How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 16,204.83; -211.75;-1.29% S&P 500: 1,880.02; -35.43; -1.85% Nasdaq: 4,363.14; -146.42; -3.25% The Dow Jones Industrial Average today (Friday) fe...
LinkedIn Plunges 43% Earlier today, in a strange twist of fate I exchanged emails with Georgetown University professor Salil Mehta regarding Facebook (FB). I replied to Mehta with a comment not regard...
State Street has had a tremendous advantage in the exchange-traded fund world by being the first issuer of dedicated sector funds. Their highly successful SPDR sector series debuted in 1998 and has sp...
Spinoffs have historically been great investments, and right now a number of companies are feeling the pressure to break apart to unlock more value. These are the stories you should be buying and sell...
If the Chinese were intent on financial reform, and that meant trying perhaps the impossible task of a managed bubble deformation, the genesis of the idea was forged in the United States. China’s va...
Nice economic recovery. Not. Stocks have fallen to key support. I still think the SP 500 is forming a symmetrical triangle or a bear flag with more downside to come, but we’ll have to see how ne...
The Coca-Cola Company (KO – Analyst Report) is set to report fourth-quarter and full-year 2015 results on Feb 9, before the market opens. Last quarter, the company delivered a positive earnin...
We have ended a busy week for equities with a mixed session for Asia and it was the Nikkei that was to spoil the party yet again! Closing the day down 1.3% this puts the Nikkei index return on the wee...