By Mike Larson On August 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I bet that Warren Buffett had a huge smile on his face last week. I say that because Buffett’s investment franchise, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 240 million shares of Apple (AAPL). And it pocketed...
By Jon D. Markman On August 10, 201804:03 AM Eastern
Stocks drifted like dandelion petals on a soft summer breeze this Thursday after the latest round of corporate earnings reports offered some support to investors still fearful of a trade war.
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By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201802:19 PM Eastern
Stocks drifted like dandelion petals on a soft summer breeze this morning. This happened after the latest round of corporate earnings reports offered some support to investors still fearful of a...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201804:11 AM Eastern
Stocks crisscrossed the unchanged line during most of the Wednesday session before stumbling clumsily into the close. It was a largely dull session with an unsatisfactory conclusion, or pretty...
By Jon D. Markman On August 8, 201803:00 PM Eastern
Stocks are scrambling around the unchanged line Wednesday afternoon. Bulls are breaking out the tech stocks in the Nasdaq 100 to new highs while at the same time struggling with the big cyclicals...
By Sean Brodrick On August 8, 201811:52 AM Eastern
I wanted to share with you my recent analysis. I start with my longer- and shorter-term outlook for the markets, I cover a big issue that Martin Weiss has been pounding the table about, and I go...
By Mike Larson On August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
All tech, all the time. That’s what most of the financial news coverage is about these days. Heck, even as I was writing this piece a CNBC segment called “The Next Big Tech Names” was running on...
By Jon D. Markman On August 8, 201804:11 AM Eastern
Stocks pushed higher for the fourth-straight session on Tuesday, with large-caps nearing record highs set in January.
Sure, the trade rift between China and the United States deepened, with the...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201803:26 PM Eastern
Stock rose Tuesday after another round of positive quarterly corporate earnings reports was not countered by any negative economic data releases or new tariff war developments.
Through 3 pm ET,...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201804:22 AM Eastern
Stocks took a while to warm up yesterday morning. But by late afternoon, all the major indexes were blinking green lights in front of blue skies.
The Dow Industrials were down as much as 50...