Guest post courtesy of the Hennessee Group.
August 13, 2015 – New York, NY – Hennessee Group LLC announced today that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index lost -0.02% in July (+2.94% YTD), while the S&P 500 gained +1.97% (+2.18% YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose +0.40% (-0.75% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index jumped +2.84% (+8.28% YTD). Bonds were also […]
Biotech Stocks Could Not Hold the Fort -Global Concerns Mount
Pundits and IT Experts Say Cybersecurity Was Not Breached
We see today that even biotech stocks can sell-off on negative macro sentiment. All of the global news compounded by network issues with United Airlines and the NYSE rattled traders and created a bias toward profit taking. Some market experts say this was more […]
Enterprise Value is most often used by finance professionals to understand the value of a business as if it was being bought out immediately.It is the total amount of dollars that would be necessary to effectively buy the company (not including stock price premiums and transaction fees), calculated by taking the market capitalization of the company, subtracting out cash, and […]
Related Berger: Why I Bought Bank Of America Shares This WeekBig Jobs Report Not The Only Headliner—Watch Europe, ChinaBeyond The Biotech Space – Paycom Software Inc NYSE PAYC(Marketfy)A new report by BNP Paribas looks at the extraordinary recent gains in China’s A-share markets and presents the case that China is in the middle of a major equity bubble.BNP lays out […]
Biotech Stocks Sell-Off After Hitting New Highs Monday
NASDAQ at 4735 off 0.67%
Healthcare and life science stocks have been a safe haven from recent market headwinds but today risk is off across the board. Crude is down over 5% to $61 and this has raised concerns about global growth affecting other asset classes like financials and industrials.The Dow and S&P are […]
NASDAQ leads -up 0.6% to 4787
The October correction of ~7% was a “headfake” as macro events scared many investor away
Technology and Healthcare Stocks Lead The Way
The healthcare SPDR (XLV) is up 24.5% YTD and the technology SPDR (XLK) is up 18% YTD.
Biotech stocks are at new highs with all major ETFs rallying in November. Our top ETF pick FBT is […]
60 Stocks More Than Doubled in 2014 So FarPosted by Ivanhoff
on November 23rd, 2014
Share on StockTwitsUp to this point in 2014, there are 60 stocks that have more than doubled YTD. What did they have in common early in the year?59 out of 60 had a market cap of under 10 billion at the beginning of the year.53 out of […]
[BRIEFING.COM] The major averages posted modest Friday gains, but the advance was not strong enough to pull the key indices back into the green for the week. The S&P 500 added 0.3%, narrowing its weekly loss to 0.7%, while the Nasdaq (+0.3%) ended the week lower by 0.3%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq outperformed in the morning thanks to early strength among […]
Below is a look at the quarter-to-date and year-to-date stock market performance for 75 countries around the world. So far this quarter, the average change for the 75 countries shown has been +1.12%. For the year, the average country is up 4.76%. In 2013, the US found itself in the top half of the list in terms […]
[BRIEFING.COM] The stock market finished an upbeat week on a cautious note as the major averages settled near their flat lines. The S&P 500 (-0.1%) shed less than three points, while the Russell 2000 (+0.1%) outperformed slightly. Interestingly, the bulk of today’s trading activity took place before 11:00 ET, while the key indices spent the afternoon within a striking distance […]
