […]
Originally published December 24, 2013 at 5:57 AM | Page modified December 25, 2013 at 2:52 AM
NEW YORK — Stocks rose in a holiday-shortened trading day Tuesday, helped by a report that showed American companies were investing in their businesses at the fastest pace since January.Markets were open for just half a day ahead of the Christmas holiday, […]
As 2013 winds down, it’s only natural for people to make personal New Year’s resolutions for 2014. It’s also a perfect time for technology industry predictions. This is the first installation in our multi-part “Technology Predictions for 2014″ series in which industry providers—from Big Data to cloud to mobile—share their predictions about the hot tech trends that will take center […]
Wikimedia CommonsStocks are going up.It’s time to stop reflecting on 2013 and start thinking about 2014.
We thumbed through hundreds of pages of Wall Street’s 2014 outlook notes and compiled the thoughts of 14 top stock market forecasters.The average S&P 500 call was 1,949, with a median of 1,950. For EPS, the mean was $118 and median call was $116.Here are […]
Do Stock Market Valuations Matter?December 9, 2013
Ron DeLegge, EditorEvery single day we are barraged with an array of conflicting data about the stock market. Stocks are expensive, says Guru A. In the same conversation, Guru B proclaims, Stocks are cheap. With the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) hitting all-time highs, do stock valuations matter? Using reported price-to-earnings ratios (P/E) for the trailing […]
Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for the past month, which is 1783.54. The ratios in parentheses use the monthly close of 1805.81. For the earnings, see the table below created from Standard & […]
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I think most investors would agree that as the year began they did not expect the Standard & Poor’s 500 to have risen 27% by Thanksgiving. Stocks have continually worked their way higher, with the only meaningful corrections occurring in June, August and October when the talk of reducing the $85 billion a month monetary easing program picked up (June, […]
