Text size Shares in commercial airline Boeing shares were up 5% Monday afternoon, adding 57 points to the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 330 points gain, making it the largest single participant in the Dow index. The reason for this is the Boeing stock market (ticker: BA) is obviously Covid-related. The …
Read More »Dow 250 points up midday, Nasdaq under pressure as investors expand rotation in cyclical stocks
Stock market benchmarks were mostly higher on Monday as investors checked signs that a long-awaited rotation on Wall Street could be extended into more growth-sensitive equities, at the expense of their high-growth counterparts. Investors also focused on President Donald Trump’s weekend of signing executive orders aimed at extending some elements …
Read More »Gold, Apple and the Stock Market are rising. Negative real rates may be why.
Text size Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images The Nasdaq Composite hit 11,000 this past week – and all anyone wants to talk about is negative real rates. You see, it’s not good enough for the Nasdaq to win 2.5% for the week – and in the process break a …
Read More »Why Apple’s Stock Division Won’t Help The Dow
Text size Mladen Antonov / AFP via Getty Images Apple’s 4-for-1 stock split will greatly diminish its influence on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, where the iPhone maker now has the highest weight and the biggest positive influence this year. Apple (ticker: AAPL), whose shares ended Thursday at $ 384.76, …
Read More »Two risks of the stock market are hidden in Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet.
Bulls in the stock market are giddy. What is there no to be happy: the stock market mostly goes up, and making money seems easy. While newly minted investors focus on accumulating small, speculative stocks, institutions hide in large-cap tech stocks. For prudent investors, now is the time to understand …
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