The six-year bull market lives on after the S&P 500 (SPX) finished at record highs—and in a week for mediocre economic and earnings numbers.The broad-market index is now up 1.8 percent in May and 3 percent year to date. With its gain, risk perceptions seem to be easing along with market volatility.But don’t look now. Wall Street’s bullish bias faces […]
U.S. stock indexes spent Friday mostly drifting between tiny gains and losses, but the small moves were enough to nudge the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to its second record high in two days.The Dow Jones industrial average also notched a gain for the second day in a row. The Nasdaq bucked the trend, closing slightly lower.Utilities stocks were among […]
I found some very interesting information when conducting research on small-cap biotech stocks. Most disturbing: Well-respected analysts recommended an abundance of small-cap biotech stocks that have since been annihilated. My job is to give readers ideas where they can start research to not only potentially make money, but to stay away from dangerous names. It’s not going to do any […]
Last week started off ugly and could have gotten even uglier when Janet Yellen “quite high’d” the market into a tizzy. The savvy trader might have spotted her cautionary flag on uppity valuations as a reason to buy. That trader would have been rewarded handsomely when Friday’s jobs report helped to drive blue chips to their best day in more […]
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Shah GilaniIt’s easy to make money when stock prices rise.Just invest in one of the 5,000 stocks listed on major exchanges or one of the hundreds of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are already available – with more being added almost every day.But if you want to make money when the stock market crashes, it’s just as easy.Maybe even easier.Just buy […]
Khailee Ng (left) and Dinesh Bhatia (right), co-founder and CEO of TradeHeroIn the past, Tech in Asia has referred to TradeHero as one of the best startups in Singapore. The firm offers an app that lets users trade virtual money based on real-world stock market data. Essentially, it’s a game, but with interesting implications.On TradeHero, users who are less familiar […]
Twitter’s stock plunged around 20 percent following its early earnings release on Tuesday, wiping out gains achieved in the past year. The move amounted to the microblogging site’s second all-time worst day of trading, and the stock has continued to sink ever since.Brian Kelly of Brian Kelly Capital said that while the drop presented an interesting trading opportunity, the company […]
Friday was almost the complete opposite of Thursday – especially in the NASDAQ. Yesterday we wrote how it was difficult for the NASDAQ to rally without the potent combo of Apple + biotechs, which both suffered yesterday. Today both jumped and the results were predictable. The S&P 500 rallied 1.09% and the NASDAQ 1.29%. We will begin to see more […]
LinkedIn hit Wall Street’s financial expectations Thursday, but lowered its revenue guidance for next quarter as investors sent the stock down more than 25 percent during after-hours trading.LinkedIn reported 57 cents per share on $638 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2015. That’s a revenue jump of more than 35 percent over the same quarter last year.Those numbers […]
