The flotation will be sweetened by a pledge to ordinary retail investors that they will receive one free share for every 20 they hold on to for a year, up to the value of £2,000.Lloyds is selling approximately a quarter of the business and up to a fifth of that is expected to be purchased by retail investors.TSB, which can […]
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Published on May 24th, 2014 |
by Jo Borrás
Was Washington’s GM Stock Sale a Case of Insider Trading?
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Stock Market Sour Surprise Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 22, 2014 – 01:05 PM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: On Monday, I explained why, when you’re considering investment ideas, you should always keep the bond market in mind. That’s because stocks and bonds are inextricably interconnected.They’re inextricably interconnected because interest […]
U.S. Bond Market Warning to Stock Market TradersStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 18, 2014 – 03:59 PM GMTBy: Investment_U
Christopher Rowe writes: The 10-year Treasury note just fell to a seven-month low and is a hair away from an 11-month low. This week’s chart compares the S&P 500 to the Treasury rate for a 10-year period. The chart […]
The Dow and the S&P 500 closed at record highs on Monday primarily boosted by gains in Internet and bio-tech stocks. Merger and acquisition activity in the food industry too boosted investor sentiment. The day’s economic report was limited to Treasury budget, which reported a surplus of $107.0 billion.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure […]
Continuing their recent stop-and-go pattern of trading, U.S. stock prices fell sharply Friday, taking the major market indexes into negative territory for the week and, for many of them, for the year to date as well. The Dow declined 140 points or 0.8% Friday, matching the S&P 500′s 0.8% drop. NASDAQ, on renewed selling in internet stocks, lost 1.8% for […]
Originally published April 4, 2014 at 6:41 AM | Page modified April 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM
NEW YORK — A slump in Internet and other technology stocks pulled the broader market lower Friday, as traders turned on the same companies they flocked to earlier this year. Google, Netflix and other pillars of the Internet economy took […]
The Stock Market and Pessimistic Press HeadlinesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Mar 20, 2014 – 08:52 AM GMTBy: Doug_Wakefield
Do you remember the following headline from the fall of 2011?”In the Absence of a Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown in Two or Three Weeks” [states] Dr. Robert Shapiro, Advisor to the IMF, Zero Hedge, […]
Negative news from Asia got stocks off on the wrong foot on Monday to start the week. A late rally in the last hour of trading fell just short of lifting any of the major U.S. averages into positive territory, with both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ ending the day down less than 0.1% after having been lower by 0.5% […]
Stock markets around the world are headed lower to begin the trading week.In the United States, the S&P 500 index is trading around 1868, down 0.5%. During Friday’s session, the index hit an all-time high of 1883.57. The German DAX is leading European indices lower, down 1.2%. Asian markets closed lower overnight as well.The U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen […]
