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5 Defensive High-Yield Dividends That Should Withstand the Next …

5 Defensive High-Yield Dividends That Should Withstand the Next Stock Market CorrectionBy Jon C. Ogg August 10, 2015 12:25 pm EDTPrintEmail Investors may have found a breather as the new week got off to a start, but the reality is that some investors started to get nervous after more than a week’s worth of losses. As investors get nervous about […]

5 Defensive High-Yield Dividends Should Withstand the Next Stock …

5 Defensive High-Yield Dividends That Should Withstand the Next Stock Market CorrectionBy Jon C. Ogg August 10, 2015 12:25 pm EDTPrintEmail Investors may have found a breather as the new week got off to a start, but the reality is that some investors started to get nervous after more than a week’s worth of losses. As investors get nervous about […]

The Stock Market Will Start To Fall In July? The Dow Plummeted …

The Stock Market Will Start To Fall In July? The Dow Plummeted More Than 500 Points Last Week
By Michael Snyder, on July 26th, 2015Was last week a preview of things to come? There are quite a few people out there that believe that the stock market would begin to decline in July, and that appears to be precisely what […]

Stocks Suffer Worst Week Of Year Amid Biotech Bloodbath, Commodity Carnage, & Bond Buying

This seemed appropriate…But “everything was awesome”?Russell 2000 -3.1% – worst week since Oct 2014 (Bullard)
Dow -2.8% – worst week since Dec 2014
S&P -2.1% – worst week since Jan 2015
Trannies -2.8% – worst week since Mar 2015
Nasdaq -2.2% – worst week since Mar 2015
Who is to blame for all this?Leaving The Dow comfortably red year-to-date…This is notable.. VIX was pressed notably […]

11 Ways to Protect Yourself From a Summer Stock Market Sell-Off …

How to Protect Yourself From a Summer Stock Market Correction or CrashBy Jon C. Ogg June 9, 2015 10:35 am EDTPrintEmail It is now June, and the echoes of “sell in May and go away” are still ringing. In fact, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went negative for the year on June 8. With the bull market now more than […]

7 Signs That A Stock Market Peak Is Happening Right Now | Zero …

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,Is this the end of the last great run for the U.S. stock market? Are we witnessing classic “peaking behavior” that is similar to what occurred just before other major stock market crashes? Throughout 2014 and for the early stages of 2015, stocks have been on quite a tear. Even though the […]

ETF Investing: This 6-year-old bull market’s big winners: biotech, pharma and value stocks

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The current bull market is marking its sixth birthday, and a few slices of the stock market have more reason to celebrate than others.Who really deserves to whoop it up? Biotech and pharma ETFs, value ETFs that aim to find bargains, and ETFs targeting consumer-discretionary or retail stocks.The 10 ETFs that have performed best since the […]

Stocks Inch Higher As Draghi Dreams Trump Dismal Data

China growth slashed, more epically dismal US data, lack of clarity from Draghi, slumping oil prices, dropping yields, surging USD… now if that isn’t a recipe for buying US equities at record highs, we don’t know what is…Stocks close unchanged from ECB…And on the day only Trannies closed red (even as oil tumbled) thanks to an aftenoon push higher…On the […]

YC Startup Direct Match Aims To Make Bond Trading As Easy As …

Jim Greco sat in front of his computer at Jeffries Investment Bank headquarters in New York and thought about the futility of his bond trading job. He was about to pull up a file on his PC and then make a physical phone call to another institution to place an order for a bond transaction. Something needed to be done.Unlike the stock […]

STTG Market Recap Feb 10, 2015 – Stock Trading To Go

A solid day for the indexes as the market gapped up at the open and buyers filled in all day.  The S&P 500 gained 1.07% and the NASDAQ 1.30%.  Jens Weidmann, head of Germany’s Bundesbank, held to an austerity line and told Reuters on Tuesday that Greece needed to make a credible effort to recover itself with tighter public finances […]