
Stock market news, July 2, 2014: Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones today (Wednesday) were able to just barely finish with fresh record highs. The Nasdaq was mostly flat but finished slightly down.
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -
Stock market news, July 2, 2014: Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones today (Wednesday) were able to just barely finish with fresh record highs. The Nasdaq was mostly flat but finished slightly down.
Here's the scorecard from today's trading session, and the top stock market news recap...
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -
Stock market news, July 2, 2014: Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones today (Wednesday) were able to just barely finish with fresh record highs. The Nasdaq was mostly flat but finished slightly down.
Here's the scorecard from today's trading session, and the top stock market news recap...
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -
Wall Street news today, July 1, 2014: U.S. stock markets were flat on Monday, but that represented good news as the second quarter came to a close. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished up for a sixth consecutive quarter, and the S&P 500 posted its best second-quarter gain since 2009.
Here’s the Wall Street news that will be moving markets today:
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -
The stock market today (Wednesday) rose despite news that the U.S. economy slumped more than expected in the first quarter. Revised GDP figures for Q1 revealed the worst non-recession performance in four decades, with a 2.9% slip. The decline is also the sharpest downturn in five years, and is a significant revision from the 1% decline tallied in April.
And here are the top stories that affected the stock market today:
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
Anyone who did not "sell in May and go away" has likely enjoyed stock gains - especially in Nasdaq stocks.
But, it's the Nasdaq Composite sporting the most intense rebound after two months in the red. The Nasdaq fell 4.2% from January to mid-April, but is up nearly 6% since then.
Following are 10 stocks that helped propel the Nasdaq higher recently.
By Shah Gilani, Capital Wave Strategist, Money Morning • @WallStreet_II -
From the Editor: Losing access to your money is frightening, no matter how long the powerless state lasts. But when investors in more than 3,200 public companies lost contact with their Nasdaq-listed shares Thursday, we caught a glimpse of something far more troubling. So here’s Shah with what this all means, for you and for “our once shining city on the hill.”
If Goldman Sachs can lose $100 million in a matter of minutes on account of its computers misfiring, is that a sign of things to come? Or is it proof we’re already there?
You heard about last week’s shutdown, but do you know what it means?
On Tuesday morning, Goldman Sachs let its computers run; too bad for Goldman they got out of the corral and ran wild.
Within 17 minutes after the markets opened, the damage was done. By some estimates, Goldman could lose up to $100 million.
The final body count – in terms of whether it will affect one or five employees’ year-end bonuses at the trading behemoth – depends on whether Goldman will be held responsible for its errant trades, or how many of them will be canceled, or whether they might have to make other traders whole for the black hole they dug for them.
It could have been a fat finger, or it could have been a ghost in the machine, or it could have been a window into the reality of high-frequency game theory and its application.
I say it was the latter.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
On Thursday, Nasdaq trading was halted for three hours due to what officials described as a “technical glitch.” But this so-called "glitch" is only a symptom of a far more troubling problem with the markets...
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