Locking in Your Big Bull Market Profits

Global stock markets closed a mixed week: the S&P 500 fought to a 0.71% gain, while the Nasdaq retreated 0.35%.…

11 years ago

Consumers Spending like U.S. Economy’s Recovering Nicely; Detroit is Not Alone in Dire Straits; Japanese Vote to Push Ahead with Economic Reforms

Investors hear a different opinion each week as to whether the U.S. economy actually is recovering, or merely being propped…

11 years ago

General Electric Gains Boost U.S. Stocks; Gold Hits One-Month High; Fed Comments Continue to Bring U.S. Dollar Down

General Electric Gains Boost U.S. Stocks U.S. stocks rose Friday, as General Electric's 4.6% gain offset losses by Google and…

11 years ago

Chinese Debt to Stumble After 16-Year Run; Global Indexes Go Their Own Way; Bubble Me Once, Shame On You… Bubble Me Twice

Investors in Chinese corporate debt have just received a wakeup call. After a total of 38 Chinese debt issuers were…

11 years ago

S&P 500 Hits New Record; U.S. Oil Reaches 16-Month High; U.S. Dollar and Euro Rise on Yen

S&P 500 Hits New Record (Bloomberg) The S&P reached a new record Thursday, as a second day of Congressional testimony from…

11 years ago

Can You Beat the Market?

“FreedomFest is where the best ideas and strategies are fleshed out. I attend all three days.” -- Steve Forbes I…

11 years ago

Commodities to Continue Swoon thru 2013; BlackRock, Inc. Boosts Revenue 32 Percent in Second Quarter; Company Serving ‘Misfit Borrowers’ to Create ‘Misfit Investments?’

Commodities to Continue Swoon thru 2013 (CNBC) Commodities investors hoping for a turnaround in the second half of the year…

11 years ago

ETF Talk: Capitalizing on Japan’s Economic Uptick

The Bank of Japan released a report on July 12 that revealed the country’s first real signs of economic recovery…

11 years ago

Making Money Alert: The Honey Badger Stock Market

Stocks just want to go higher, and it doesn’t matter if the Fed is going to peel back quantitative easing,…

11 years ago

Daily Data Flow: Ben Bernanke Clarifies Fed Policy; U.S. Stocks Rally on Fed Flexibility; Gold Falls as the Dollar Rises

In comments made today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke advised that the bank’s current quantitative easing (QE) policy was “by…

11 years ago