To say the least it has not been a rewarding start for investors in the equity markets so far in 2016. After the volatile downside move in equities on Friday, the S&P 500 Index closed at 1,880, down 8% year
January 16, 2016
Bear markets happen. It’s a fact of investing in the stock market. Yet, when share prices are going up we all tend to forget that the next bear market is out there somewhere in the future. Well, the future has
Did you know that 15 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out since last June? The worldwide financial crisis that began in the middle of last year is starting to spin wildly out of control. On Friday, the
On Friday Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) tanked 50% after the FDA published a very negative clinical review of the drug, Eteplirsen. This is in advance of the FDA advisory panel, which is expected to convene on Jan 22, 2016.
This year has gotten off to an onerous beginning with the US market being dragged down almost 6 percent to begin 2016. It brings me back to some misspent days of my youth at the racetrack. We had the opportunity to
Soon after the presidency of Barack Obama began—on April 8, 2009—the McClatchy-Tribune News Service published an article of mine entitled, “Euphoria or the Obama Depression?”[3] In it, I wrote: Barack Obama is euphorically optimistic, but neither he nor the leaders
Ecolab (ECL) is one of the most reliable businesses that money can buy. Although its dividend yield is low (1.4%), the company’s long-term growth outlook is outstanding and supported by ECL’s moat (90% recurring revenue in the form of essential
We’ve always known it’s important to allocate assets among stocks, bonds, etc. in a reasonable manner. But when it comes to implementation, the more we think we understand, the more we realize we don’t understand. So more often than anyone
Large long positions in Amazon.com (AMZN) and Alphabet Inc. (GOOG), alongside a well-timed short on the Energy sector, were just three trades that helped Andreas Halvorsen’s long/short fund, Viking Global Equities rack up a gain of 4% for the fourth quarter
Video length: 00:23:37 See how retail traders are positioning in the majors in your charts using the FXCM SSI snapshot. Rather than slip peacefully into the liquidity drain of the weekend, fear exploded through the closing hours. This puts us in
