July 8, 2016: Markets opened higher Friday following a soaring non-farm payrolls report. Early indications for falling equities prices were blown away by the report that 278,000 new jobs were created in…
24/7 Wall St. wanted to take a look at the top five positions in the Buffett holdings that were the worst year-to-date performers.
It was just last week that investors learned that all of the major banks were shown to have passed their Federal Reserve stress tests. Now the capital return plans (CCAR) have been…
June 29, 2016: Markets opened higher again Wednesday and every sector is again posting a gain as the closing bell approaches. A drawdown in U.S. crude oil inventories coupled with a weaker…
Warren Buffett is deemed by many investors and market watchers to be the greatest investor of the modern era. Some may not agree at all, but Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is not…
June 27, 2016: Markets opened down again Monday after a full weekend of fretting about the Brexit vote. Again a stronger dollar has weighed heavily on the basic materials and energy sectors,…
June 23, 2016: Markets opened higher for a fourth straight day Thursday, perhaps reflecting investors’ belief that Britain will vote to remain in the European Union. All ten stock sectors are on…
June 14, 2016: Markets opened lower for the fourth straight session Tuesday as the dollar rose sharply versus the euro and investors wait for Wednesday’s announcement from the FOMC on whether or…
June 13, 2016: Markets opened lower for the third straight session Monday as the dollar weakened against the yen and the euro, and investors took some risk off while waiting for the…
June 9, 2016: Markets opened lower Thursday as a confluence of factors gave traders and investors the jitters. Korea’s central bank cut its policy rate, oil gave back some of its recent…
By one estimate about a quarter of all U.S. households used a reloadable debit card in 2014, and according to Federal Reserve statistics more than 3 billion transactions were made on the…
May 24, 2016: Markets opened higher Tuesday trailing along behind some strength in Europe exchanges due to rising expectations that the European Central Bank will kick out another round of easing after…
24/7 Wall St. recently released an article entitled “Major Changes in Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings.” Among these were several of the largest financial firms in the United States Being…
May 20, 2016: Markets opened higher Friday as the dollar started out strong and oil started out weak. The dollar eventually ended up with a small increase, but the June crude contract…
May 17, 2016: Markets opened lower Tuesday following a higher-than-expected consumer price index (CPI) reading. Housing starts came in a bit below expectations. European markets traded lower, offsetting earlier gains in Asia.…
