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Is the Super Bowl a leading indicator for stock market performance? Yes, says one firm as it drew upon a historical trend to predict the year’s likely market trajectory. What Happened: Super Bowl LVIII,  the championship game of the National Football League, is scheduled to be held on Sunday...

It’s been a turbulent first half of 2018 for investors, with the return of stock market volatility and a stream of impactful geopolitical headlines. Now that the second half of the year has begun, here’s a look at which investing ideas have been working so far this year. U.S....

One of the most difficult things for a long-term investor to do is ignore the day-to-day or week-to-week noise in the market and focus on maximizing long-term gains. In reality, young Americans investing for retirement shouldn’t even care what a stock will do in a year’s time and should...

Quarterly earnings season is certainly an important time of year for all investors, but earnings reports are a lot more impactful for certain stocks than others. For example, AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) investors know they likely aren’t in for a big post-earnings move. In the past six quarters,...

J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE: JCP) shares are poised to finish the week down more than 10 percent after the company announced it will be taking a series of drastic measures to help protect the struggling companies bottom line. The New York Post reported that JCPenney has slashed payroll, frozen...

After a strong bullish run off of February lows, the S&P 500 finished off last week with its first three consecutive down days in over a month. According to Bespoke, the pullback could be a response to the market recently hitting its most overbought level since 2013. “Today’s...

The first couple of months of 2016 have passed, and Bespoke decided to share an interesting snapshot of how several asset classes have performed so far. To measure this, the firm used key U.S.-traded ETFs, and evaluated their February, year-to-date and year-over-year returns. The table below...

The National Association of Home Builders on Tuesday published its latest sentiment report -- designed as a barometer for the single-family housing market. Even though results were weaker than expected, the Bespoke Team assured "the residential housing market in the US has been a bright spot...

The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Investor Sentiment Survey measures the sentiment of individual investors on the stock market. The results of the latest survey recently came out and showed that bullish sentiment was back below 40 percent, while bearish sentiment...

Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) were down roughly 2 percent on Wednesday, following its much-awaited event. How will the stock perform in the weeks and months to come? A look at the historical price movements might shed some light on the issue. Usually, Apple’s stock tends to...

There has been debate this year, as always, about whether a ‘Santa Claus rally’ would happen.  In fact, the seasonal anomaly in which abnormally positive returns take place in the market during the month of December has happened 80 percent of the time over the past 20 years. This year, some...