S&P 500 Q4 Cash Balance Remains Near 10-Year High by Andrew Birstingl, FactSet Seven out of Nine Sectors Reduce Cash Balances in Q4 The S&P 500 (ex-Financials) (SPX) (SPY) cash and short-term investments balance (“cash”) amounted to $1.44 trillion in the fourth quarter, which marked a 0.5% decline from the year-ago quarter and was essentially flat with the third quarter. The...
5 things March Madness can teach you about your trading by Adam D. Koos With March Madness upon us, we're provided with an opportune time to reflect on our trading strategy. In fact, one can learn a few money-management lessons when taking a peek at the history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Lesson 1 The odds of filling out...
The Dow is doing something it hasn't done since 1933 by Amanda Diaz Stocks are catching spring fever The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) DIA) and S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) officially wiped out their year-to-date losses this week, as the weight of the Fed was lifted from investors' shoulders. If the DJIA can hold its gains through the end of the month, it would mark the biggest...
Share Repurchases Grew 5.2% Year-Over-Year in Q4 by Andrew Birstingl Information Technology Leads Buyback Spending Companies in the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) spent $136.6 billion on share buybacks during the fourth quarter. This represented a 5.2% increase in spending from the year ago quarter and a 13.5% decline from Q3. Historically, a sequential decline from Q3 to Q4 has not been uncommon...
Largest Drop in S&P 500 EPS Estimate Over First Two Months of a Quarter since Q1 2009 by John Butters, Senior Earnings Analyst During the first two months of Q1 2016, analysts lowered earnings estimates for companies in the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) for the quarter. The Q1 bottom-up EPS estimate (which is an aggregation of the estimates for all the...
These stocks are quietly hitting a record high by Stephanie Yang Amid the global market turmoil this year, at least one group of stocks has become a big benefactor — consumer staples. The traditionally defensive sector hit an all-time high on Wednesday and has been one of the year's best performing sectors in the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY). Investors tend...
Bond Traders Clear a Path for Fed to Lift Interest Rates in June by Alexandra Scaggs Anooja Debnath Futures market lifts odds of an increase by mid-year above 50% Benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbs to six-week high The bond market is boosting its bets on a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase in June as stocks and oil rally. As Treasuries head...
Mystery 'Dude' Rattles Turkish Stock Traders With Massive Bets by Constantine Courcoulas Tugce Ozsoy Benjamin Harvey Traders suspect secretive algorithmic trader making the market `He's got deeper pockets than anyone else in the game': trader There’s a specter haunting stock traders in Istanbul that some are calling “the dude.” A mystery investor who first appeared a year and a half...
by Rick Wright Hello traders! As most of you know, New Year’s resolutions seem to have a habit of being “adjusted” or even thrown out the window completely by the second week of January; even more of them don’t make it to the first of February. This article will suggest a few trading resolutions to help with your trading in 2016....
by Chris Kimble, Kimble Charting Solutions Commodities could bounce huge off the neckline, says Joe Friday! The Thompson Reuters Commodity Index created a multi-year head & shoulders topping pattern with the right shoulder being completed in the summer of 2014. Since the right shoulder took place, commodities have tanked in the past 18-months. The large decline now has commodities testing...
