Not long ago, if the Los Angeles Clippers had wanted to figure out how to best defend Golden State Warriors star guard Steph Curry, they might have sent a scout to a game or watched video clips. For their recent first-round playoff matchup, they had another way.
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My colleague Ryan Cooper argues that one key factor in millennials missing out on the current stock market boom is distrust in the financial system. Like very many millennials, he is apprehensive about becoming an investor, and cites numerous financial scandals from the past five years as events that have influenced this view:I hear “we’ll help you design the investment […]
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Benchmarks suffered their worst losses in five weeks on Thursday, dragged down by declines in small-cap stocks and Wal-Mart’s disappointing numbers. The S&P 500 slumped the most in a month and the Dow registered its biggest drop since April 10. Investors were also concerned about Euro zone’s less-than-expected first quarter GDP growth.For a look at the issues currently facing the […]
Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA stock trader monitoring share prices in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Monday.MUMBAI, India — The benchmark Indian stock market indexes rose to a third consecutive record on Tuesday after exit polls forecast that the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party would win with a large majority, making Narendra Modi, a leader with a business-friendly reputation, the next prime minister […]
The question of the day is relatively straightforward at this time: Will we see a meaningful decline (defined as a loss of -10 percent or more) on the S&P 500 in the near term or not?From the bears’ perspective, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.” Our furry friends cite the ongoing mo-mo meltdown [Social Media (SOCL), Internet (FDN), and Biotech […]
Watch for Stock Market Sell SignalsStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 10, 2014 – 10:54 AM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX reversed back down beneath Short-term resistance at 1876.23. The balance of all the supports are just beneath this morning’s low at 1867.02. The Ending Diagonal Trendline is at 1865.00. Either the supports or the trendline may be […]
There are many ways to assess the state of the stock market.You could take the fundamental approach and consider a wide array of variables to derive an actual value based on projected profits and cash flows. You could take the technical approach and consider price chart patterns.You could also focus on sentiment, which is somewhere in between the fundamental […]
Originally published April 25, 2014 at 6:38 AM | Page modified April 26, 2014 at 9:56 PM
NEW YORK — The stock market fell sharply Friday, dragged down by disappointing quarterly results from Amazon and Ford. Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine also weighed on the market.Worried investors sold their risky assets and moved into the […]
IBM unveiled new Power Systems servers Wednesday, leveraging POWER8 technology for a new era of big data and open innovation. Through the OpenPOWER Foundation, IBM also released detailed technical specifications for its POWER8 processor, inviting collaborators and competitors alike to innovate on the processor and server platform.The new scale-out IBM Power Systems servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment, three-plus years of development and […]
