With the Nasdaq composite retaking its 50-day moving average Friday and the Dow Jones and S&P 500 index rebounding bullishly, more and more top stocks are breaking out or setting up near buy points. Nvidia (NVDA), Booking Holdings (BKNG), Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTSH), Worldpay (WP), Pegasystems (PEGA) and LGI Homes (LGIH) are growth stocks just […]
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Jim Cramer’s 7 Deadly Sins That Can Kill Your Stocks
These “Seven Deadly Sins” can kill your portfolio in the current market conditions, Jim Cramer said Saturday ias part of at TheStreet’s Boot Camp for Investors in New York. “You must avoid [these things] if you’re going to pick the right stocks,” the expert said, according to his prepared remarks. Here’s a rundown of seven […]
Buffett’s Take On Stocks, Bonds and Crypto
Today, at the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, Warren Buffett and his partner, Charlie Munger, shared their continuing faith in the U.S. stock market, as well as reasons for pessimism on other assets such as crypto-currencies, bonds and gold. They discussed how their investment strategy has evolved. They are now happy owning more capital intensive […]
Has The All-Clear Signal Been Given For Stocks?
Well, we had some more discomfort to deal with this week, but that statement probably has more validity today than it did last Friday. With that, let’s review the events and conditions of the past two weeks, that build the case for that all-clear signal. As of last Friday, more than half of first quarter […]
European stocks close higher as market finds as euro slumps after U.S. jobs report
European stocks finished firmly higher on Friday, rallying in afternoon trade after a solid U.S. jobs report send the dollar soaring against the euro. An upbeat view on trade talks between the U.S. and China were seen as cooling tensions that have recently hurt markets world-wide, also helping lift stocks into the weekend. How markets […]
Dow climbs 332 points as Apple and jobs report lift stocks
Apple and a solid jobs report lifted stocks on Friday. The Dow gained 332 points, and all but one of the 30 companies in the index finished higher. The Nasdaq climbed 1.7%, and the S&P 500 moved ahead 1.3%. Stocks finished mixed for the week. Apple rose 4% to an all-time high after Warren Buffett […]
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought a stunning 75 million Apple shares in first quarter
Wall Street may have had doubts about Apple before the company reported its most recent quarterly earnings, but one of the tech company’s biggest shareholders — Warren Buffett — didn’t. In the first quarter, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought an astounding 75 million shares of Apple. That adds to the 165.3 million shares Berkshire already owned […]
Stocks Jump, With Buffett Helping Apple to New Highs
U.S. stocks made up for a shaky week with a strong finish Friday as Apple led a rally in technology companies. The tech giant hit an all-time high after Warren Buffett said he’d made another big investment. Stocks got off to a mixed start after trade talks between the U.S. and China ended with few […]
European stocks close lower as euro zone inflation slips; US starts trade talks with China
The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed provisionally down 0.75 percent with every sector and major bourse trading in negative territory. Shares of Logitech jumped 6.5 percent, and led the gains across Europe, after announcing that there could be an increase in its gross margin targets. BPost fell 13 percent following an announcement that its full-year results […]
European stocks take cues from opening drop in U.S. and end near session lows
European stocks on Thursday closed near the lows of the day, with selling accelerating in the afternoon as U.S. stocks slumped at the start of their regular trading session, extending a downturn begun following the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday policy update on inflation and economic health. Investors were also sifting through a clutch of corporate earnings […]
Dow Rises Slightly but S&P 500 and Nasdaq Finish Lower After Volatile Session
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now Tesla Inc. shares fell 5.5% following CEO Elon Musk’s bizarre conference call following the release of the electric carmaker’s first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose slightly after four straight days of losses. At one point Thursday, the Nasdaq traded below […]
Technology gains help US stock markets cancel out early losses from health sector
NEW YORK — Modest gains for technology companies have helped U.S. stocks recover almost all of an early loss Thursday. Major indexes are little changed as banks fall along with interest rates and weak first-quarter results hit several health care companies. Tesla is skidding after the electric car maker posted another big loss, and Wall […]