Long story short… yes, there appears to be a relationship between economic growth and stock market performance within the U.S. (and developed world), but that relationship holds only over longer periods of time and does not hold for all countries (less developed countries often “divert” growth to the political elite). Also, for those interested in the relationship between long-term economic […]
A series of unsettling trends from soaring debt to falling spending suggest a U.S. stock market crash in 2015 looks increasingly likely.Lately the six-year bull market has been looking tired. Despite a lot of volatility, stocks overall are flat on the year.Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 are both within 3% of their all-time […]
For years, satirical late-night TV host Stephen Colbert has been running a series on his show called “Better Know a District,” which highlights one of the 435 U.S. congressional districts and its representative. While I am no Stephen Colbert, I ;am ;brutally inquisitive when it comes to the 5,000-plus listed companies on the U.S. stock exchanges.That’s why I’ve made it […]
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall. By any objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble territory. Anyone should be able to see this – all you have to do is look at the charts. Sadly, most of us never seem to learn from history. Most of […]
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Adrees Latif /ReutersIran’s President Hassan Rouhani gives a news conference on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York September 26, 2014.TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Tehran Stock Exchange has rallied after world powers clinched a nuclear framework agreement with Tehran, reflecting hopes that some crippling international […]
Source: “11g poker chips” by Logan Ingalls from South Boston, MA, USA. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsGive up now if you’re looking for a totally safe biotech stock. They don’t exist.But if you’re looking for a biotech stock that is relatively safe compared to most others, that’s a different story. And there’s one biotech that is arguably the […]
At the recent Israel Investment Seminar in New York, Yossi Beinart, head of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, spoke of plans to attract investors, including a move to allow Israeli companies to adopt Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures, or GAAP.In addition, the exchange, in conjunction with BlueStar Indexes, announced the TASE-BlueStar Israel Global Technology Index, which will track 57 major technology […]
Online retail trading surged 239 percent to Bt1 trillion ($30.72 billion) in February from a year earlier, the latest available data from the stock exchange shows. That was the biggest increase since March 2010. Those transactions account for over 40 percent of total trading volumes, up from 27 per cent in 2012. That ratio exceeds even Hong Kong, where retail […]
Hosting and web domain-registration company GoDaddy made its debut today on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GDDY, with shares becoming available at $26.15, up about 30.8 percent from the $20 price at which the company sold shares for its initial public offering.The debut price is also higher than the $17-19 range that GoDaddy set for its stock shares two […]
We won’t be buying or selling shares in Quindell (LSE: QPP) this morning. The firm requested that trading on AIM for its securities be temporarily suspended from 9:40am, pending an announcement and publication of a document.Cancelled tradesSome share trades that went through between 9.40 am and 9.42 am were later cancelled and the counterparties notified, the London Stock Exchange said.News […]
