Twitter Stock Trading Stopped After Earnings LeakedApril 28, 2015Wall Street briefly halted trading for Twitter stock afternoon after the company’s Q1 earnings were leaked early. The leak appeared to come from Selerity, a data science company which is in the business of finding and reporting company earnings early. Selerity works to automatically identify the URL of a company’s earnings statement before […]
Wall Street briefly halted trading for Twitter stock Tuesday afternoon after the company’s Q1 earnings were leaked early.Twitter missed analyst’s revenue projections, and the market reacted as Twitter stock quickly dipped almost 6 percent before trading was halted. Trading then resumed, and the stock finished the day down more than 18 percent.Twitter reported $436 million in revenue for the quarter; […]
The volatility in the stock market might be viewed, to quote “MacBeth,” as “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”The market has been quite choppy of late but does that truly signify an increase in volatility?This is where your measurement tools make a difference.If you look at the CBOE Volatility Index, also known as the market’s “fear gauge,” the answer […]
Dear Reader,European stocks seem to have started the 10% correction I predicted. The German DAX Index is down circa 5.5% from its peak.European ‘periphery’ government bonds seem to have started the sell off I predicted. Spanish and Italian government bonds sold off hard during the past several weeks. I think the sell off will continue and even accelerate.I expect the […]
A stock market correction, technically speaking, occurs any time a major benchmark index loses at least 10% of its value. When an index suffers losses of 20% or more, it earns the right to be called a “bear market.” On average, stock market corrections occur every 1.5 years, while bear markets occur about every nine years.Source: ©iStock.com/blewisphotographyAs you may have noticed, the U.S. […]
Biotech stocks have been on fire in 2015. In the Biotech & Pharmaceuticals sector of the Russell 2000 Growth Index, there are over sixty stocks up by more than 30% this year. More than thirty stocks are up greater than 50% while six have more than doubled.The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) is already up more than 20% less than 3 […]
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iOS: If you want to buy or sell stock, you usually have to pay a fee. At $7-$10 per transaction, they can add up. Robinhood eliminates these fees, offering free stock trading that’s incredibly simple.Generally, we’re fans of “set and forget” investing with funds, rather than individual stock investing. Right now, Robinhood lets you trade individual stocks and exchange-traded funds […]
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Remember when Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that social media and biotech stocks seemed pricey during a July 2014 testimony to Congress? “…Valuation metrics in some sectors do appear substantially stretched—particularly those for smaller firms in the social media and biotechnology industries, despite a notable downturn in equity prices for such firms early in the year,” she said.On Twitter, […]
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