By Jon D. Markman On June 11, 201903:07 PM Eastern
Stocks started the Tuesday session with a bang, but bears took the wheel midday – swerving the major indexes into the red amid renewed fears that rising trade tensions won’t be balanced out by...
By Jon D. Markman On June 11, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks ripped higher Monday, lifted by relief over the deep-sixed Mexican tariff threat and a reanimation of animal spirits after a morose month of May.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished...
By Jon D. Markman On June 10, 201903:00 PM Eastern
Stocks are on the move higher on Monday, lifted by relief over the White House dropping a threat to hit Mexico with tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, but also somewhat dampened by news of a...
By Tony Sagami On June 10, 201902:40 PM Eastern
John Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard family of funds, was one of the crankiest men I've ever met in the investment business. But he was also a passionate consumer advocate and one of the most...
By Sean Brodrick On June 10, 201911:33 AM Eastern
Many people are using CBD now, for everything from soothing anxiety to managing pain from arthritis. Heck, CBD can even reduce seizures.
Anecdotal evidence shows it helps with a lot of health...
By Jon D. Markman On June 10, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks pushed higher again on Friday after ice-cold employment data for May stiffened investors’ expectations that central bankers will lighten up on interest rates.
Basically, the worse the...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201903:12 PM Eastern
Stocks are in rally mode again Friday, putting the major indexes index on pace for their best week in more than six months, after ice-cold employment data for May stiffened investors’ expectations...
It was a wild May, one that saw your Bitcoin position surge more than 50%. And that’s after a minor correction in this new Bitcoin bull market. There’s still some more downside to go, but that...
By Tony Sagami On June 7, 201908:00 AM Eastern
"EBS, or Everything but Bad Stuff."
— Lynn Turner, chief accountant, Securities and Exchange Commission, on modern-day earnings reports
Wall Street accountants can be some of the most...
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201906:28 AM Eastern
Stocks resumed their upbeat ways Thursday as investors were warmed from head to toe by loving, supportive, smiley-face statements from global central bankers.
The idea that monetary policy can...