The news cycle has been quite complimentary towards the lack of stock market volatility recently. But that could be set to end as soon as this afternoon.
After the closing bell, second-quarter earnings season kicks off with the release of data from Alcoa, a top aluminum producer and traditionally the...
Most websites on investing and financial planning can’t wait to tell you about two things—the record highs of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or S&P 500, and the impressive levels of growth expected in our nation’s economy in the coming months.
So why did the United States’ GDP drop in...
Corporate America has been busy this week, and so followed the stock market. After starting the week off pretty tame, investors sprang into action yesterday and today after a bundle of reports came out that often have an influence on the market. Among the reports were some red flags...
Stocks remained relatively flat to start the trading week, following a day off from trading to honor President’s Day. The Dow Jones and the S&P 500 showed little change throughout the day, while the Nasdaq managed to post some mild gains.
The Dow Jones finished at 16,130.79 (-0.15%)
The S&P 500 finished...
If Wall Street still had the iconic scene of traders in a crowded room yelling “buy” and “sell”, then today that room would have been filled with an awkward silence as investors stood by cautiously not knowing what to do.
So far in 2014 the stock market has been on...
And so the story goes… The stock market thrived for five years and finished at record heights in 2013, just to begin a familiar trend back down immediately following its bull market peak. Or at least that is what is running through the minds of investors as we come...
But investors aren’t wiping the 2014 sweat from their foreheads just yet. December’s jobs data delivered an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate but was dwarfed by the even less expected weak number of jobs gained in December.
The Dow Jones finished at 16,483.26 (+0.67%)
The S&P 500 finished at 1,848.39 (0.52%)
The Nasdaq...
Unemployment fell to 6.7% from 7% today. Great news? Apparently not...
The new "unemployment rate" was coupled by a jobs report that fell very short of the economists expectations. The economy only added 74,000 jobs in December when economists were predicting 193,000.
So why the extreme contrast in data?
The unemployment rate...
Wall Street continued to stay true to the 2014 theme as stocks ended the first week of trading down and not nearly as bullish as 2013,
Again, it may be too quick to start speculating on the psyche of investors just yet, as it understood that trading volume is low...
As expected, trading is off to a boring start for the last week of trading in 2013. All three major indices showed little change on the Monday following Christmas, as many offices that move the markets are somewhat vacant due to staff taking off for the holidays. A lack...
