Tag: trading

November 15, 2019

As the S&P 500 has broken out of its trading range into record highs, euphoria has been growing — fast. Technicians like Stephen Suttmeier at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have been positively giddy recently, noting a bullish rotation into […]

November 6, 2019

U.S. stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday and major indexes hovered around record highs as investors digested the latest batch of corporate earnings. Investors have been focusing on mostly solid corporate earnings and encouraging economic […]

November 1, 2019

October – historically a spooky month for stocks – wasn’t too scary this year. An ominous cloud typically hangs over the market in October due to the stockmarket crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987 and the 2008 financial crisis, […]

October 25, 2019

European stocks edged lower on Friday, in the first opportunity for Continental stocks to react to Vice President Mike Pence’s critical comments toward China, as earnings season continued to generally favorable investor reaction. After closing Thursday at its highest level […]

October 21, 2019

Stocks moved broadly higher on Wall Street Monday as investors watch the latest corporate earnings and developments in the U.S.-China trade war. China’s top negotiator said over the weekend that “substantial progress” was being made in its talks with the […]

October 18, 2019

China released a raft of economic data Friday morning, but the headline figure was 6%. That’s the rate of GDP growth in the third quarter as compared to the same period last year, and it’s lower than the 6.1% growth […]

October 11, 2019

Global stocks rose sharply Friday on optimism about U.S.-Chinese talks on ending a tariff war, while oil prices gained as much as 2% after a rocket attack on an Iranian tanker. Benchmarks in Frankfurt, Paris, London, Shanghai and Tokyo all […]

September 27, 2019

U.S. consumers are getting increasingly anxious about the trade war with China despite a recent thaw in the tensions ahead of the trade talks next month. The University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers showed in September a near record number […]

September 9, 2019

Global shares were mostly higher Monday as the week started with a mix of economic data for the region and the U.S. France’s CAC 40 fell less than 0.1% in early trading to 5,602.25, while Germany’s DAX gained 0.2% to […]

September 6, 2019

If you thought August was a rough month for stocks, you might want to brace yourself for this month. Stocks tumbled in August, handing the S&P 500 its second monthly loss this year. And odds are that investors won’t recoup […]