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The S&P 500 has been all over the chart in recent weeks, teetering on the edge of bear market territory before roaring back with one of the best single days in history. Several market experts weighed in on the health of the market and strength of the U.S. economy during Thursday’s...

The central banks of global commodity exporters are caught between a rock and a hard place. Canada is one of the world's foremost producers of oil and natural gas, and South Africa ships precious metals, diamonds and ore to markets across the map. Both have been hit by a downswing in commodity...

The Chinese Communist Party has taken aggressive measures to combat its decline in the nation's stock market, which had shed about a third of its value in less than a month. First, the country's government attempted to stem capital flight by freezing the holdings of any shareholder with over a 5...

Fari Hamzei says that shares of Alibaba Holding Group Ltd (NYSE: BABA) are consolidating at the current level. He’s the founder of Hamzei Analytics, and he recently joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to explain why he’s anticipating a move in Alibaba’s stock in the near...

Some investors do not put much faith in technical analysis. However, there are enough investors that do follow it, that sometimes these analytical predictions create self-fulfilling prophecies. For those who do not follow technical analysis, there are certain moves, shifts or patterns in the...

Hamzei Analytics HFT Forex strategist Ashraf Laidi said something unusual happened when U.S. equities markets closed down on Monday. "We saw the U.S. dollar falling alongside the stock market," he said. "Why was that?" Laidi joined Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep this...

Hamzei Analytics Founder Fari Hamzei accurately predicted an upturn in the market Wednesday when he was a guest on Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep before the open the market open. The call was following his three-day rule, which correctly identified a decline for three days in a row and then a...

Citing U.S. intelligence officials, Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Islamic State ISIL could be raising more than $2 million a day –- much of it from oil sales. The oil comes from seven oil fields and two refineries in northern Iraq, which ISIS controls, along with six out of 10 oil...

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...