Globe and MailUS HOT STOCKS: Lowe's, Cooper Industries, Facebook, ZyngaWall Street JournalUS stocks traded higher Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently added 82 points to 12452, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gained 12 …
Financial TimesAsia plummets on Europe fears and US dataFinancial TimesBy Song Jung-a in Seoul Asian shares dropped, with Japan's stock index falling to a four-month low, as investors dumped risky assets amid worries about Europe compounded by disa…
January 6, 2012
A Historical Cycle Bodes Ill for the Markets
By FLOYD NORRIS
AT the turn of the last century, it was widely accepted that American stocks were virtually certain to be good long-term investments. Now, far fewer people are confident of…
December 30, 2011
3 Experts Prognosticate on 2012
By JAMES B. STEWART
Predictions for the economy and markets for 2012 have been bleak, and 2011 was much worse than expected. There may not be much to celebrate this New Year’s Eve.
That ma…
September 24, 2011
If It Looks Like a Bear, and Moves Like a Bear …
By PAUL J. LIM
AFTER a week in which stocks sank more than 6 percent, the sell-off in equities that began five months ago is coming perilously close to bear market territory.
Whet…
August 11, 2011
As Dizzying Week Ends on Wall Street, Dangers Linger
By ERIC DASH and CHRISTINE HAUSER
One of the most tumultuous weeks on Wall Street ended on Friday with the markets not that far from where they started, but with worries about the Un…
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JULY 2, 2011.
Stock Picking Gets Trickier .
By BEN LEVISOHN
A year ago, stocks were moving in such unison that traditional fund managers couldn’t hope to beat the market. Now stocks are trading much more on their fundamentals—but m…
January 29, 2011
Stocks and Bonds, Parting Ways
By PAUL J. LIM
SINCE the financial crisis, bad news for the bond market has generally meant trouble for stocks.
That’s because equity investors have looked to corporate and foreign bonds to gauge the…
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index rose to 57.1 in December. This chart shows the ISM Non-Manufacturing index overlaid with the S&P 500. It shows that the…
The Aden Sisters reckon that the markets are okay short-term, BUT they see a hyperinflationary crash coming down the road…
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — An apocalyptic hard-money letter says party on — for now.
When I las…