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Stocks Jump as Evidence Mounts That the Fed Is Done Hiking Rates
Stocks just exploded higher on hopes that the Federal Reserve is done hiking interest rates. The S&P 500 rose 5.9 percent between Friday, October 27, and Friday, November 3. It was the biggest weekly gain since last November. About 94 percent of the index's...
Materials ETF Has Best Week in 7 Years as Fed Goes Dovish
Stocks like chemical makers and gold miners have struggled for much of the year, but now they're ripping amid hopes of Federal Reserve rate cuts. The SPDR Materials ETF (XLB) is up almost 8 percent since Friday, putting it on pace for its best week since December...
Why Tomorrow’s Non-Farm Payrolls May Be an Anticlimax
Monthly non-farm payrolls are usually a big deal for the market, but that may not be the case tomorrow. After all, the big story now is the possibility of rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Officials from the U.S. central bank have grown increasingly dovish, including...
Why $9,000 May Be in the Cards for Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) has more than doubled this year and is now around $7,800, nearing the $9,000 level observed at the start of May. Its market capitalization is now around $275 billion -- roughly the size of a small, developed country's stock market.Bitcoin's audience has...
Federal Reserve Joins the Global Flock of Dovish Central Bankers
Stocks just had their second-biggest rally of the year, partially because of the Federal Reserve. It's worth recapping what happened. The story actually began on Monday, when James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed said a rate cut "may be warranted soon." Then yesterday,...
Record Options Volume in New Tech Stock Before Earnings
Someone's looking for a strong earnings report from a new technology stock. Docusign (DOCU), a provider of online contracts and e-signatures, went public in April 2018. Earnings beat estimates the first three times it reported. And, yesterday a large options trader...
‘Sell in May and Go Away’ — Is the Saying True This Year?
"Sell in May and go away." Will the old adage work this year? The S&P 500 fell 6.6 percent in May as geopolitical fears and weak earnings hammered sentiment. It was the first losing month of 2019, and included four consecutive negative weeks. Virtually every...
Technology & Communication
Tesla and Apple Leap After Stock Splits. Will Amazon.com Follow?
Apple and Tesla jumped to new highs today after splitting their stocks. Will other big Nasdaq companies like Amazon.com follow? AAPL rose more than 3 percent and TSLA spiked over 13 percent. Their gains helped lift the the Nasdaq-100 to its ninth record level in the...