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Japanese Shares Surge Amid Asia Rally As Investors Super-Excited World Didn’t End
It’s all green screens out there early on as the relief rally gathered steam in the overnight. Bottom line: Hurricane Irma wasn’t as catastrophic as feared and North Korea decided maybe it wasn’t a fantastic idea to launch another missile ahead of a new sanctions vote in the Security Council where it still enjoys the […]
How To Find The Best Biotech Shares – Every Time
When you’re evaluating most new stocks, it makes good sense to look at technical indicators – such as price-to-earnings ratio (P/E), profit margins, or revenue per share, to name a couple – so you know what you’re buying. But here’s the rub. When you’re scouting a promising biotech stock, the indicators I mentioned just won’t tell you […]
Irma And Harvey Insured Losses Expected To Top $100b, Says Barclays
Barclays analyst Jay Gelb notes initial indications are Hurricane Irma’s impact on Florida could result in insured losses of up to $60B. Irma will likely be the largest storm to ever impact the U.S., although not as bad as if Miami suffered a direct hit, Gelb tells investors in a research note on the insurance […]
Investing Apathy & The Death Of Your Financial Goals
Recently, Ryan Vlastelica penned a column suggesting investors should simply be “apathetic” when it comes to their money. “Apathy doesn’t sound like a sensible investment philosophy, but it may be one of the most successful approaches a person can employ to grow wealth.” Listen. I get it. You can’t beat the market, so just “buy and hold.” Over a long […]
Top 5 Things To Know In The Market Today, September 11th
Top 5 Things to Know Before You Start Trading #1 Risk sentiment on Asian equity markets is clearly positive this morning. The damage of Hurricane Irma is very substantial, but markets apparently assume that the impact on the US economy is manageable. The tensions between the US and North Korea remain in the headlines as the […]
Global Stocks Roar Back To All-Time Highs As Irma, North Korea Fears Fade
And we’re back at all time highs. With traders paring back risk positions on Friday ahead of a weekend full of potential risk events, Monday has seen a global “risk-on” session in which global stocks rose back to record highs and US futures jumped, the dollar gained, Treasuries retreated, while VIX and dollar slumped as […]
Indian Indices Trade Strong; IndusInd Bank Surges On Merger News
After opening the day in green, share markets in India continued the uptrend and are trading in green. Sectoral indices are trading on a positive note with stocks in the capital goods sector and stocks in the power sector leading the gains. The BSE Sensex is trading up by 210 points (up 0.7%), and the NSE Nifty breached the 10,000 mark, and is trading up […]
America Can’t Afford To Rebuild
Adolphe Yvon Genius of America c1870 A number of people have argued over the past few days that Hurricane Harvey will NOT boost the US housing market. As if any such argument would or should be required. Hurricane Irma will not provide any such boost either. News about the ‘resurrection’ of New Orleans post-Katrina has pretty much […]
US Dollar’s Decline Fueled Gains In Foreign Bonds Last Week
The US Dollar Index last week slumped to its lowest level in over two-and-a-half years, boosting returns in foreign bonds. Non-dollar corporate bonds topped the performance list among the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange traded products. Notably, the top-four market performers for last week are offshore fixed-income funds. PowerShares International Corporate Bond Portfolio […]
Forex Week In Review – Monday, Sept. 11
Last week was a negative affair for the world’s major markets with only the DAX making gains. In Europe over the course of the week, the FTSE was down on last week’s close by 0.89% at 7377.6; the DAX ended at 12304, up by 1.3% on last week’s close; the CAC was down by 0.17% […]
