Tag: Market

What the Last Week’s Calmness Means for the Market

I’m actually welcoming the recent calm in stocks, as I think the pendulum swung a bit too much...

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Emerging-Market Funds Outflow Surpass Total 2013 Sales

Less than two months into 2014, global investors pulled more money out of emerging-market stock and bond funds...

How the Dovishness of Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen and Congress is Driving Stocks Higher

Comments by Yellen indicating she was “surprised” by the weakness in the December employment report, and that despite...

Stocks Rally to Best Two-Session Boost Since October

Confidence that the U.S. economy will weather the market's rough start this year boosted the S&P 500 to...

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Dividends Lead to Healthy Profits in a Bear Market

What’s the best way to survive and prosper when stocks slump?

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Why the “Emerging Market Crisis” of 2014 is Nothing to Worry About

With the U.S. economy showing strength and Europe back from the precipice of collapse, today's doom-and-gloom crowd has...

S&P 500 Has Worst Week Since 2012

Today featured the worst one-day decline in U.S. stocks since June of last year, wrapping up a weekly...

[Stock traders]

Traders Watching to See if Two-Day Sell-Off is Just the Start

With two straight decidedly down days for stocks, traders are wary about whether the sell-off could be a...

How You Can Make it Through a Rough Market

If you're wondering why the stock market has gotten significantly choppier in 2014 after that strong fourth-quarter rally...

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Wall Street Slides on China Data, Earnings

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average recording its third consecutive day of losses,...