Stocks were generally lower on the day, Monday, lead by large cap names. Trading levels were light, and there were pockets of strength in growth areas. I found quite a few biotech names that looked strong, even though the IBB was negative on the day. The index, along with small cap indexes does not look as broken as the large […]
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 […]
When an already attractive company in the small cap biotech space announces positive developments, it can take the market weeks or even months to price the news into the shares. Bret Jensen identifies three cheap companies with strong catalysts to power the next leg of their rallies.There are few things more exciting than buying a small biotech stock just before […]
Stock Market Crash – Are We Heading For 1987 All Over Again?Stock-Markets / Stock Market CrashJun 06, 2015 – 10:58 PM GMTBy: Toby_ConnorHistory has been pretty clear. When the Fed prints too much money, and holds interest rates too low for too long, it eventually it creates a bubble followed by a market crash. It happened in 2000 with tech […]
As we predicted last August, Evolent Health stock will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.The shares will debut at $17 under the ticker symbol “EVH”. Evolent will likely have a market cap of more than $800 million.J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. are acting as joint bookrunners for the offering. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, William Blair & Company, […]
Foreign investors already can invest in China. The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect was launched last November, and it allows such investors to trade Shanghai A shares through the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mainland investors also gained access to Hong Kong shares, known as H shares.”China’s opening up could be the surprise story of 2015,” said Michelle Gibley, director of international […]
Stock Trading Alert: More Uncertainty Following Last Month’s Move Up – Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, Jun 4, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on June 4, 2015, 6:02 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook […]
Stock markets around the world have been on an extended bull run for a long time now, but economists are getting increasingly worried that it could soon be coming to an end.Two new charts, from Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, show that shares are in too-good-to-be-true territory and that if history is anything to go by, they’re […]
We often hear that the stock market provides a good indication of the health of an economy. It may be time to rethink that notion.The best performing stock market in the world this year, up over 200%, is none other than Venezuela. The Caracas Index has more than quintupled over the past year and has doubled over the past two […]
You Don’t Know Where the Stock Market is Heading!Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 02, 2015 – 09:20 PM GMTBy: Bob_LoukasI’ve been of two minds recently regarding the current Cycle picture in equities. So this week I focused more attention on finding secondary evidence to support a more definitive position ondirection. As I suspected it might, my research provided an almost […]
