by JD Lasinger | May 11, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review Global stocks fundamentally consolidated their positions last Friday after recording historic highs during the earlier part of the week. A major catalyst was generated when Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), informed the...
by JD Lasinger | May 4, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review Last Friday produced a sequence of events that confused investors by igniting substantial levels of volatility. The US Department of Labor published its vitally important Non-Farm Payroll figure which surprised the markets by demonstrating that 288,000...
by JD Lasinger | Apr 27, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review Investor confidence took a severe hit last Friday following the release of a spate of disappointing corporate earnings reports by a number of prominent US major conglomerates which missed analysts’ expectations. The market mood was soured even further...
by JD Lasinger | Apr 23, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review After experiencing a particularly volatile week, global equities produced a mixed reaction last Thursday. For example, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a minor loss, the S&P 500 rose to register its largest weekly gain since the...
by JD Lasinger | Apr 14, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review The global markets continued to fall last Friday amid concerns that many high-flying momentum stocks could now be heavily overbought. As investors have begun to adopt an increasingly risk aversive stance, many revered economists are currently evaluating...
by JD Lasinger | Apr 8, 2014 | Market News
Week in Review Global stocks initially surged higher following the publication of a strong US labor report for March. However, investors subsequently dismissed this encouraging data by instigating a major sell-off in momentum stocks, such as TripAdvisor and Netflix....