AP Photo/Seth WenigCopyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The stock market may consolidate its gain this week, but the overall trend remains up. The following week is options expiration week, which has a bullish bias. Here is the performance of the US markets since the October low. Note that the equally-weighted and the More
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images Key Takeaways It’s been a mixed bag for Wall Street this earning season, with some banks beating estimates and some notching major misses Some themes across the board include a massive slowdown in investment banking revenues, as M&A and IPO activity plunged during a volatile year The net interest More
Stock trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). (Photo by … [+] Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images The equity markets had a horrible 2022 with the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq down 8.8%, 19.4% and 33.1%, respectively. This isn’t surprising as investors faced increased interest rates, a potential recession More
Bitcoin and select altcoins are showing signs of a possible recovery in the near term but higher levels may continue to attract sellers. As the year comes to an end, investors will be keenly watching for a Santa Claus rally on Wall Street as many believe that if the rally does not happen, the next More
Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesGetty Images Rising rents mean a greater share of private investors are buying residential property, according to a leading estate agent. A hefty 12.2% of all homes have been bought by an investor in the year to date, research from Hamptons International showed. This is up from 11.7% in 2021, it More
Nov. 17. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Takeaways Mortgage refinance applications are down 88% since this time last year, with new mortgage applications also down 46% over the same period. It comes off the back of rapidly rising rates, which have made mortgages hundreds of dollars more expensive… More
Empty fuel warning light in car dashboard. Fuel pump icon. gasoline gauge dash board in car with … [+] digital warning sign of run out of fuel turn on. Low level of fuel show on speedometer dashboardgetty 26 days. That’s how much diesel America has in its collective tank. Imagine that: a fuel that powers… More
Fed Chair Jerome Powell at news conference following FOMC meeting, Nov. 2. (AP Photo/Patrick … [+] Semansky)Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Fed Chair Powell confirmed the market’s expectations of a 4% Fed Funds rate with more to come. The news launched the usual negative media reports, and a short-lived stock market decline.… More
Topline Fed officials on Thursday reiterated calls for aggressive policy to combat stubbornly high inflation—fueling expectations for bigger rate hikes amid a stock-market selloff that’s seen major indexes hit new lows for the year—and some analysts project that the losses could only deepen. Morgan Stanley’s bear case scenario? Another 18% plunge.getty Key Facts Real interest… More
residential power distribution with safety equipment per local codegetty The Utilities Sector Select Sector SPDR Fund is having a tough September after the Fed began the interest rate hikes. The fund hit its high price of the year early in the month up there above 77 and has now descended to 68 in about 2… More
|Getty Images Key Takeaways Leaving cryptocurrency and the metaverse out of your portfolio entirely could mean missing out on two of the largest potential growth markets of a generation. A snapshot look at META, U, MSFT, RIOT, SQ, NVDA and Q.ai’s bitcoin breakout kit. Cryptocurrency and the metaverse are new and unproven markets, meaning riskier… More
MONTREAL, QC – JULY 05: A detailed view of the Honda logo on a jersey during the quarterfinals at … [+] the 2022 NHL Gaming World Championships at the Bell Centre on July 5, 2022 in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/NHLI via Getty Images) NHLI via Getty Images Honda Motor stock (NYSE: HMC) has… More
Pay less attention to stock prices and more to what your portfolio companies are earning. Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)Getty Images Is the bear market about to resume? Maybe. But even if it doesn’t, there will be a big correction at some point and then another and… More
Topline Shares of Hong Kong fintech firm AMTD Digital continued to plunge on Thursday, crashing for a second day in a row after rising more than 21,000% since its July IPO, with experts calling it a new meme stock and warning investors to stay away from the stock as its valuation looks like “an absolute… More
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Over the last 50 years, seasonality and relative strength have proven valuable in successful portfolio management. Seasonality is very effective with most stocks. For example, Archer Daniels Midland ADM has risen 80% of the time over the last 42 years from August through December. Holding the stock… More
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