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How Last Week’s Stock Market Mini Rally Is Reshaping My Investment StrategyStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Apr 21, 2014 – 03:56 PM GMTBy: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The stock market staged a minor rally last week, but don’t get too excited yet; the buying support was largely triggered by a technically oversold market, rather than solid fundamentals or a […]
VOL. 129 | NO. 75 | Thursday, April 17, 2014
Guest Column
February Has Stock Market ‘Reboot’
REED WALTERS […]
Deutsche BankChart 1.Volatility has returned to the markets, and growth stocks in information technology and health care have led the way down.The chart above, from Deutsche Bank strategist Keith Parker, shows the extent to which fund positioning has helped fuel the recent decline in the stock market.”Performance over the last month across stocks and sectors has been driven by position […]
SummaryStocks endured another round of volatility this week, including a sharp sell-off on Thursday and Friday.
The latest pullback in stocks raises some natural questions.
Is this the beginning of a sustained correction, or is this just another pullback and a good buying opportunity?
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Benchmarks soared on Wednesday primarily boosted by the encouraging minutes from the central bank’s policy meeting. Fed officials are said to be in favor of hiking rates only when they are sure about the economic recovery. Alcoa’s positive quarterly numbers boosted its share price, somewhat driving the broader market as well.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, […]
Well, last we spoke, the market was searching hard for its next direction, and my oh my did it find it. Just for the sake of clarity, the direction found was down. While the major averages — the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI), S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX), Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) — only lost a few percentage points, the broad market of stocks has experienced a […]
Benchmarks ended in the red zone, dragged down by declines in momentum and bio-tech stocks. The day’s initial gains, largely a result of encouraging monthly jobs data, were eroded by the end of the trading session. The S&P 500 and Dow ended in the negative territory after reaching intraday all-time highs. Also, selling pressure in technology stocks dragged the Nasdaq […]
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,One has to wonder why we are dodging this truth about what we’ve become: a nation that turns a blind eye to skimmers, scammers and legal looting.As in the story of the Emperor’s new clothes, the onlooker who declares the obvious– in this case, that the stock market is rigged–shatters the consensus lie. In […]
