Tax scare on Yahoo’s Alibaba stake spin-off seen premature by BusinessInsider.com : Wednesday 05:30:11 CTCategories: markets, streamBy Supantha Mukherjee and Abhirup Roy(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc’s planned spin-off of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is likely to proceed on a tax-free basis, analysts said, as Yahoo shares regained most of their losses after concerns of a possible change in […]
By Justin Fox, Bloomberg ViewEvery once in a while a business journalist notices how well Danaher Corp. has performed during the past few decades, and feels compelled to remark upon it. Well, now I’ve noticed, and I guess the most appropriate remark is, “wow.” Or maybe “jeepers.”Tektronix dealDanaher paid nearly $3 billion for Washington-County based Tektronix in 2007. The deal’s […]
The stock market is rigged.When I started making that claim years ago — and provided solid evidence — people scoffed. Some called it a conspiracy theory, tinfoil hats and that sort of stuff. Most people just ignored me.But that’s not happening anymore. The dirty secret is out.With stock prices rushing far ahead of economic reality over the last six or […]
Are you – and your portfolio – prepared for a perfect market storm? Because there is a risk that a tempest may be on its way, one for which we’re woefully unprepared.The latest piece of evidence arrived Friday, when the Labor Department announced that in spite of the deep chill that gripped a large part of the country during February, […]
The last time we looked at the most important tower in the world, about 4 months ago, it looked as follows:The tower in question is the primary microwave relay into the ill-named “New York” Stock Exchange which actually is located just off MacArthur Boulevard and Route 17 in Mahwah, New Jersey, and in our opinion is the “most important tower” […]
Another holiday, another opportunity to get settlement day wrong. Plus some ancient history in which Washington’s Birthday is transformed into Presidents’ Day.Emanuel Leutze’s famed 1851rendition of Washington crossing the Delaware. (Via Wikipedia)WASHINGTON, February 11, 2015 – Some might wonder why we publish Wall Street’s holiday trading/settlement schedules in our CDN business and financial columns. The reason is simple. Inexperienced traders […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)Gone are the days of excessive leverage and the dominance of Wall Street. Gone are the days when the stock market –and U.S. economy — had to be led by banks.”The U.S. economy is transitioning from a financial services economy into something much more real,” said Meredith Whitney, the former star Wall Street analyst who now helps run […]
Consulting was the top-performing sector of all marijuana penny stocks in 2014, followed by biotech and infused-product companies, according to Viridian Capital & Research. “There’s a demand now for experts to lead the entrepreneur through the application process, and that demand will continue as these entrepreneurs who are licensed will also need to be taught how to sustain a marijuana […]
Miami, FL — (ReleaseWire) — 01/14/2015 — Investing in marijuana stocks as been referred to in the past as the “green rush”, especially after Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational cannabis. Businesses with no experience in the cannabis circuit were trying to move in to make some green of their own. Savvy penny stock investors soon […]
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Robert Litan
Dow Jones Industrial Average over 2014.
The Wall Street Journal
With the stock market’s unexpected boom toward the end of 2014, what better way to ring in the new year than to reexamine that age-old question: What drives stock returns? Is it earnings’ growth fundamentals or short-term momentum swings in investor behavior?
The answer matters because most forecasters expect the economy to […]
