The scariest apart about Tuesday's renewal of some all-too-familiar weakness? Not that it's happening in response to poor earnings reports. It's that it's happening despite some relatively encouraging ones. As of the most recent look, the S&P 500 is on pace to have earned $35.83 per share for the first quarter of 2018, up from an estimate of $35.64 as...
The scariest apart about Tuesday's renewal of some all-too-familiar weakness? Not that it's happening in response to poor earnings reports. It's that it's happening despite some relatively encouraging ones. As of the most recent look, the S&P 500 is on pace to have earned $35.83 per share for the first quarter of 2018, up from an estimate of $35.64 as...
Gold timers stubbornly refuse to throw in the towel By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch The odds of a contrarian buy signal for gold are even more remote today than they were six weeks ago. Mid-March, you may recall, was when I last devoted a column to analyzing gold-market sentiment. Bullion at the time was trading around $1,320 ounce, and I concluded...
Gold timers stubbornly refuse to throw in the towel By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch The odds of a contrarian buy signal for gold are even more remote today than they were six weeks ago. Mid-March, you may recall, was when I last devoted a column to analyzing gold-market sentiment. Bullion at the time was trading around $1,320 ounce, and I concluded...
By Keris Lahiff, CNBC Apple's had a rotten few days, and one market watcher sees more trouble ahead for the world's largest company by market cap as concerns over iPhone demand mount. "It's about slowing sales within the emerging markets, within China, that's the concern," Chad Morganlander, portfolio manager at Washington Crossing Advisors, told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Friday. Revenue...
By Keris Lahiff, CNBC Apple's had a rotten few days, and one market watcher sees more trouble ahead for the world's largest company by market cap as concerns over iPhone demand mount. "It's about slowing sales within the emerging markets, within China, that's the concern," Chad Morganlander, portfolio manager at Washington Crossing Advisors, told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Friday. Revenue...
By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC A veteran investor suggests powerful market shift is coming, in favor of bonds. Cresset Wealth's Jack Ablin predicts leaping Treasury yields are here to stay — a scenario that could put equity investors in a quandary as the government's borrowing costs spike. "I think there's still a lot to go," the firm's chief investment officer said...
By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC A veteran investor suggests powerful market shift is coming, in favor of bonds. Cresset Wealth's Jack Ablin predicts leaping Treasury yields are here to stay — a scenario that could put equity investors in a quandary as the government's borrowing costs spike. "I think there's still a lot to go," the firm's chief investment officer said...
Whoops. For the better part of the first half of April, it looked like the market was going to make good on the recovery hints it dropped early in the month. Now that entire effort is being called into question. Though the rebound gain was never a move backed by high volume, a major hurdle that could have become a...
Whoops. For the better part of the first half of April, it looked like the market was going to make good on the recovery hints it dropped early in the month. Now that entire effort is being called into question. Though the rebound gain was never a move backed by high volume, a major hurdle that could have become a...
