Category: Articles

Stock Market Looks to Apple, Google Earnings for Jolt

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The average stock has risen 0.86% after third quarter results. The stock market may finally get the excitement that’s been lacking in the coming week, with the two most valuable companies in the U.S.—Apple Inc. ...

How the almighty dollar will tell you where stocks are going next

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Don’t look to earnings to bust this market out of its rut. Stock futures are pointing lower even as Microsoft rockets toward a record, trading in premarket action above its dot-com peak after its latest ...

Get Rich While Doing Good

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Wall Street has worked hard to earn its reputation for bad behavior, from nearly bringing down the global financial system with subprime mortgages to signing up customers for fraudulent accounts. But even as the bankers ...

Investor Cash Levels Jump Toward Levels Not Seen Since 9/11

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Fears of a bond-market crash, a breakdown in globalization, a new crisis in the euro area? There were a bevy of reasons for fund managers to push their cash balances to 5.8 percent of their portfolios in ...

Draghi Sends Corporate Yields So Negative He Can’t Buy Them

https://alaricsecurities.com/draghi-sends-corporate-yields-negative-cant-buy/
Yields on some company bonds are quoted below minus 0.4% Central bank asset purchases now exceed 1.3 trillion euros The European Central Bank is starting to price itself out of the corporate-bond market as yields ...

Tesla Dominates U.S. Luxury Sedan Sales

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When it comes to big premium cars, the automaker says BMW, Mercedes, and Audi aren’t even close. Tesla Motors Co. is facing some serious challenges keeping up with its ever-expanding ambitions, but one thing is certain: ...

Tiny Bank-Beating Trading Firm Doesn’t Use Any Human Traders

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Self-learning machines help put XTX among top currency traders Company is expanding into other markets, geographies One of the world’s fastest-growing trading shops doesn’t have any traders. XTX Markets Ltd. has emerged as a foreign-exchange ...

S&P 500’s ‘triangle’ chart pattern warns of a big selloff, analyst says

https://alaricsecurities.com/sp-500s-triangle-chart-pattern-warns-big-selloff-analyst-says/
Chart pattern to be resolved soon, and one chart watcher says ‘it’s gonna be big’. The S&P 500 is moving fast toward an impending breakout that could be bad news for investors. “And it’s gonna ...

Opinion: 5 gold stocks favored by fund managers today

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If the U.S. economy softens, many of the forces hurting gold will reverse themselves. Gold-mining investors who are smug because their stocks handily doubled or more this year got smacked this week. The Market Vectors ...

Opinion: 29 undervalued dividend stocks in all U.S. sectors

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Each company has a dividend yield of at least 3% and the ability to increase payouts. With dividend stocks hot this year, some market experts are advising investors to be cautious and selective. Identifying companies ...