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The Dow Jones Industrial Average just gave a classic bullish signal — but traders might want to hold the champagne. On July 16, the Dow's 50-day moving average crossed above its 200-day moving average, forming a golden cross — a pattern widely seen by technical analysts as a sign of bullish...

Chinese retail sales grew by 4.8% year-on-year in October picking up from September’s 3.2% growth, as per the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. That annual retail sales forecast exceeded the 3.8% growth precited by a Reuters poll. What Happened: The robust growth in Chinese retail...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finds itself ensnared below a critical threshold and wrestling to regain its footing Monday. Having breached the support of its 50-day moving average during Thursday’s session, the blue-chip index, as closely tracked by the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average...

This weekend's Barron's cover story explores how investors can benefit from the shift to green energy. Other featured articles discuss value stocks to ride the economic recovery, what the spike in bond yields means for stocks, and tech stocks resisting the sector downturn. Also, the...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included pharmaceutical and semiconductor leaders. And bearish calls included a fresh IPO and a struggling retailer. The first week of the second quarter was a relatively quiet one for the big three...

Generally speaking, the bigger the size of the company, the more difficult it is to grow. This concept was front-and-center after two major Dow components signaled to investors growing their business isn't an easy task. Procter & Gamble Shares of Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE: PG) were trading...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average(INDEXDJX:.DJI) tracks the performance of 30 major U.S. companies, from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) to UnitedHealth Group Inc (NYSE: UNH) and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT). The index has lost more than 8.5 percent...

If one was out and about on Tuesday and unable to view the intraday action, the end result of the trading session may not have produced much of a reaction as the Dow fell 27 points, the S&P dropped 5, and the NASDAQ gave up just 3. However, anyone watching the day unfold knows that there...

Last time covered the "technical divergences" evident in the current market from a big-picture standpoint. The Dow, S&P, NASDAQ, Russell 2000 and S&P 400 Midcap were compared in order to see if the major indices were all singing the same song. Note that in a strong market,...

The Pentagon announced Friday that it had launched an airstrike against Islamic militants (originally operating as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but recently renamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in northern Iraq. This came just hours after President Barack Obama said the...

JC Parets is the founder and president of Eagle Bay Capital and holds the Chartered Market Technician designation (CMT) and is the New York City Chapter Chair of the Market Technicians Association. Parets is a regular guest on many news outlets and dropped by for a chat on Benzinga's #...

April turned out to be a pretty good month for stocks. Surprisingly good. The Dow Jones Industrials, which had been down as much as 7.3 percent for the year on February 3, finished in the black for the year for the first time. That said, not all stocks had particularly good months. Biotechs...

The price of gold fell to the lowest level in months this morning before a sudden reversal higher as stocks began to move lower. The SPDR Gold ETF (NYSE: GLD) has fallen seven percent in the last six weeks and the gold mining stocks have suffered an even bigger loss. The question arising...

U.S. stock futures were pointing towards a modestly higher open as investors found enough optimism from Dow components Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson who both reported better than expected quarterly results. Investors were further spooked by reports of pro-Russian separatists taking...

The Nasdaq index traded above 4,000 for the first time since 2000. The other major indices were flat for the day as markets couldn't hold on to early gains that were boosted by an international accord with Iran. Economic news was rather light and there were no comments from a Fed chairperson that...