Ebola

It all started with a conversation between Motif Investing CEO Hardeep Walia and Motif Senior Researcher Peter Andes, CFA. “Peter showed me a story on Doctors Without Borders," Walia said. "Twenty-one doctors infected (treating Ebola patients). Twelve have died.”...

This was a recent headline from earlier this week: "Hemispherx Announces Strategic Relationship with Squire Patton Boggs, Washington, DC as Governmental Counsel in Fight Against Ebola" While a lot of attention has been paid to names such as Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, most are not...

The bulls (or perhaps more accurately, the bull algos) put on quite a show again on Tuesday. For the fourth day in a row, stocks rocketed higher and the S&P 500 finished with the best one-day gain in more than a year. Not bad for a market that had been left for dead four days ago, right?...

Neil Dutta is the head of U.S. economics for Renaissance Macro Research, and he said that even though the risk of an outbreak in the United States is low, there will still be a lot of headlines about it in the near future. He recently joining Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to share thoughts...

As of Tuesday afternoon, the stock market was struggling with "The Five 'E's."  Traders were fretting about the potential impact of Ebola, Europe's sinking economy, the big dive in energy, the status of various monetary easing efforts by central bankers around the...

U.S. stocks tumbled further on Wednesday and recovered significantly from intraday lows in a day of heavily volatility. The Dow traded lower by more than 450 points, dipping below 16,000 levels the index hasn't seen since February. The index recovered most of the losses but still closed the...

Identifying the drivers of stock market action can be helpful in determining when a move is overdone and due to reverse. For example, the various wannabe crises that have cropped up over the past two years have all fizzled out in short order as investors realized there was nothing major to...

U.S. markets ended the day mostly flat after giving up earlier gains. The Dow traded higher by 142 points before ending the day in negative territory. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices closed the day almost unchanged. The CBOE Volatility Index fell 7.5 percent to 23.79. Airline stocks traded...

Jim Cramer pre-records his "Mad Money" broadcast and can't control news events that take place after his show airs on CNBC. However, the after-hour traders that react to his comments may want to be careful after his recent musings on the cruise line sector. On the September 30...