January’s ability to predict stock-market returns improves in postelection years By Sue Chang, MarketWatch As January goes, so goes the year’s stock market. If that theory bears out, then 2017 will likely be another gratifying year for investors. The January Barometer is a reference to the belief that the market’s performance in January foretells how stocks will perform from February...
From Reuters, at CNBC Germany is using a "grossly undervalued" euro to gain advantage over the United States and its own European Union partners, Donald Trump's top trade adviser told the Financial Times. Peter Navarro, the head of Trump's new National Trade Council, told the newspaper that the euro was like an "implicit Deutsche Mark" whose low valuation gave Germany...
From Reuters, at CNBC Germany is using a "grossly undervalued" euro to gain advantage over the United States and its own European Union partners, Donald Trump's top trade adviser told the Financial Times. Peter Navarro, the head of Trump's new National Trade Council, told the newspaper that the euro was like an "implicit Deutsche Mark" whose low valuation gave Germany...
By Anne Steel, MarketWatch Shares of Under Armour Inc. slid as the company posted an unexpected decline in quarterly profit and issued a disappointing sales forecast for 2017 as the athletic gear maker said it struggled with its key North American business. Shares dropped 27% premarket to $21.19. For 2017, the company expects revenue to grow 11% to 12% to...
By Anne Steel, MarketWatch Shares of Under Armour Inc. slid as the company posted an unexpected decline in quarterly profit and issued a disappointing sales forecast for 2017 as the athletic gear maker said it struggled with its key North American business. Shares dropped 27% premarket to $21.19. For 2017, the company expects revenue to grow 11% to 12% to...
By Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch U.S. stocks on Monday descended significantly for the first time in the Donald Trump postelection era that delivered a multimonth shot in the arm to equity investors. There are signs that stocks, which have risen on hope that the new president would unfurl a slate of policies favorable to Wall Street, may see a healthy downturn...
By Mark DeCambre, MarketWatch U.S. stocks on Monday descended significantly for the first time in the Donald Trump postelection era that delivered a multimonth shot in the arm to equity investors. There are signs that stocks, which have risen on hope that the new president would unfurl a slate of policies favorable to Wall Street, may see a healthy downturn...
Puts, calls, strike prices, expiration dates… the lexicon can be intimidating to a newcomer. But, trading options isn't the wizardry it may appear to be from the outside. In fact, with just a few minutes worth of reading a trader interested in capitalizing on the power and benefit of options can be ready to do so. An option, in simplest...
It took more than a month to get over the hump, but it finally happened — the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally cleared the ballyhooed 20,000 mark. Oh, there wasn't a shred of follow-through, but the headlines were plenty dramatic. What's next? Good question. While the indices are overbought and stocks are overvalued, that doesn't matter until it does… and...
It took more than a month to get over the hump, but it finally happened — the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally cleared the ballyhooed 20,000 mark. Oh, there wasn't a shred of follow-through, but the headlines were plenty dramatic. What's next? Good question. While the indices are overbought and stocks are overvalued, that doesn't matter until it does… and...
