Well they tried... as they say over at Minyanville.com, the cancer just might be larger than the system - this is what seems to be happening. As we wrote Tuesday [S&P 500 Looks Ready to Bow Out] we were anticipating this and unlike last Thursday we would actually not be anticipating any turnaround and in fact be riding this leg down...I come from the school that the more times you test a le...
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One rule that's held consistently in the recent market is that reaching for yield has cost investors in performance. I took a look at the FINRA data and the numbers were eye-opening. Here are the advance/decline numbers this past week for bonds in their investment grade index and bonds in their high-yield index (in parentheses):Tuesday, Nov. 18th: 1611/1232 (347/639)Monday, Nov. 17th: 1374/1422...
The news of the day was hardly positive, what with poor housing figures, more worries about the automakers, and concern in credit markets, but the late-day implosion probably sparked more than a few corner-office types storming onto the trading floor and shouting to nobody in particular, “What the hell just happened?” The collapse of major financial stocks — Citigroup finishe...
Filed under: Market matters, Viacom (VIA), Marvel Entertainment (MVL)Well, I've finally done it. I sold my entire position of Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL). It wasn't an easy decision. When I covered Marvel's latest earnings report, I alluded to the issue of emotion. My emotion, to be specific. I stated that it most likely would be in my best interest to get out of the stock since there real...
Citigroup Inc., in 2007, spent considerable effort in trying to launch what came to be known as “The Entity,” a giant Golemesque structure that would gobble up problematic assets known as structured investment vehicles. Citigroup has become that Entity, and markets don’t like it. The company’s equity and debt have been hit after it said it would take on $17 billion of th...
“Let me be as clear as I think I’ve tried to be publicly. We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo.” With those words, Steven Ballmer seemed to take a lot of the air out of Tuesday’s speculation that his company was still interested in buying the Web concern it aggressively pursued earlier this year. [...]
From Barron's: FOR A FLEETING TIME TUESDAY AFTERNOON, the stars in the stock market were aligned in a configuration not seen in a half-century: shares yielded more than bonds.Specifically, the dividend yield on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index touched 3.57% at 1:13 PM Eastern time, exceeding the 3.54% yield on the benchmark Treasury 10-year note, according to Bloomberg News. That's som...
The 15-nation euro inched up to $1.2593 in midday New York trading Wednesday from $1.2579 late Tuesday, coming off an overnight high
Power Lunch: On Tuesday, analyst Tina Vital offered CNBC her oil stock picks. Which company is on her 4-star list?
Wed, Nov 19, 12:01 PM ET
Question: On Tuesday, analyst Tina Vital offered CNBC her oil stock picks. Which company is on her 4-star list? Answer: Marathon Oil Subscribe to our RSS feed to ensure you receive the latest Bonus Bucks questions and answers as well as our investment strategies, stock tips and the unveiling of our own contest portfolio Click here to
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