In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Red Jahncke argues that the recent drop in U.S. stock markets may be a delayed response to a tax change:In late 2012, investors sold huge amounts of investments with long-term capital gains to take advantage of the expiring 15% “Bush” long-term capital-gains tax rate before the current 23.8% rate for higher-income investors took effect […]
Dismal earnings results and weak forecasts weighed heavily on the benchmarks once again, dragging them down on Friday. Markets finished in the red to post their worst monthly performance in over a year. It was also the benchmarks’ first monthly decline since last August. Energy and consumer discretionary sectors were among the biggest losers on Friday.For a look at the […]
U.S. stocks are sliding and yields are plummeting as Treasuries surge following the release of much worse than expected manufacturing survey data from the Institute of Supply Management.The headline index from the ISM report tumbled to 51.3 from December’s 56.5 reading, indicative of a sharp slowdown in American manufacturing in January. The consensus Wall Street estimate called for a much […]
Lojko: social media mattersHelping traders to understand input from social media can be a key differentiating factor, according to Albert Lojko, head of content strategy, data management and delivery at Thomson Reuters.Lojko previously worked at online trading company Tradeweb, where he was involved in building the site’s trading platform. He joined Thomson Reuters and began work on its Eikon trading […]
Is February a Risk-On or Risk-Off Trade: Equities or Gold and Bonds By: Chris Vermeulen | Sun, Feb 2, 2014 SharePrintEmailRecent price action in the stock market has many traders on edge. With the
market closing below our key support trend line last week, the market has now
technically starting a down trend.While trend lines are a great […]
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Now that January has disappointed, market forecasts for 2014 have become less favorable (i.e. “January Effect”). Last month I forecast a 16% loss in 2014 while others were forecasting gains. I’m not saying “I told you so” but I would like to add some more justification for my prediction.As shown in the next graph, Wall Street is forecasting gains of […]
Federal Reserve’s decision to further trim the economic stimulus plan dealt a heavy blow to benchmarks yesterday, which were already suffering following dismal earnings releases earlier in the day. Benchmarks hit multi-months low and S&P 500 is now at its worst monthly performance since May 2012.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s […]
As long as there have been markets, people have been driven by greed to make irrational investment decisions. When enough people get in on the action, valuations — the prices of securities — go haywire, soaring to obscene heights and then crashing in a shower of crushed dreams.Chasing performance, taking on excessive risk and selling at inopportune times are all […]
http://www.StockMarketFunding.com Learn How To Trade Shares of AAPL Earnings Miss Down $40 (VIDEO). Learn how to make money trading shares of Apple in after hours through this live trading education tutorial video.Shares of Apple dropped $44.46 in after hours to close at $506.04 down 8.08%. Apple shares got slammed as their revenue forecast fell short of Wall Street expectations. Apple […]
