Discussions about investing are seldom complete without the mention of stock markets—the gains, risks, and opportunities. Sure, stocks and linked products like mutual funds are a part of many investor portfolios, but not all. Many investors are wary of the stock markets for a number of reasons and are thus looking at other investment options. There are a wide variety […]
Source: Amgen, Flickr.The biotech sector is something of a roulette wheel for investors. The chances of being right are typically against you, but if you can land a winner every now and then the rewards can multiply many times over your initial bet.A majority of the biotech sector is comprised of clinical-stage pipelines or developing product portfolios which are still […]
Stock Market Friday Payroll SurpriseStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Apr 04, 2015 – 03:09 AM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market opened the week at SPX 2061 after last week’s sharp decline from near record levels. After a rally to SPX 2089 on Monday the market nearly retested last week’s low at 2046, then bounced to end the holiday shortened week at 2067. For […]
Cramer questions the market’s intelligence
Mad Money host Jim Cramer shares his final thoughts of the day on the latest moves taking the tape, including Micron; Procter & Gamble; Kimberley-Clark and PVH.
Sometimes even Jim Cramer has to admit—the stock market is dumber than a bag of hammers.This is exactly what he was thinking on Wednesday night when Micron reported an upside […]
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Investors looking for early warnings signs of a shift in U.S. market sentiment would do well to watch tech and biotech stocks.That is because a selloff in those sectors is likely to signal that investors’ confidence in U.S. equities is deteriorating, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Hartnett“U.S. bear view requires [a] tech-wreck,” he writes […]
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Source: Celgene Corp.Biotech companies have been among the market’s best-performing stocks, and that means many of the industry’s top stocks have soared to lofty levels that might have kept investors on the sidelines. Since sliding markets are likely to take biotech stocks lower, investors could soon have their first chance in a long time to buy into some great companies […]
George Leong: The stock market continues to want to edge higher, but beware. I still sense there will be more downside moves that will provide a trading opportunity. At this juncture, I would be looking for sell-offs in the stock market and chaos.Just like what we saw in 2008 when the stock market and big banks crashed, when a stock market […]
The world’s most valuable company is now a member of the Dow Jones industrial average.
Apple Inc. was added to the Dow after the market closed Wednesday. The Dow will begin trading with Apple stock when the markets open Thursday.
Created in 1896, the Dow is an index that tracks 30 stocks. It is meant to reflect the U.S. economy and markets.
The […]
Just as the BIS has grown concerned at “the markets’ buoyancy hinges on central banks’ every word and deed.,” the following two charts show, perhaps more worryingly and more clearly that any others just how bipolar (and short-fuse schizophrenic) the world’s equity markets have become…Sentiment has been totally crazy.. swinging from utterly dysphoric to complacently euphoric and back to ‘brink […]
