Get ready for the stock market’s October surprise

– Investors can expect a bumpier ride down Wall Street – By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Fasten your seatbelts. October is just around the corner, and historically it’s the most volatile month of all for stocks. The data are summarized in the chart, below. (For the statisticians among you: The standard deviation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, +0.09%   daily...

Get ready for the stock market’s October surprise

– Investors can expect a bumpier ride down Wall Street – By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch Fasten your seatbelts. October is just around the corner, and historically it’s the most volatile month of all for stocks. The data are summarized in the chart, below. (For the statisticians among you: The standard deviation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s DJIA, +0.09%   daily...

TIAA Investments sees stocks slipping 4% by year’s end – here’s why

By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC This year's historic market rally may be running out of steam. TIAA Investments' Brian Nick sees stocks ending the year below current levels. His S&P 500 Index target for the end of 2017 is 2400 — a four percent decline. "That's been our target the entire year. When we came into the year I'd say we...

TIAA Investments sees stocks slipping 4% by year’s end – here’s why

By Stephanie Landsman, CNBC This year's historic market rally may be running out of steam. TIAA Investments' Brian Nick sees stocks ending the year below current levels. His S&P 500 Index target for the end of 2017 is 2400 — a four percent decline. "That's been our target the entire year. When we came into the year I'd say we...

Crude Oil Gets Over the Hump

Almost a week ago we took a close look at a crude oil price chart, pointing out how it was close to a major breakout above a key technical ceiling around $50.40. It actually edged above that mark the very next day, though not decisively so. We like to see convincing moves to proverbially seal the deal. That move came...

Crude Oil Gets Over the Hump

Almost a week ago we took a close look at a crude oil price chart, pointing out how it was close to a major breakout above a key technical ceiling around $50.40. It actually edged above that mark the very next day, though not decisively so. We like to see convincing moves to proverbially seal the deal. That move came...

Weekly Market Outlook – Another Failed Rally Effort, But….

The bulls did all they could last week, but when it was all said and done, they just couldn't get anything going. On the other hand, it's not like the bears fared any better. The market remains on the fence, with optimism aching to keep the rally going, but realism about valuations keeping the lid on any effort to do...

Weekly Market Outlook – Another Failed Rally Effort, But….

The bulls did all they could last week, but when it was all said and done, they just couldn't get anything going. On the other hand, it's not like the bears fared any better. The market remains on the fence, with optimism aching to keep the rally going, but realism about valuations keeping the lid on any effort to do...

Some Unexpected Hot Spots Emerging

On Monday we took a look at some budding sector-based trends. Though they're difficult to trust simply because we're at a strange, mostly-bearish time of year and some of the previous new trends didn't pan out, at the very least we want to consider — and handicap — all possibilities that may lead to better trading opportunities. Breaking the market's...

Some Unexpected Hot Spots Emerging

On Monday we took a look at some budding sector-based trends. Though they're difficult to trust simply because we're at a strange, mostly-bearish time of year and some of the previous new trends didn't pan out, at the very least we want to consider — and handicap — all possibilities that may lead to better trading opportunities. Breaking the market's...
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