Here’s the 3-month chart of GLD. Quite a run-up there! (credit Fidelity.com) And here’s the 5-day chart of GLD, showing the action on US markets for both intraday and extended hour trading. (credit Fidelity.com) The sudden drop followed directly on the “announcement” of trade talks between the US and China. We use the term announcement loosely here,
Month: September 2019
(Photo by Mark Schiefelbein- Pool/Getty Images) Chinese corporations are all over Africa. In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. What are Chinese corporations doing in Africa? That’s a highly controversial issue. The reason Chinese corporations are in Africa is simple; to exploit the
Adobe Stock Has the “free lunch” of investing been over-sold to investors? YCharts.com The financial advice industry has been on a sugar-high…that has lasted decades. Since the 1980s, claims of “Nobel Prize-winning theories” and the virtues of “diversification – the free lunch of investing” have been force-fed to investors ad nauseum. I have heard it
An activist investor with a penchant for bold calls about companies losing value spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday about his latest position, which bets that household products company Church & Dwight will lose half its value. Spruce Point Capital founder Ben Axler published a report last week expressing “significant concerns” about Church &
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A man passes a Louis Vuitton store in Macau, China, on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Daniel J. Groshong | Bloomberg | Getty Images The impact on earnings from the slowdown in China and the ongoing trade war is not uniform. Halfway through the earnings season, company reports show the much-feared collapse in guidance for the
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: AT&T — AT&T rose 3.3% in midday trading after noted Wall Street activist Elliott Management disclosed a $3.2 billion stake in the company. Elliott – founded by Paul Singer – said in
Bloomberg /file 2012 Disney is among the stocks worth watching because of its ties to soccer’s World Cup. MADRID (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trading in Monday’s session are Medtronic Inc. and Covidien PLC , as well as Layne Christensen Co. Medtronic MDT, +0.90% announced a deal on
Technically, we have yet to reach a point where the markets have entered bearish territory. Despite the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding nearly 300 points to officially kick off September, the major indices are still up double digits. However, that might change soon, which is why you should consider contrarian investments like entertainment stocks to
If you were thinking about investing in it, IBM (NYSE:IBM) stock looks fairly cheap right now. Its dividend yield is now very high at 4.6%, assuming its $6.48 annual rate stays unchanged. And now that IBM’s $34 billion purchase of Red Hat has closed, the dividend is looking even more secure. Source: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.com
Stocks suffered a terrible August with the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq losing 1.7%, 1.8%, and 2.6%, respectively. If you didn’t take the time this past month to figure out which stocks to sell, you might want to do that before too long. September is historically the worst-performing month on the calendar. Over the past
U.S. stock futures are trading higher this morning in a continuation of last week’s breakout. Optimism surrounding recent strides in the U.S.-China trade war survived the weekend intact, and investors have returned to the business of buying. Source: Shutterstock Ahead of the bell, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are up 0.22% and S&P
Hurricane Dorian lit a fuse Seasonality takes over- No significant reaction to the latest inventory report Watch the critical level on the upside When a market has every reason to move lower, and it does not, it is often a sign that the path of least resistance of the price is higher. The price of
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Shutterstock These 14 funds are the cheapest to own for a brief stint. The usual reason for buying a dividend-rich fund is to get income for retirement. But exchange-traded funds can also be used for speculation. One way to bet on a downward blip in interest rates,
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin An RBS logo is pictured above a branch of a Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bank branch in central London on July 25, 2018. (Photo by DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images) Late last week, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reported results for the second quarter of the
Swing Trading Today | Gold & Silver Continuatin Sell Off? Well given our weekly technical analysis of the stock charts it appears as though we may break support. There appears to be manipulation on the Comex exchange of payper gold and silver pressing the spot price downward. In swing trading today we also do some
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown speaks before ringing the opening bell at Nasdaq MarketSite, May 2, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: D.A. Davidson initiating Beyond Meat as ‘underperform’ D.A. Davidson said its view does not reflect a negative view of
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, June 5, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Tuesday marks the halfway mark — more than half of the S&P 500 has reported second half earnings. The good news: 1) Second quarter earnings are providing few surprises — earnings are beating estimates by the usual
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