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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 ...
The week ahead brings important updates on US second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP), a number of reads on the housing market, and earnings from retailers and advertising giant WPP . But the launch of the new Madden NFL 15 video game from Electronic Arts could grab more headlines than most. Electronic Arts’ share price has jumped in recent days, perhaps on the back of positive publicity for the new game, so Tuesday’s ...
All eyes are on the Fed. When will it begin to raise interest rates? Some say next summer. Others think sooner, in the first quarter of next year. A few Fed governors insist that will be too late, that the Fed needs to act before year-end. Analysts hoped some hints could be gleaned by reading between the lines of Fed Chair Yellen’s speech in Jackson Hole on Friday morning, or perhaps from nuances in her tone of voice. That is how much investors, who despised the Fed ...
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