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2018 Outlook: Low Volatility and Defensive May Be Best Stock Market Strategy

Posted: December 30, 2017 at 10:05 am

The raging bull market in stocks charged on in 2017, and many investors are still considering how they should be positioned for 2018. After gains of 300% from the panic-selling ...
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Credit Suisse Increases Stock Market Expectations for 2018

Posted: December 21, 2017 at 10:21 am

Now that tax reform is all but signed into law, some firms and strategists have started to raise their expectations for 2018. 24/7 Wall St. has tracked more than a ...
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UBS Signals Stronger European Corporate Profits Than US in 2017

Posted: October 30, 2017 at 11:05 am

It is no secret that there is a raging bull market right now, and 2017 has only been an accelerated year within that long-term recovery after the Great Recession. Pro-business ...
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Has the Stock Market Peaked in 2017?

Posted: June 10, 2017 at 9:15 am

With the bull market now over eight years old and with investors having bought every sell-off for years, investors have to wonder if Friday's major sell-off in some of the ...
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Which Is the Best S&P 500 Index Mutual Fund or ETF for Investors Now?

Posted: February 22, 2017 at 5:01 pm

Investors have to be scratching their heads in 2017. After perhaps the most brutal election cycle of modern times, investors keep seeing the U.S. stock market challenge all-time highs almost ...
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Hedge Funds Bought Apple, P&G in Q3; Dumped Allergan, Charter

Posted: November 17, 2016 at 12:50 pm

Building on a turn toward more equity investments in the second quarter of this year, the top 50 hedge funds boosted their equity positions by 2.9% in the third quarter. ...
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New Stock Market Highs Fighting Many More Outside Pressures Than Usual: Time to Panic?

Posted: July 13, 2016 at 2:35 pm

Investors often wonder what to think when the stock market hits new all-time highs. Do they sell or do they chase the market higher? The bull market of the past ...
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If Investment Banks Know Financial Markets So Well, Why Are Their Stocks So Low?

Posted: July 7, 2016 at 10:45 am

It’s very easy to get lost in the cacophony of investment bank stock ratings and long-term trend calls on asset classes. When big banks like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Is George Soros Betting on Gold or Gold Bugs?

Posted: May 17, 2016 at 11:10 am

Billionaire investor George Soros reported Monday that his investment company, Soros Fund Management, has taken large positions in gold stocks. This is even as other big-time investors, including John Paulson who ...
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Why Goldman Sachs Sees Good News Being Bad for Stocks

Posted: April 6, 2016 at 10:40 am

The growing connectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) has allowed us to integrate more everyday devices and generally make life easier through the exchange of this information. Connecting the ...
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15 Reasons That US Recession Risks Have Almost Vanished for 2016

Posted: March 21, 2016 at 7:45 am

This year has by and large been a rather nerve-racking one all around. The presidential election has taken an unprecedented and zany path, the stock market went from steady in 2015 ...
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Why Analysts Still See Big Upside in Yahoo Despite the Critics

Posted: February 6, 2016 at 11:25 am

If you only listened to outside investor pundits or activist investors in the financial media, you might be tricked into thinking that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is on the brink of ...
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Despite S&P 500 Earnings Drag of Energy & Materials, Market Still No Bargain After Sell-Off

Posted: February 4, 2016 at 3:56 pm

Now that earnings season is well into its second half, 24/7 Wall St. wanted to look at some of the core earnings power of the S&P 500 based on actual earnings ...
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US Index Levels All Challenging 10% Corrections: DJIA, Nasdaq, S&P 500

Posted: January 8, 2016 at 3:49 pm

Analyzing the stock market in 2016 and 2015 is becoming harder and harder. The end game, regardless of how you view the market in general, is that this just isn't ...
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2016 Stock Market Outlook From 14 Top Wall Street Strategists

Posted: December 15, 2015 at 1:05 pm

The bull market seems to be at a crossroads at the end of 2015. Six straight years of gains have been seen, but as 2015 winds down the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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