In case you haven’t heard, suburban malls are on the way out (sorry Paul Blart). Some have become abandoned wastelands popular for ruin porn. Others have been torn down and turned into industrial sites.According to Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and professor at Georgia Tech, there are about 1,200 enclosed malls in the United States, and about one-third of them are […]
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Plenty of people think of penny stock traders like the cowboys of the Wild West, as if we were all running around some kind of lawless financial environment – jumping in and out of volatile stocks at the slightest twitch of the market.But the thing is, trading like that – without any rules in place to protect your trades and […]
Ah the good old days. Stocks up $25, $50, $100 more in a single day. Day trading was all the rage. Anyone and everyone you talked to had a story about how they had made a ton of money on such and such a stock. In an hour. Stock trading millionaires were being minted by the week, if not sooner.You […]
Going into 2015 the economic outlook held by the U.S. investment establishment could not have been much more positive, and more unified. Pundits saw all the variables aligning to create the best of all investment worlds, a virtual “no-brainer” of optimism. Many believed that the 5.0% annualized growth in 3rd quarter would stay strong in the 4th Quarter and then […]
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” […]
Thinking about jumping into stock market trading, but aren’t sure where to start? Tired of the usual tap-to-jump game apps on your smartphone or tablet and want something a bit more challenging?Virtual stock market trading apps are getting popular, and they’re a good solution for both problems. If you’re into trading, you can hone your skills with real-world companies and […]
Akin Oyedele
Feb. 23, 2015, 2:14 PM
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Most of the world’s largest stock markets are dominated by a few industries.In contrast, the US has the most diverse range of industries that investors can pick from.According to Credit Suisse’s Global Investment Returns Yearbook for 2015, the three largest industries in 42 of the countries in the FTSE all world index make up at […]
Mike Bird
Feb. 23, 2015, 8:21 AM
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It’s something that sounds pretty odd to most people who follow financial and international news: Russia’s stock market is the best performing in the world so far this year.It’s up by 28%, dwarfing the European equities rally (the major French, Italian and German indices are all up by more than 10%), and eclipsing the S&P […]
Myles Udland
Feb. 17, 2015, 8:41 PM
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Flickr / Marcello Maria PeronginiGoldman Sachs’ Chris Mischaikow is out with a review of the last six months of big moves in equity, currency, and bond markets.And over the last six months, the biggest driver of moves in the stock market has been, well, nothing obvious.Mischaikow writes that between August and January, “Moves in equities often […]
Jeff Sprecher, chief executive of the US exchanges operator, acknowledged the fragmented, regulated world of equities trading was not “ever going to be wildly profitable”, but added the value of the NYSE lay in its listings franchise and data business.”I don’t know why we would get rid of that. I think our shareholders want to participate in the earnings growth […]
