Better-than-expected economic data in the United States this morning have lifted stocks to new all-time highs as Treasuries slide, sending yields racing higher.The S&P 500 index is trading up 0.5% at 1862, a new intraday record high. 10-year U.S. Treasury futures, meanwhile, are 0.4% lower, and the yield on the 10-year note is 2.69%, 5 basis points below Thursday’s close.ISM-Chicago’s […]
United’s season sunk to a new low in Athens last night as Olympiakos grabbed a 2-0 last-16 Champions League advantage.And this morning social media has been awash with speculation that Moyes and United could be set to part company.Trading expert Miles Eakers claims the market talk in New York is that Moyes will leave United today.Bookmakers have responded by slashing […]
Merger and acquisition activities and a rally in health insurers took benchmarks to their record highs on Monday. A buoyant German confidence report also had a positive impact on the markets. The benchmarks ended in the green with the S&P 500 briefly reaching its all-time high. The Nasdaq ended the day at a fourteen-year high.For a look at the issues […]
How to Detect Stock Market TopsInvestorEducation / Technical AnalysisFeb 20, 2014 – 04:18 PM GMTBy: Investment_U
Chris Rowe wites: As I noted last week, bull market tops are often characterized by a breakdown of the sector that had led the market higher (like tech stocks in 2000 or financial stocks in 2007).Another clue in our hunt for the […]
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By: DailyForex.comGold prices rose %1.9 over the course of the week as dull economic numbers out of the United States and skepticism about the sustainability of the stock market rally increased desire for the relative safety of gold. The XAU/USD pair advanced to as high as 1271.59 after data released by the Labor Department showed that the […]
Stock Market Sell-Off Gives Us “Miracle Material” Bargain Of The YearStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 08, 2014 – 03:10 PM GMTBy: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: I was one of the first analysts to pronounce this as the “Golden Age of Materials Science.”You know what I’m talking about – all those “Miracle Materials” that […]
Often when a strong sell-off hits the stock market, the first stocks to go are the big momentum stocks that hedge funds often chase for performance and alpha. Right behind them you can often find the small-cap biotech stocks that have huge promise but do not fit well when there is a risk-off mentality. The recent sell-off, which totaled almost […]
Brokers balked at a stock exchange study that could lead to the introduction of circuit breakers to protect against flash trading of stocks – which can send shares gyrating wildly – saying Hong Kong has adequate suspension rules in place already.Securities and Futures Commission executive director Keith Lui told the South China Morning Post last week that the SFC supports […]
Bond Market Signals Worse Than Orderly Stock Market Sell-Off
By Jon C. Ogg February 3, 2014 4:38 pm EST
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Goldman Sachs and other investment firms warned that the market was getting more and more at risk of a 10% stock market correction, with the caveat that stocks would resume the bull market thereafter. Now we have the bond market signaling that things […]
Richard Drew / APTrader Frank O’Connell works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.The stock market is getting a little bumpy as the government shutdown wears on, but if Congress pushes a deadline on the federal debt limit in two weeks, you can buckle up for something much scarier — maybe even a replay of the […]
