REUTERS/Alfred Cheng JinBen Bernanke.Does former Fed chair Ben Bernanke think the stock market is undervalued? Bernanke has a new blog post out on Monday. The post deals with inequality, primarily as it relates to Fed policy. On this topic, Bernanke isn’t sure that it’s obvious Fed policy exacerbated any inequality trends. But in his post, Bernanke also addresses the stock market.Specifically, Bernanke isn’t […]
Stock Market Continues Defying Gravity, Dow New All Time HighStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 19, 2015 – 03:09 AM GMTBy: Nadeem_WalayatThe stock market continues to confound the doom merchants who have long since convinced themselves that another crash, collapse or bear market was always imminent. Which in many cases is not just for the whole of this year but for […]
Don’t Fret About Tobin’s QBloomberg has a piece this morning on another valuation indictor, this time it’s Tobin’s Q, showing that the stock market is dramatically overvalued.
If you sold every share of every company in the U.S. and used the money to buy up all the factories, machines and inventory, you’d have some cash left over. That, in a nutshell, […]
View All3 Potent Biotech Stocks That Could Pop on EarningsLike golf, investing in biotech stocks can be cruel game. As Michael A. Gayed explains, the pricing dynamic of individual biotech stocks will often follow the perceived successes — or failures — of drug trials and the multiple approval procedures enforced by regulatory agencies.Source: ©iStock.com/twilightproductionsThis Wild West mentality is primarily the […]
View All4 Biotech Stocks Poised to Jump 15%It’s been something of a lackluster week for the broad market — but biotech has really shined.Source: FlickrWhile the S&P 500 was up just 1.3% as of Wednesday afternoon, biotechs as a group outperformed, gaining nearly 2.5%.7 Small-Cap Healthcare Stocks Set to Soar
This sector is famous for being a volatile one, so timing […]
Biotech investors have been here before.
Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%.
And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell off we saw in the sector […]
Related CLDXWhy Cowen & Co Likes Celldex Therapeutics Following Its FDA ‘Breakthrough’Biotech Stocks Moving HigherCelldex Therapeutics(Investor’s Business Daily)Related BLRXMorning Market GainersBenzinga’s Top #PreMarket GainersRoth Capital Weighs In On 5 Biotech Stocks To Watch(Seeking Alpha)As the biotech sector becomes more volatile, analyst Joseph Pantginis of Roth Capital points out that it is increasingly necessary to “focus on names with definitive catalysts.”Though […]
Momentum Stocks: Caution Ahead (Part 4 of 6)(Continued from Part 3)Another case in point is biotech.Biotech is another obvious example of the momentum trade. It is a high “beta” or risky industry that has been a strong relative performer for many years. Through the close of the week ended March 20, the Nasdaq Biotech Index had surged 20% year-to-date. The following […]
shuttyConfounded by this wacky stock market? You’re not alone.Robert Shiller, the 69-year-old acclaimed economist who helped create the Case-Shiller home-price index, is having a tough time deciphering this U.S. stock market too.The 2013 Nobel laureate and Yale University economics professor told MarketWatch that this volatile, post-financial-crisis market, in which interest rates have been at or near zero since 2008, is […]
Has the U.S. stock market been strong or weak so far in 2015? As the above three charts from the excellent FinViz site indicate, the answer very much depends on the segment of the market you’ve been following and trading.With respect to stock sectors, consumer discretionary and healthcare shares have performed well. Note the strength in housing stocks (XHB) and […]
