Too often I have seen investors sell a stock that is just undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bull market or buy a stock that is undergoing a secondary reaction in a primary bear market.
To muster that public support, the White House, Treasury Secretary, and Fed Chairman Bernanke constantly bombarded the nation with speeches, and testimony before Congress, about how terrible things were, with the economy teetering on the brink of a depression, and the stock market in a serious bear market since its 2007 top.
FORBES: Calmer Rhetoric In Washington The Biggest Boost For Markets
As the housing market stalls, the financial system will begin to seize up, resulting in a stock market collapse and a deeper recession than in 2008.
While GDP can be helpful, there can be a disconnect between real GDP growth and actual equity market performance, where a lackluster stock market can exist in a country whose GDP regularly exceeds 6.5-7%.
FORBES: 19 Reasons Why Emerging Markets Belong In Your Portfolio
The slightest misstep can turn a stock market darling into a company struggling for its very existence.
FORBES: A Single Misstep With Symbian Eviscerated Nokia - Will Samsung Suffer A Similar Fate?
Back in the UK, PPI was a stock market favourite and a Conservative Party donor, and Nadir was the toast of the City.
Recall that the Smoot-Hawley trade restrictions of 1930 turned a stock market panic into a multi-year Great Depression, broken only by World War II.
However, some analysts have warned that a stock market bubble is being created and last week former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the Chinese stock market could undergo a dramatic correction.
However, there is a very big gap between a surging stock market and a moribund U.S. economy.
However, understanding why anybody trading stocks cares about the U.S. Balance of Trade from a stock market perspective might be a different story.
Then a stock market tumble in Shanghai precipitated a worldwide selloff of risky assets.
In a stock market update, Superglass said a second line was scheduled to be upgraded in the spring.
Most of us would define recovery as GDP growth, rising employment, higher incomes, and a stock market going up 10% a year.
Seen by many as a stock market historian, Sam Stovall has a thing for exchange-traded funds.
FORBES: Best Ideas 2013: Buy Dividend Stocks And Sell The Fracking Boom, Sam Stovall Says
Countless scholars have studied exactly how the federal government managed to turn a stock market crash and cyclical recession into a fifteen year nightmare.
Bush has received low marks on the economy lately, despite low unemployment, low inflation, high corporate profits and a stock market that's close to a record high.
Both prove that it is a market of stocks and not a stock market.
FORBES: Dell and Clearwire, Two of a Kind, With Inside Takeovers at Half What They Are Worth
And nor will a stock market allow you to claim reserves without such a study.
FORBES: But Every Generation Does Indeed Exhaust Its Mineral Reserves
Over the past five years Sallie stock has doubled in a flat stock market.
The difference between then and now is that rising health care costs, once masked by a buoyant stock market, have become a matter of national urgency.
When tapping savings to pay medical bills, advisers say, top priorities should be avoiding a bigger tax bite and not selling off a stock portfolio in a down market.
After being down several days in a row, the stock market got a lift Friday from European rumors that the ECB is considering setting yield-band targets in a new bond-buying program to help contain borrowing costs for Greece, Spain, and Italy, and the release of a letter Fed Chairman Bernanke had sent out a few days earlier.
FORBES: Troubling Times Ahead As Euro Politicos Finally Finish Vacations
In a bear market the convert holds up better than the common stock, but in a bull market it will not rise dollar for dollar with the stock.
European stock and derivatives exchanges saw themselves in competition with each other, as did their host cities and countries: finance was deemed a growth industry, and slogans abounded as governments saw a local stock or futures market as a way to create high-paying jobs and ample tax revenues.
In the longer term, the quantitative-easing policy in the U.S. and the bond-buying in Europe could lead to a depreciation of both the dollar and the euro, which would make the stock market a riskier investment compared with commodities, analysts believe.
He favours a partial stock market flotation of KBR as a way for its parent to cut debt and return to financial health.
While news of a deal might boost the stock market for a few days or even a week, longer term nothing has changed.
FORBES: U.S. Stocks Overpriced, No Matter What Happens With Fiscal Cliff Deal
应用推荐