Special Report: Your Investing Guide for the Next Six Dangerous Stock Market Months (Complete with 14 picks)
Yikes. Does this market have enough volatility for you? And I think that volatility will only get worse over the next two to six months, I can't remember a market with so much potential to move up or down in big relatively short-term volatility as this one. Just as...
Stocks take a while but deliver expected bounce today
This morning it looked like we might not get the bounce I expected today after the Monday morning sell off and Monday afternoon recovery. The NASDAQ, dominated by the big tech names most likely to bounce today, started Tuesday off in a mild downturn. As of 11:07 a.m....
Big tech takes back its gains from yesterday
The Standard & Poor's 500 was down 1.76% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.99% today. But the worst damage was among the big tech names that had led the rally higher and that had bounced yesterday. Microsoft (MSFT) was down 2.80%. Amazon (AMZN) gave up 2.86%. Nvidia...Tech bounces off 50-day moving average
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Slide in the afternoon doesn’t augur well for tomorrow
The NASDAQ Composite was down an already punishing 2.75% at noon in New York. But the damage wasn't done for the day. The tech-heavy index closed the day down 4.11% And the big techs, the stocks that had driven the rally up and are now pacing the move down, sold off...
NASDAQ 100 moves into correction
Traders who bought on the dip at the end of last week were a bit early, the market is saying today. As of noon New York time, the Standard & Poor's 500 was down 1.91%; the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 1.56%, and the NASDAQ Composite was lower by a whopping...
Market passes baton back to Fed’s Powell Put for today’s rally
On Monday the Standard & Poor's 500 and the NASDAQ Composite hit new all-time highs on what I'm calling the Vaccine Put, the hope that we'll see the announcement of an approved coronavirus vaccine by early in 2021 or maybe even the end of 2020 or perhaps before...
What rally? Yes, tech has zoomed but the average stock in the S&P 500 was still down 28% from its February peak as of the Friday close.
Forget about a "V-shaped" recovery or a "W-shaped" bounce-pullback-move up again recovery. The talk on Wall Street is now about a "K-shaped" recovery where a handful of companies and their shares sooar ahead but where the average company and its stock lags way, way...
“Re-opening dependent” stocks outperform tech shares for another day–time to nibble on AAL, SIX, SHAK puts?
For yet another day shares of companies dependent on the re-opening of the U.S. economy and continued good news on job and spending gains during a time of coronavirus outperformed shares of tech companies. For example, while, as of 3:30 p.m. New York time today,...
Microsoft’s growth disappoints Wall Street in yesterday’s earnings report
Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) were down 4.35%at the close today in spite of the company's strong beat of Wall Street projections for the company's fiscal fourth quarter that ended on June 30. The company reported earnings of $1.46 a share, versus Wall Street projections...
Let the stimulus logrolling begin (I hope): Republicans near $1 trillion (maybe) with Democrats at $3 trillion as McConnell describes his plan on Senate floor
Of course, there isn't actually a Republican bill in the Senate yet, but in a floor speech today Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said “The American economy needs another shot of adrenaline.” McConnell also noted that infections are “climbing in hot spots around...Jim’s Stock Alerts
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