Patriots’ Super Bowl Win Bodes Ill for the Stock Market

By Mike Murphy, MarketWatch That’s according to the Super Bowl Indicator, a fun but completely unscientific predictor that says stocks will fall if a team from the original American Football League, or its AFC descendant, wins the Super Bowl. If a team from the original National Football League — the leagues merged in 1970 under the NFL banner, divided into...

Patriots’ Super Bowl Win Bodes Ill for the Stock Market

By Mike Murphy, MarketWatch That’s according to the Super Bowl Indicator, a fun but completely unscientific predictor that says stocks will fall if a team from the original American Football League, or its AFC descendant, wins the Super Bowl. If a team from the original National Football League — the leagues merged in 1970 under the NFL banner, divided into...

Weekly Market Outlook – Choppy Bullishness is Still Bullishness

Last week ended on a bullish note, mostly in response to a surprisingly decent jobs report for January.  A closer inspection of the market's daily action, though, reveals the gain was a "just barely" situation.   It was also a fairly volatile week, starting with a bearish gap but while in a bullish gap on Friday.  And, most of the...

Weekly Market Outlook – Choppy Bullishness is Still Bullishness

Last week ended on a bullish note, mostly in response to a surprisingly decent jobs report for January.  A closer inspection of the market's daily action, though, reveals the gain was a "just barely" situation.   It was also a fairly volatile week, starting with a bearish gap but while in a bullish gap on Friday.  And, most of the...

Getting Started in Options Trading, Part Two – How Option Pricing Works

Ready to get started trading options?  If you're brand new to option-trading and don't yet know the difference between a put and a call, then be sure to read through the first part of this two-part lesson before proceeding.  The second part you're reading now looks at a couple of the nuances and oddities in how options are priced in...

Getting Started in Options Trading, Part Two – How Option Pricing Works

Ready to get started trading options?  If you're brand new to option-trading and don't yet know the difference between a put and a call, then be sure to read through the first part of this two-part lesson before proceeding.  The second part you're reading now looks at a couple of the nuances and oddities in how options are priced in...

Macy’s shares surge 10% on report it’s in deal talks with Hudson’s Bay

By Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC Macy's shares surged more than 10 percent Friday as takeover rumors continued to swirl around the company. The largest U.S. department store chain has been approached by Canada's Hudson's Bay, the owner of Saks and Lord & Taylor, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. These people said the talks are...

Macy’s Shares Surge 10% on Report it’s in Deal Talks with Hudson’s Bay

By Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC Macy's shares surged more than 10 percent Friday as takeover rumors continued to swirl around the company. The largest U.S. department store chain has been approached by Canada's Hudson's Bay, the owner of Saks and Lord & Taylor, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. These people said the talks are...

Trump Administration Plans to Roll Back Dodd-Frank Law, Fiduciary Rule

By Michael C. Bender and Damian Paletta, MarketWatch President Donald Trump on Friday plans to sign an executive action to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, in a sweeping plan to dismantle much of the regulatory system put in place after the financial crisis. Trump also plans another executive action aimed at rolling back a controversial regulation scheduled to...

Trump Administration Plans to Roll Back Dodd-Frank Law, Fiduciary Rule

By Michael C. Bender and Damian Paletta, MarketWatch President Donald Trump on Friday plans to sign an executive action to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, in a sweeping plan to dismantle much of the regulatory system put in place after the financial crisis. Trump also plans another executive action aimed at rolling back a controversial regulation scheduled to...
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