Despite the recent drop last week, the Stock Market is going to end the month of November with big gains. Major stock indexes are up more than 5 percent, the best monthly performance since July. Retailers are not doing so hot today though after the Thanksgiving weekend sales met expectations but failed to reassure investors who are ...…
Since 1929, December stock market trends show that the year’s closing month ranks second, behind only July, in terms of average price gain. Of course historical trends indicate offer no guarantee that December will be a positive month for the U.S. stock market. And the week that’s just begun could have significant ramifications for the stock ...…
Emerging markets ETF Trade. Overseas stocks rebounded while European equities fell as investors assessed a pledge by the United Arab Emirates to back Dubai banks and ease the region’s debt crisis – at least for now right? By way of ETF’s here is the EWT which is holding good trend line support and could see a modest ...…
Initial public offering (IPO), also referred to simply as a “public offering” or “flotation,” is when a company issues common stock or shares to the public for the first time. They are often issued by smaller, younger companies seeking capital to expand, but can also be done by large privately-owned companies looking to become publicly traded.…
The Efficient Frontier is part of the Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) that attempts to plots the optimal portfolios along the curve with the highest expected return possible for the given amount of risk. Mathematically the Efficient Frontier is the intersection of the Set of Portfolios with Minimum Variance (MVS) and the Set of Portfolios with ...…
Options on stock indexes and ETFs are traded fairly the same. The difference being that ETF’s values change throughout the day whereas the value on stock index options change at the end of each trading day to match the index they were based off of. Therefore, profit/loss on an index option is based on the market’s closing ...…
Short selling is the act of selling stock that you don’t own at a high price by borrowing it from a brokerage and then buying it back at a lower price in the future. The hope is that the stock price will drop in value and a profit can be made. This is an advanced technique ...…
The Oil – Energy Index is hitting major LONG-TERM resistance. Each and every time that it’s come across this trend-line has been a major turning point. Will this month be the last time we see these levels for a while? Judging by the 5 year chart below it’s quit possible.…
Gold prices are falling after hitting an all-time high earlier this week. Clearly from the chart they have been on a rocket ride since the breakout of the previous highs. Naturally Gold needs to take a break before heading higher.…
Dubai world debt rocked the world markets that were usually relatively quiet over a holiday. Not so today, as the rest of the world digested the stunning news from Dubai that the government’s flagship investment company was in financial trouble. World Market Updates FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closing down 170.68 points or ...…
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Considering the dollar has given some more gains back, the USO ETF review today shows us that it’s likely to bounce higher from support. Per the chart it’s breakout from this trading range in mid-October and now has successfully retraced the breakout. Look for a small bounce here energy traders.…
It’s back to normal I guess for the EUR/USD trading range. Noticeably the the dollar fell versus major rivals, allowing the euro to again fetch more than $1.50 as overall economic sentiment rebounded and the U.S. Federal Reserve showed no qualms about the U.S. unit’s decline.…
In today’s big bond report: the TLT ETF is our focus as treasury prices rallied higher today – further pressuring yields or interest rates lower. The main catalyst was from the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting showing that officials believe the recovery is going to expand at a slow rate while unemployment will continue to ...…
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