Myles Udland
Jun. 1, 2015, 7:00 PM
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jmcangel / flickrWhen you’re reading a book on the beach this summer, don’t forget to keep an eye on these 10 big market themes.Summer is almost here, and for investors June marks the final month of the second quarter: we are almost halfway done with 2015. Right now the big questions surrounding markets are how the […]
Myles Udland
Jun. 1, 2015, 7:00 PM
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jmcangel / flickrWhen you’re reading a book on the beach this summer, don’t forget to keep an eye on these 10 big market themes.Summer is almost here, and for investors June marks the final month of the second quarter: we are almost halfway done with 2015. Right now the big questions surrounding markets are how the […]
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Robert Shiller isn’t ready to call the stock market a bubble. In an interview with Goldman Sachs published over the weekend, the Yale professor and Nobel Laureate said there is a “bubble element” to the behavior we’re seeing in the stock market. But outside of the “social epidemic” Shiller — who published his famous book “Irrational Exuberance” right before the Nasdaq […]
REUTERS/Alfred Cheng JinBen Bernanke.Does former Fed chair Ben Bernanke think the stock market is undervalued? Bernanke has a new blog post out on Monday. The post deals with inequality, primarily as it relates to Fed policy. On this topic, Bernanke isn’t sure that it’s obvious Fed policy exacerbated any inequality trends. But in his post, Bernanke also addresses the stock market.Specifically, Bernanke isn’t […]
Doug Short, Advisor PerspectivesHere’s some encouraging news for stock-market bears …Margin debt (red in the chart above) hit a new high in April.Even after adjusting for inflation, margin debt is now higher than it was at the peak of the great bull market in 2000 and the echo bull market in 2007.What is “margin debt”?It’s the amount of money stock […]
Ding Dong! The Wicked Bull Is DeadIf you follow the markets, you may have noticed a recent increase in “the bull is over” articles. While it is entirely possible the S&P 500 has already peaked, the evidence says it may be a bit early to declare the dawn of a new S&P 500 bear market.What Do The Facts Tell Us […]
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The Shanghai Composite stock index was slammed on Thursday, dropping by 6.5%.Over the last year, the Shanghai exchange has grown to be the third largest in the world.Here are the ten largest stock exchanges in the world by total market capitalization, as of April 2015, according to the World Federation of Exchanges’ monthly report. With a total end of […]
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Market complacency has re-emerged, warns Deutsche Bank’s David Bianco.His preferred measure of this is the PE / VIX ratio. (PE is short for price-earnings, a measure of stock market value. The VIX is the CBOE volatility index, a rough measure of “fear” in the stock market.)From Bianco’s note: “Our PE/VIX market emotion indicator climbed to 1.3 on S&P trailing […]
Akin Oyedele
May 8, 2015, 12:04 PM
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Facebook/Bojangles’Bojangles’ sweet tea is a staple in the South.Shares of Bojangles spiked by up to 29% on Friday, its first day on the market.The fried-chicken-and-biscuit-chain priced its IPO at $19 a share, which was at the higher range of its expectations.A Bojangles’ regulatory filing showed that it had expected to sell 7.75 million shares at between […]
RobinhoodBaiju Bhatt and Vladimir Tenev.See AlsoAndreessen Horowitz VC Chris Dixon: In the next few years, we’ll see 10 companies worth a billion dollars in New YorkSean Rad gave a cringeworthy defense for why Tinder charges its older users more moneyUber has delivered 30 million rides in New York City since launching four years agoInspired by the 2011 Occupy Wall Street […]
