Two Years after the S&P Downgrade; Fast-Food Workers Want to SuperSize Wages

Two Years after the S&P Downgrade (Yahoo! Finance) It was just two years ago today that the S&P’s credit rating…

11 years ago

Betting on a Bounce in Gentherm (THRM)

It was another solid week for global stock markets last week, with the Dow Jones up 0.64% and S&P 500…

11 years ago

Jobs Data Provides Market’s Small Gain; U.S. Dollar Falls to Session Lows Against Euro, Yen; Europe Rallies Heading into Weekend

Jobs Data Provides Market’s Small Gain (Bloomberg) July was host to a lower-than-expected number of jobs added, and investors took…

11 years ago

S&P 500 Reaches 1700; Nikkei Hits One-Month High; U.S. Crude Rallies

S&P 500 Reaches 1700  (Bloomberg) For the first time in U.S. History, a general rise in U.S. stocks sent the S&P…

11 years ago

Is the Stock Market about to Roll Over?

Stock analyst Eric Parnell recently wrote a column in Seeking Alpha, “Another Troubling Sign for Stocks.” He wrote, “U.S. stocks…

11 years ago

Fed is Repeating Itself; Beef Prices to Rise; EU Banks Creeping Up

Getting to Love “The Same Ole’ Same Ole’ (YahooFinance) For the last couple of months, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben…

11 years ago

ETF Talk: A Passage to India

India’s expanding manufacturing activity of late is an encouraging sign for investors who previously may have avoided that emerging market…

11 years ago

A Macro Data Extravaganza

Today we saw a flood of alphabet soup data, with news on the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the ADP report…

11 years ago

S&P 500 Declines on Fed Silence; U.S. Dollar Soars on Strong Data; Economy Gained Momentum in Second Quarter

S&P 500 Declines on Fed Silence (Bloomberg) A lack of news from the Federal Reserve reversed Tuesday’s stock market rally,…

11 years ago