MOST investors and stock market traders actually do not understand what influences the price movement of the stock market. I know that I have expressed that same idea so many times but it bothers me to hear the misconceptions that people in the stock market hold.People become confused because there are so many different ‘reasons’ that the experts give for […]
I’ve read an interesting article on CNN Money, called: 7 stocks Wall Street thinks will soar this year.The author introduced seven stocks about which the Wall-Street guys seeing good upside potential this year.Normally, I don’t care about those articles, especially when I see that Tesla, Facebook or some Biotech’s are recommend but this time, I agree with five stocks from […]
Are we at the tail end of the stock market bubble to end all stock market bubbles? Wall Street was full of glee Monday when the Nasdaq closed above 5000 for the first time since the peak of the dotcom bubble in March 2000. And almost everyone in the financial world seems convinced that things are somehow “different” this time […]
MRK -0.30%ABT +0.13%AMGN +0.40%Health care stocks were mostly higher, with the NYSE Health Care Sector Index climbing 0.3% and shares of health care companies in the S&P 500 advancing 0.6% as a group.In company news, Athersys (ATHX) advanced Monday after the biotech company lined up Japanese drugmaker Chugai to help it develop its stem-cell therapy for stoke.Under terms of the […]
When you boil it down, the stock market isn’t much different than a game with some winners and more than a few losers. Granted, it’s a complicated game, and I wouldn’t advise you to actually hand over your hard earned money to anyone who considers it just a game. But basically, it is a game.The stock market has rules and patterns […]
When you boil it down, the stock market isn’t much different than a game with some winners and more than a few losers. Granted, it’s a complicated game, and I wouldn’t advise you to actually hand over your hard earned money to anyone who considers it just a game. But basically, it is a game.The stock market has rules and patterns […]
After a drug receives FDA approval, shareholders expect significant sales will soon follow. However, since obtaining an FDA approval does not remove all of the obstacles to sales, it is often the case that initial sales fall below expectations and the stock drops accordingly. Afrezza’s launch is about to give us just this kind of opportunity to buy MannKind.Buying high […]
While conflicting economic data leaves hope for both buills and bears, Alan Greenspan warns that, unlike Yellen, “US economic growth is not strong.” He then slays another pillar – suggesting the exuberant job growth is anything but (as he focuses on weak productivity as he pinpoints entitlements as “crowding out capital investment” in America. The maestro then breaks the golden […]
View photo.By and large, short interest among the leading biotechs and emerging pharmaceuticals reversed course and rose again between the January 30 and February 13 settlement dates.Leading that trend were Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX).Below we take a quick look at how these three stocks have fared recently and what […]
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Stock prices relative to earnings are very expensive. This is reflected by the high price-earnings (PE) ratio.One closely-followed version of the PE ratio is Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio, which is calculated by taking the S&P 500 and dividing it by the average of ten years worth of earnings. If the ratio is above the long-term average of […]
