Retail inflows to U.S. high-yield funds totaled $672 million during the week ended Aug. 27, roughly on par with the $680 million inflow recorded two weeks ago, and falling well under the $2.2 billion of inflows last week. This week’s inflow helps to offset the $12.6 billion of outflows for the four weeks ended Aug. 6. In the latest reading, just 4% of the inflow was tied to the ETF segment, or $26 million, according to Lipper. The trailing-four-week average improves to a negative $873 ...
Here is a collection of the past week’s news, blog posts, and articles that are related to the post-2009 economic bubbles that I am warning about: U.S. & Global Stock Market Bubble News David Tice: Stocks Will Fall 30%-60%Albert Edwards: The Stock Bubble Is Making A Hissing Sound Are Stocks Heading For A Crash This Fall?Broken Links: Fed Policy and the Growing Gap Between Wall Street and Main Street ...
Another day of solid buying and the sharp increase in housing starts gave the homebuilding stocks a boost, which helped the overall market. The A/D lines for the NYSE Composite, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and the Dow Jones Industrials have now broken their downtrends. Maybe the Wall Street pros realized that too many of them were bearish or cautious on the stock market and started buying. The A/D line on the Nasdaq 100 has confirmed the new price highs as the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ) ...
The Sultanate of Oman’s oil and gas industry is undergoing a much needed revival. During the late 1990s, exploration and production (E&P) activity saw the country produce 950,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) on average. However, by 2007 production fell to an all time low of 714,000 boepd prodding Omani policymakers towards placing greater emphasis on fresh technological and capital investment to boost production. Since Oman’s proven reserves, thought to be in the region ...
On Monday, August 25, 2014 the S&P 500 Index crossed 2,000 points for the first time ever more than 16 years after it hit 1,000. Take a look at the ten largest components then and now. #1 Then General Electric (GE) Market Value Then: $240.1 Billion % Index Then: 3.2% 2014 Rank: 8 #2 Then Coca-Cola (KO) Market Value Then: $164.9 Billion % Index Then: 2.2% 2014 Rank: 19 ...