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Booking a 229.90% Gain in Sony Options

Yesterday morning, I sent you a Special Alert recommending that you sell half of your Sony (SNE) July...

Daily Data Flow: Earnings Yield Hits 58-Year High; Deficit to Fall to $642 Billion; Yen, Euro Down

A strong earnings yield sent stocks in the S&P 500 to a 58-year high earlier today. Although the...

Booking 75%+ Gains in Sony Options

Your position in Sony soared 5.41% yesterday on news that Daniel Loeb, a New York billionaire, is calling...

Daily Data Flow: Mixed Day for Stocks; Investors Borrowing Big from Portfolios; Dollar up for Third Straight Session

In the wake of better-than-expected April retail sales data, stocks had a mixed day, with about three stocks...

Upping Your Bet on Japan — And High-Risk Irish Biotech Play

Markets continued their relentless march higher, with the Dow Jones up 0.97% and S&P 500 hitting another new...

Daily Data Flow: S&P, Nasdaq Rise; Jobs Picture Brightens for Baby Boomers; U.S. Posts Largest Budget Surplus in Five Years

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose modestly earlier today following Thursday’s losses, as the indexes were on track...

Dollar Posts Four-Year High against Yen; Market Gains May Momentum

Dollar Posts Four-Year High against Yen… (Reuters) Last week’s U.S. non-farm unemployment report has evolved into the Swiss...

Daily Data Flow: Earnings to Raise S&P 500 to Inflation-Adjusted High; Jobless Claims Lowest in More Than Five Years; Dollar Hits 100-Yen Level

Corporate earnings are likely to rise high enough to send the S&P 500 Index to a "real" record...

Daily Data Flow: Earnings Keep Dow over 15,000; Colleges Attracting Rich Students, Shortchanging Poor; Euro Rises on German Data

Earnings Keep Dow over 15,000 (Bloomberg) After passing 15,000 points yesterday, today's earnings kept the Dow above that...