By Nick Cunningham, a Washington DC-based writer on energy and environmental issues. You can follow him on twitter at @nickcunningham1. Originally published at OilPriceOil markets face a lot of downside risk – high crude oil inventories in both the U.S. and Europe, resilient production from U.S. shale, increasing output from OPEC, a nuclear deal with Iran, the turmoil in Greece […]
“By declaring Greece in arrears, the IMF avoided using the term ‘default,’” says this morning’s New York Times.If you read yesterday’s 5 Minute Forecast, you already knew that’s what would happen. The Greek government missed a $1.7 billion payment to the International Monetary Fund. But don’t call it a default.The U.S. finance industry played this game a few years ago. […]
Meanwhile, elsewhere:
SHANGHAI — Share prices in China plunged on Friday in one of the sharpest sell-offs in years, accelerating a downturn this last week in what has been, for much of this year, the world’s best-performing stock market.
China’s two major market indexes fell in tandem. The Shanghai composite fell 7.4 percent on Friday. The Shenzhen composite fell even more, dropping […]
Stock Market Uptrend/downtrend Inflection PointStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 27, 2015 – 01:53 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroThe market started the week at SPX 2110. A gap up opening took the SPX to 2130 on Monday, the high for the week. Then the market pulled back every day, including Friday, to end the week at SPX 2102. For the week the SPX/DOW […]
Stock trading is a very interesting business. There are so many things that one has to know in order to successful in this trait. But once you do figure out the pros and cons of the industry you can make quite a bit of money out of it.There are certain things one has to know before jumping into the stock […]
Greece and Stock Market Divergences…….Transports Ugly….Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015Jun 25, 2015 – 11:32 AM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanThe market was gapping down just a drop heading in to the trading day. Nothing to get upset about but, then came the news many didn’t want to hear. Talks regarding Greece breaking down, which is not unexpected. The futures fell further still and […]
We just received one of the biggest stock market crash indicators we’ve seen since the 2008 financial crisis.A Bank of America Merrill Lynch note today shows the bank’s clients sold more than $4.1 billion in U.S. stocks last week. That’s the largest amount in any week since January 2008, according to analyst Jill Carey Hall.And as this chart shows, most […]
FacebookIn this June 11, 2014, photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. In a report released Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, the Pew Research Center found that most people who regularly use social media sites are actually less likely to share their opinions, even offline. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) […]
Kyle Anderson: Spending on cancer treatment has been skyrocketing globally. According to the IMS Institute of Health, spending on cancer topped $100 billion globally in 2014. That was a 10% increase from 2013.That’s why many biotech stocks tied to cancer treatments have seen triple-digit gains in the last two years.Have you ever wondered how billionaires continue to get RICHER, while the rest of […]
Stocks are finally breaking out!The Russell 2000 small-cap index? Check. Midcap stocks? Double check. Blistering biotechs? Triple check. In fact, The Biotech iShares continued to reach for new highs Monday after last week’s jolt.There are still some weak spots out there, like utilities. But if you’re taking the time to zero-in on the strongest stocks in the strongest sectors, you’re […]
