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Sensex Opens Marginally Up; IT & FMCG Stocks Gain
Asian stock markets are lower today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares fall. The Nikkei 225 is trading flat while the Hang Seng is down 0.2%. The Shanghai Composite is trading down by 0.3%. The S&P 500 ended higher on Wednesday after a brutal two-day selloff, but the market faltered towards the session’s end as Apple shares surrendered gains. Back home, India share […]
The Money Supply Is Never Too Small
For most economists, there is the need to keep the so-called economy along the path of stable economic growth and stable price inflation. One of the reasons for the possible deviation of the economy from the stable growth path is a change in the demand for money. If the authorities fail to make sure that […]
Conference Board Leading Economic Index: October Increase But Possible Slowing Pace
The latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for October increased fractionally to 112.1 from 112.0 in September. The Coincident Economic Index (CEI) came in at 104.7, up from 104.5 the previous month. The Conference Board LEI for the U.S. increased in October, primarily due to improving consumer expectations for business conditions, the yield spread and the […]
Three Tech Stocks For Dividend Investors To Buy Now
Tech stocks have been unpredictable at times recently, but the sector has proven it can rebound from volatility strongly, and there is no question that tech has been the leader of the market’s strong multiyear run up to this point. However, this might mean that income investors—those focused on finding companies with solid dividends—might be […]
Aannd … An Options Selling Fund Blows Up
The options market is still complicated. Last week I wrote a post about the extent to which the options market does not give money away for free, citing a possible straddle on Nvidia (NVDA) that an investor could have sold on Thursday for $20 and been immediately underwater on Friday after the company’s earnings report. Then sure […]
Thanksgiving Trading Strategy
(Video length 00:42:28) “Once you understand what excellence is all about…you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline.” Crude Oil is bearish with a $4.00 move lower, telling me to anticipate a range tomorrow morning and plan to use buyer-failures up above the moving average for a selling-opportunities… E-Mini S&P is bearish and trading […]
When The Computer Herds Hit The Exits
“In a 2010 study of the 2010 Flash Crash, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission found that high frequency traders substantially increased volatility during the event and accelerated the crash…The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the stock regulator in Australia, found in a 2012 study that during volatile markets high frequency traders reduce […]
The Three Largest Cryptocurrencies – Wednesday, Nov. 21
With so much focus on bitcoin lately, we’ve added a new weekly update that tracks the three largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional […]
Existing Home Sales Rise First Time In Seven Months
Existing home sales rose 1.7%, the first increase since March. Year-over-year sales are down 5.1%. Mortgage News Daily reports Existing Home Sales Break Free From Losing Streak, Posting October Gains. Existing home sales broke their extended losing streak in October, increasing 1.4 percent from September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.22 million completed sales. […]
