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How To Play Defensive Issues On Big Down Openings
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 3:29pm | 834Read More...It's not very often that the market has huge down openings. In fact, it has been months since we had an open similar to the one on Thursday. Unless you are a brave contrarian, it can be very difficult to step in front of a moving train off the open. However, if you employ a sound strategy...
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Goldman 'Still Stuck' Waiting On A Expansion, In Latest GLI Note
Tuesday, July 1, 2014 - 3:22pm | 340Read More...After a first quarter view-reversal by Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) analyst George Cole, the global investment bank seems to still be waiting for the turnaround and expansion they have discussed for over the past two months. Goldman has been struggling to see the underlying economy follow through...
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The Futility Of Attempting to Predict The Markets
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 3:45pm | 749Read More...We live in a world full of predictions. People are always predicting things like the weather, the outcome of hurricane season, sporting events and, of course, the stock market. The scary part about all these predictions is how often they are wrong -- and how often individuals rely on them. If...
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6 Ways To Tell If The Market Is About To Crash
Friday, November 15, 2013 - 4:28pm | 1451Read More...Let's assume you think the stock market is about to stumble, and stumble badly. How can you see the top coming? Some argue the top is already staring everyone in the face. The Dow Jones industrials were up 21.15 percent for the year as of Thursday's close, with the Standard & Poor's 500...
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Market Wrap For November 12: Investors Continue to Speculate on the Fed's Tapering Measures
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 7:09pm | 1803Read More...U.S. stocks traded lower throughout the large majority of Tuesday's trading session, as investors continue to speculate on the timeline for the Fed's tapering measures. With the earnings season beginning to wind down and data on the economic front relatively sparse so far this week, traders'...
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Market Wrap For November 11: Relative Quiet as Traders and Investors Observe Holiday
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 6:44pm | 2164Read More...The Dow hit a record close in an otherwise quiet Veterans Day on Monday. There were no economic data releases by the government and few companies reporting earnings. The markets were anticipating a pick-up in Monday's rather slow activity with the lead-up to Janet Yellen's confirmation hearing on...
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Market Wrap: New Highs for Airlines, Boeing Boost Stocks
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 6:16pm | 877Read More...Stocks moved modestly higher on Monday for a second day in a row. The gains came despite a steep losses suffered by shares of mobile phone maker BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and Kellogg (NYSE: K [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) announcement it will cut seven percent of its workforce over the next...
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Market Wrap for October 29: Dow, S&P 500 Hit New Highs on Hopes Fed Won't Taper Bond-Buying
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 5:00pm | 1367Read More...Stocks pushed higher Tuesday in a rally that sent the Dow Jones industrials and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to new highs. The Nasdaq Composite Index finished at a 13-year high. The rally was built on expectations the Federal Reserve will leave its current bond-buying program in place...
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The Real Deal on Wall Street: Kind of Sad Investors Don't Know These Six Words
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 12:18pm | 669Read More...One integral piece to completing the analytical puzzle for me and selecting stocks for our Decoding Wall St. portfolio is the dissection of action words and jargon. For instance, if a CEO utters such nonsense as, "sales will be relatively strong," it could mean his or her company's sales - like...
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From Communism To Modern Day Capitalism: A History On Russian Economics
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:57am | 2592Read More...Official Name: Russian Federation. GDP and global rank (2010): US$ 2.37 trillion ranking as the 6th largest in the world. Per Capital GDP and rank (2010): US$10,816 ranking as 52nd largest in the world. Local Currency: Russian Ruble (RUB) How did Russia get to where it is today?...
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Are Treasuries Overpriced?
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 10:55am | 722Read More...All I read these days is how much Treasuries are overpriced. At the beginning of 2011, Bill Gross, the famous bond fund manager at Pimco, predicted serious losses for long-dated Treasury investors and he publicly announced that Pimco had sold its massive Treasury positions. In addition to...
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IPO's Risk or Reward?
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 5:39pm | 360Read More...“To the extent that the IPO price is a forecast of the secondary market price for the stock, these forecasts are not only biased downward (underpricing), but the range of the forecast (or pricing) errors is huge,” according to The Variability of IPO Initial Returns, Lowry, Officer, and Schwert....
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Don't be a Dead Duck on Black Friday!
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 10:53am | 245Read More...Trading any names in the retail sector on Black Friday is like cheating on a spouse, it just shouldn't be done. Unfortunately, there will always be that guy (or woman) that thinks he (or she) is too cool for school and won't get caught and that home gamer that sees some good traffic outside a...
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Fun Ways to Trade Black Friday
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 8:20am | 189Read More...Black Friday is locked and loaded. The typical day may end up following what goes down as Black Eye Wednesday if the Supercommittee turns super dud as it's shaping up to be right now. That is neither here nor there as far as this short missive goes. What we know on Black Friday is that stores are...
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"Greedy Bastards": A Review of Dylan Ratigan's views on the Financial Crisis
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 12:31am | 1039Read More...Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC's financial expert, has written a book about how markets have become perverse. It is an interesting example of how strange “competition” has become. One oddity presented itself on the cover of the package in which the book arrived. The cover proclaimed “Simon & Schuster...
