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Market Bounces Despite Increasing Risks Despite the grim news this week, from the near-Lehman level crisis in Britain, to the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic, Tucker Carlson's Monologue On The Foreign Policy Consequences Of The Breaching Of The Nordstream Pipelines, The...

Trading is simple, but it’s not easy, and requires a lot of work. Preparation for tomorrow’s trading session begins at today’s close. The more work you put in after the close, the less thinking you will have to do after the open, Leif Soreide, Momentum/Breakout Stock Trader...

Tropical Storm Ida damaged Acreage Holdings Inc. (OTC: ACRGF) cannabis cultivation site in Sewell, South Jersey, delaying the company's cultivation plans. Acreage had planned to start producing marijuana at the site in early 2022. Now, that is “unlikely,” said Steve...

Medical marijuana has been legalized in Mexico since June 2017 and, in 2018, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice ruled that banning the plant was unconstitutional. On April 30, 2021, Mexico's Congress failed to pass adult-use legalization orders that were handed down by five Supreme...

Stocks are extending their gains this morning after China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that the leaders of the U.S. and Chinese trade talks held a phone call in the morning and agreed to meet in early October for another round of negotiations. Bonds are falling with the inverse rates...

The historical movements in markets have contained the phrase “risk-on” as investors are moving assets into equities and out of treasuries. The line has been blurred over the last 10 years as bonds have risen right along the Bull run we have seen in stocks. The appetite for the relative...

Risk literally is exposure to the chance of injury or loss. The term risk and markets are interwoven, given the inseparability of both. The markets play on the risk sentiment of traders, given their vulnerability to greed and fear — the two most common emotions that drive traders in their...

Equity research analysts at Credit Suisse stated that so many of their clients "do not know what is happening" in the global economy. The report added that U.S. investors were "clearly cautious," while European and Asian investors were "more constructive." The analysts concluded that their clients...

With the S&P 500 making new all-time highs on a weekly basis, many investors are starting to get nervous about stock prices. While no portfolio is entirely risk-free, there are several ways that every investor can keep risk in check. Here are four common ways to manage the risk in your...

Beta is one of the most commonly-used measures of a stock’s volatility. It will often be calculated and considered as a way to determine the “safety” of an investment or a portfolio. The idea is that risk exposure can be reduced during a market downturn by investing in low-beta...

Randy Frederick says that people probably use to think that options traders were always speculating, taking a lot of big risks and putting a lot of money down waiting for big gambles to pay off. Frederick is the managing director for trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab. He recently joined...

On the way to completing his new book, The Map and the Territory, Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan had an epiphany. The epiphany, which Greenspan told The Wall Street Journal, “Upended my view of how the world works,” mostly...