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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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LinkedIn is Takin' Care of Business
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 12:45pm | 1054Read More...by Peter Pham, Minyanville In the rock and roll world of social media, icons and legends come and go with screaming swarms of fans always on the lookout for the approaching limo of the next big thing. It wasn't so long ago that Friendster and MySpace were riding high and filling the proverbial...
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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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Think Like Groucho Marx, and Four Other Tips for Avoiding the Next Facebook
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 12:54pm | 1786Read More...By Michael Comeau, Minyanville Did you get burned by Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), thinking that getting a few shares of Wall Street's next sure thing would make you big bucks, as some TV prognosticators insisted? If the answer is yes, or if you'd like to avoid stepping in similar steaming messes of...
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SPYing on the Big Picture
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 2:51pm | 1663Read More...By: David Gillie, ETF Digest There are times when the best way to look at the market is from a distance. Monthly charts filter out the noise and the day to day media hype. Be forewarned - it's not a pretty picture. (click to expand image) First off, let me make note that the...
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How To Get a Piece of Facebook
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 12:36pm | 1215Read More...By Carol Kopp, Minyanville In a very modern version of ancient Rome's bread-and-circuses formula, Facebook is staging its roadshow for major institutional investors this week, while tossing some bits to the masses—or, at least, to the individual investors among the masses who want to get in on...
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"Distance Traveled" Ratio and US Equity Weirdness
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 12:11pm | 602Read More...By Peter Tchir, Minyanville I have to say, Monday seemed like a strange day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- oh, sorry I meant Nasdaq (^IXIC) -- was down over 0.5%, the S&P (^GSPC) was unchanged, and the Dow (^DJI) was up over 0.5%. It all makes sense when you look at the shares, but it gives me a...
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Is It Safe to Start Buying Gold Stocks Yet?
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 1:57pm | 583Read More...By David Banister One of the most common questions I field is: Can we buy gold stocks yet? We have seen gold consolidating and correcting following a 34-month Fibonacci rally which I said last fall was going to top out around $1,900 per ounce. This type of rally went from October of 2008 to August...
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More Sideways Consolidation - Market Turning Points
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 3:47pm | 2139Read More...Editor's Note: This report originally appeared on MarketTurningPoints.com Current position of the market SPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are down and, if they make their lows when expected (after this bull market is over) there will be another steep and prolonged decline...
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Stress Test Boosts Stocks; Apple Seizes New High
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:07am | 133Read More...Stocks opened higher in heavy trade Wednesday, buoyed by the Federal Reserve's bank stress-test report late Tuesday and a powerful move by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). The Nasdaq led with a 0.3% gain. The Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 rose 0.2% each. Trade surged 25% on the Nasdaq and...
