As I said in March 2007, you cannot have a bull market for stocks with a bear market in financials.
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Brokerage firms could provide a market for stocks after they had become public, brokering the trades of investors and trading for their own accounts.
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And if you are in the market for stocks with decent yields, take a look at some of the blue-chip names knocked down in the panic.
Investors seeking to make the trading bet that the bull market for stocks continues can do so investing in the iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average Index Fund ( IYT) .
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Once the up trend connecting the lows since March 2009 broke, I stated that we were in a new bear market ( See Welcome To The New Bear Market For Stocks).
That is, when the futures markets get out of synch with the cash market for stocks trading on stock exchanges, the computers instantly spot the difference and pounce, buying one and selling the other for a few minutes, which brings them back into synch.
Shares of Intimate Brands have held up comparatively well in a bad market for retail stocks.
After a successful public offering in March on Milan's Nuovo Mercato, a stock market for growth stocks with high potential, e.
The market for Web stocks is once again bubbling, but a new self-proclaimed DIY fund disrupter is on the scene, Motif Investing of San Mateo, Calif.
In the coming months a few high-profile offerings--including United Parcel Service, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and World Wrestling Federation Entertainment--might juice up the market for nontech stocks.
Last year, the high-flying debuts of companies like E-Commerce China Dangdang and Youku.com on U.S. exchanges were a signal of how hot the market for Chinese stocks had become.
Despite the fact that many stocks have already tripled or quadrupled off their lows, I believe that we are still in just the fifth or sixth inning of the current bull market for these stocks.
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Consumer staple analyst Wendy Nicholson at Citi did some research and noticed that for the ten years leading up to 2000 beverage stocks had outperformed the broader market in Q4, while in the last ten years that pattern has reversed, and beverage stocks underperformed the market for seven of the ten.
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Pennies are perfectly reasonable for some issuers, especially large market cap stocks, but not so reasonable for others.
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There is a belief among many investors that excess returns can be earned in the market by owning stocks for only 6 months out of the year and sitting the rest of the time in interest-bearing Treasury securities.
This may be a sign that with a stronger dollar, the tides may be shifting for defensive stocks that depend on emerging market sales for growth.
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Investors were happy to pay price-earnings ratios of 20 or 30 for the market, and more than 100 for some technology stocks.
Les soon realized there might be a market for steep discounts on trading stocks.
How can you make money in the market if stocks sit idle for the balance of the year?
Brazil's market for so-called growth stocks, the novomercado, does not allow such non-voting shares and sets high standards for corporate governance.
Laugh all you want at the crazy market caps for e-commerce stocks.
ConnectOne, which is up 12.5% from its IPO price, is part of another trend in the IPO market: an appetite for financial stocks.
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Because the market was so starved for growth stocks in an environment where most sectors of technology suck, I anticipated a huge play in biotechnology.
Analysts say that Zapata's sudden fascination with the Internet at the beginning of the year was influenced by the valuations of Web portals like Yahoo and Excite and that Zapata lost its taste for the market when the stocks dipped in the summer.
That may not be particularly rough for a stock up more than 44% over the last 12 months, but it is an indicator of the high expectations the market has for housing-related stocks after a big 2012, and the potential pain when those expectations are not met.
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He then values the stocks at more than twice their market value and gives the fund a credit for stocks it plans to purchase in the future.
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These are long term (year and out) holds for investors looking for highly liquid emerging market stocks listed on the NYSE.
The assumption here is that a healthy market for housing is necessary for an economic rebound that will redound to stocks.
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