24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this week The CEOs are chosen on the basis of their company’s stock market and financial performances compared with their own industry groups and all large companies traded on US markets. Only firms with market caps of more than $5 billion were considered. 24/7 re...
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Hedge funds have had a lousy year, losing an average of 10.8%. But two hedge funds -- big winners in 2007 -- kept making money this year as well. Meanwhile, those two winners mask an awful lot of losers who will probably find their way into oblivion. The winners for 2008 (at least through September) are run by James Simons (a math genius whose money-making techniques elude explanation) and John...
Dr. James Schlesinger says the U.S. attitude towards oil “has only two modes – complacency and panic.” Schlesinger should know. In the 70’s he closely watched the Middle East as the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Then he would move onto become the first U.S. Secretary of Energy when oil prices were really starting to move up during the Carter Administration. He was in the th...
After Monday’s meltdown, investors are tiptoeing back into futures Tuesday, suggesting an early rally for markets. Hopeful signs for restructuring plans from the nation’s automakers has buoyed shares of those stocks in premarket action in advance of their monthly sales reports, meanwhile. For about five days, it looked as if the market had developed a bit of a spine, but that proved...
Thanksgiving rally falls with a thud. After a five-day rally that spurred hopes of a lasting recovery, yesterday's market gave back much of the gains in one of its worst days ever. Monday's trading saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 7.7% to 8,149.09, the S&P 500 -8.9% to 816.21 and Nasdaq -8.95% to 1,398.07. The massive sell-off was spurred on by another round of negative economic n...
Excerpt from Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut's latest essay, published Monday (December 1st):...Ladies and gentlemen, the time to be a trader was a year ago, not here at the best valuation metrics seen in a decade. As Société Générale’s James Montier states:
Futures Trading Room Signals & Performance for December 2, 2008 Monitor performance of our Expert Moderators in the Futures Trading Room. Track the trading action of the Futures and Commodities markets for potential trading trends. JT Time L or S Symbol First Winner Alert Last Winner Alert Points Profit or Loss 9:32 AM S YM 8209 8188 21 $105.00 9:41 AM S TF 420.50 417.70 2.80 $280.00 9:42 ...
James B. Stewart on the smart way to cull stocks.
24/7 Wall St. will name its annual CEO of the Year next week. The executive will be picked from a field of ten which we will profile this week. The CEOs are chosen on the basis of their company’s stock market and financial performances compared with their own industry groups and all large companies traded on US markets. Only firms with market caps of more than $5 billion were considered. 24/7 r...
Dollar Rises as Global Manufacturing and Stock Markets Plunge - International Business Times
Mon, Dec 1, 5:43 PM ET
Reuters Dollar Rises as Global Manufacturing and Stock Markets PlungeInternational Business Times,NY- 42 minutes agoJames A. Hyerczyk is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor with the National Futures Association. He has been actively involved in the futures markets …ECB To Cut Rates This Week? Forex MarketBack to Risk Aversion Contrarian ProfitsJapan returns to deflation brink Asia Tim...