Cheap Oil: Too Much Of A Good Thing? The 40% drop in oil prices over the past 6 months has garnered a lot of attention recently, most of it focused on the economic stimulus lower oil prices should provide the global economy, the impact on currency and fixed-income markets and the increase in economic pain suffered by exporters such as Iran and Russia. In this article, I draw on historical data to assess the potential increase in geopolitical ...
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The Week Ahead: Why Following the Crowd Can Be a Bad Idea The stock market punished more of the stock market bears last week as the Dow Industrials, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100 reached levels that should have hit any conceivable stop loss orders of those who were short. However, many of the longer-term bears do not use a stop, which in my opinion is the fastest way to wipe out an account. Risk on either the long or short side needs to be managed at all times. This has ...
Can Apple continue to dazzle consumers with new services and products? Has the U.S. economy continued to create new jobs at a rate of more than 200,000 a month? Will decisions on interest rates by the European and British central banks cause action in securities markets? These are just three of the big questions investors will get answers to this coming week, which also brings other economic news and indicators including updates ...
It was a wide-ranging week for the stock market, while bond prices kept rising as yields hit new six-month lows. Though volume for the week was low, the daily volume was a bit higher on the down days. So Is Now the Time to Change Your Strategy? The sharp selloff was blamed in part on the comments by a well-known hedge fund manager while others guessed that the ?sell in May crowd? decided to pick the middle of the month to dump their stocks. So is now Is Now the Time to Change Your Strategy? ...