The DJIA Index added 33 points Friday to end a four-day losing streak. The cause? Biotech and healthcare stocks rebounded to pull markets upward as investors search for value after this week's sell-offs.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen gave a speech on monetary policy in San Francisco 15 minutes before the closing bell. Yellen indicated that rate increases this year are likely, but the pace will be gradual.
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Last week on our roundup of the 2015 top stocks to invest in, we highlighted biotech stocks for their explosive growth in 2015 and their continued potential.
And while biotech stocks got creamed this past week. They're still among the best investments for 2015.
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Most investors check on the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of every trading day, if not more frequently.
Over its 119-year history, the DJIA has become synonymous with the markets. But while investors big and small rely on the Dow Jones to measure how well or how poorly stocks are doing, how much do most people really know about it?
Check out these five key facts that show how the Dow came to be what it is now...
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Best Oil Stocks to Buy Now: For the past three months, oil prices have hovered at their lowest levels since the financial crisis.
But they're are headed higher this year – and there are still plenty of profitable gems in the oil sector.
Here's a roundup of the best oil stocks to buy now as the market stabilizes throughout the year...
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The current price of silver is very volatile, but it is currently on the upswing.
At $17.145 an ounce – the current price of silver as of 8:45 a.m. EDT – the white metal is up 9.3% on the year and 3.5% on the month. But it is volatile.
Here's what to make of the current price of silver...
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Wall Street pundits are claiming we are on the precipice of a biotech bubble because biotechnology stocks have been soaring. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index has climbed 44% in the last year. The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 have climbed just 9% and 11% in the same time.
But it's the last week that has traders panicked about "bubble" territory.
From March 20 through March 26, the Nasdaq biotech index dipped 7%. The S&P biotech index dropped almost 11%.
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At Money Morning, we're big proponents of dividend reinvestment. It's a strategy that will help you amass tremendous wealth over time.
Reinvesting dividends is the practice of buying additional shares of a stock using the dividends themselves to pay for your purchase. It results in long-term compounding, and that's key to building a fortune.
Here's a look at just how valuable dividend reinvestment is to your portfolio...
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The price of gold – and silver – rallied Thursday as investors piled into "risk off" trades.
They're both up on the day and the week, where the Dow has been slipping for four sessions.
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Good morning! Stock futures today (Friday, March 27) forecasted a 10-point retreat from yesterday's close. On Thursday, The DJIA managed to bounce back from early triple-digit losses but still closed down 39 points, notching its fourth consecutive drop.
This morning, it's all about fourth-quarter GDP. The U.S. Commerce Department will release its final estimate on GDP for the last quarter of 2014. Economists expect the final level to tick up to 2.4% growth over the quarter.
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The potential of solar power has been touted for years, yet it has always come with major limitations. The costs of producing solar power have outweighed the benefits for many power companies.
But that's changing. Solar power has reached a tipping point, and it's creating a massive profit opportunity for one solar ETF.
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