During the Nineties' go-go stock market a privately held tech company like SAS seemed an anachronism and downright odd.
This has given the U.S. stock market a boost early this week.
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U.S. securities regulators are expected to propose rules aimed at making the modern electronic stock market a little less prone to computer glitches.
That admonition from Bernanke deflated the U.S. stock market a bit, which in turn put some further downside pressure on crude oil and the U.S. stock market.
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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.
However, there is a very big gap between a surging stock market and a moribund U.S. economy.
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.
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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%.
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While news of a deal might boost the stock market for a few days or even a week, longer term nothing has changed.
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It would be like compairing a Mechanic to summerize the stock market as a person who has NEVER worked on cars, to do the reports.
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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.
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It is my genuine belief that any announcement of QE3 this month will not have more than a very limited effect upon the stock market beyond a week-long rally.
True, the U.S. got a jolt in late October when a sharp fall in the Hong Kong stock market sparked a big plunge in the Dow Jones index.
The slightest misstep can turn a stock market darling into a company struggling for its very existence.
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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.
Quite a few stocks acted well on Tuesday as the stock market had a big day.
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This is a much more plausible reason as to why the stock market is a leading indicator for the economy, as opposed to some form of investor omniscience.
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.
As part of a bond investing strategy one should seek to switch out of a high allocation of bonds and into stocks when the stock market reaches a capitulation phase.
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It has a lot to do with the recent performance of the stock market, a pretty good measure of sentiment as well as one of the better leading indicators of real economic activity.
In a famous analogy, the economist John Maynard Keynes once likened the stock market to a beauty contest in which the object is to vote not for the prettiest face but for the face that the majority of voters will consider the prettiest.
By now, everyone and their mother know that the U.S. stock market is a losing bet.
In the world of the stock market, a Cadillac is now cheaper than a compact-size Chevy.
As you are no doubt aware, the stock market took a big tumble on the Libya news.
At that time, the most valuable company on the U.S. stock market was a retail innovator, Walmart.
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For some investors, the stock market has a permanent black cloud over it.
Late in the trading session, the stock market staged a rebound, but that failed to erase the currency's losses.
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