Top Forecaster Says Dollar Again Heading Higher Vs Euro Dollar Drop Signals World's Best Forecaster to Start Buying by Andrea Wong & Lucy Meakin It's time for investors who bailed on the dollar in the past few weeks to get back in, says the most-accurate currencies forecaster. The greenback has tumbled 4.3 percent versus the euro (FXE) since touching a 12-year...
Transport Stocks Underperforming – A Warning Sign For Broad Market Or Insignificant? Transportation stocks may signal a problem with the market by Alex Rosenberg It’s one of the oldest theories in the book: the Dow Confirmation Theory. Based on tenets promulgated more than 100 years ago by Wall Street Journal founder Charles Dow, the idea is that a rally...
Global Stock Markets. Examined By Market Cap Which Countries Control the Global Stock Market? by Bespoke Invest Below is an updated look at the current makeup of the global stock market by country. Using Bloomberg data, we’ve constructed a table showing the percentage of global market cap that each country (the largest 25) currently makes up. We also show where...
Where We Stand Now – Weekly Market Outlook Even with Friday’s bounce, the bulls couldn’t do anywhere near enough to undo Wednesday’s damage. All told, the S&P 500 (SPX) (SPY) lost 2.2% last week. The results look grim, and several of our key technical indicators are at or near bearish conditions. The breakdown hasn’t truly taken hold yet though, and...
Biotech’s 5 Year Run On Top – Is It A Bubble? Credit Suisse: Surging Biotech Stocks Have Done Something That no Other Sector Has Done Before – Biotech is in a league of its own by Julie Verhage With the Biotech sector (IBB) (XBT) (FBI) (XLV) significantly outperforming other areas of the market, people are continuing to ask if the sector is...
20 Hottest Dividend Stocks Of 2015 Thus Far The hottest dividend stocks of 2015 by Dominic Chu Investors often bail out of dividend stocks when interest rates rise, so it's worth noting that a number of dividend-paying stocks have weathered a sell off that hit some of the most popular plays. The stock market has given investors a bit of a roller...
Many Big Hedge Funds Still Betting On The Dollar How the smart money is set up for a rate hike by Lawrence Delevingne With the financial community abuzz over a looming interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, the smart money is betting big on the U.S. Dollar instead of Treasurys. Instead of betting on the price of, say, 10-year...
The Winners & Losers In Global Financial Markets In 1 Large Table One Huge Table That Shows the Winners and Losers of Global Financial Markets How everything is really doing. by Julie Verhage Despite some rockiness recently, US stocks have gone on a nice run over the last year, as seen in this S&P 500 chart. SPX Daily Chart ...
Nice Primer On OHLC Bar Charts Bar Charts (OHLC) by IncredibleCharts Each bar on a bar chart represents price performance for a specific period. These periods could be as long as a month or as short as one minute, depending on the purpose for which the chart is to be used. Daily bar charts are the most popular/commonly seen. OHLC...
March Asset Class Performance & February’s Leaders Are Lagging Key Asset Class Performance So Far This March by BespokeInvest Below is a matrix highlighting the recent performance of various asset classes using ETFs traded on US exchanges. While stocks are up over the last week, they’re mostly down on the month here in the US. The S&P 500...
