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By Jon D. Markman On September 10, 202106:28 AM Eastern
Stocks have now declined four days in a row. The S&P 500 fell to 4,493 on Thursday, a decline of 0.5%.
The weakness puts the benchmark back to the rising 20-day moving average at 4,490. The...
By Tony Sagami On September 10, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Have you ever owned a stock for 10 years? How about 20 years? Thirty? Investors used to buy and hold their mutual funds, index funds and even their stocks for decades. A big reason why was...
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By Jon D. Markman On September 9, 202103:36 PM Eastern
Stocks are scuffling today as traders weigh more corporate earnings reports and concerns the Federal Reserve will soon begin to taper fixed income asset purchases.
Traders have been jittery all...
By Jon D. Markman On September 9, 202106:28 AM Eastern
Stocks have now declined for three consecutive days, and the S&P 500 has lost 0.4% to 4,514.
I wrote on Tuesday that a test of the first important support level at 4,483 seemed inevitable. The...
By Kelly Green On September 9, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Have you noticed any new options while shopping online over the past year?
I’ve been a PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) user since the early 2000s when it was the way to pay for all the cool things I’d...
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By Jon D. Markman On September 8, 202112:13 PM Eastern
Stocks are slightly lower this morning, following up on Tuesday’s weakness.
Cyclical shares came under pressure Tuesday after economists at Goldman Sachs (GS) reduced the firm’s outlook for...
By Sean Brodrick On September 8, 202110:52 AM Eastern
The uranium market is white hot. While the long-term fundamentals of uranium are extremely bullish — see my latest Wealth Wave column on the topic — this shorter-term frenzy is probably thanks to...
By Jon D. Markman On September 8, 202106:28 AM Eastern
The first real trading session in September was not a great one for bulls. The S&P 500 closed at 4,520, down 0.3%, as returning traders worried about economic weakness and the prospect that the...
By Mike Larson On September 8, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Today I’m writing to you from an airplane.
It feels as surreal to type those words as it is to look around and see that we’re getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
But when it comes to...
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By Jon D. Markman On September 7, 202102:58 PM Eastern
Stocks are weaker after the apathetic action on Friday has continued. There is ongoing concern about a big September decline. That narrative is playing well in financial media. Bad news sells.
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