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Stock Market Trends: S&P 500 Loses July's Gain in One Day

By , Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning -

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Stock market trends today, August 1, 2014: U.S. markets plummeted Thursday in a broad decline. The DJIA shed 317 points in a heavy sell-off. The S&P 500 fell below its 50-day moving average, erasing all of July's gains as concerns across global markets hammered stocks. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) jumped more than 27% to an intraday high of 17.11, its highest level since April.

This morning (Friday), the dollar hit a 10-month high against other global currencies while stocks around the world slumped. However, the U.S. unemployment rate rose to 6.2% on news that the economy gained only 209,000 jobs - falling under economist estimates of 230,000 new jobs during July and an unemployment rate of 6.0%.

Here’s a roundup of the top stories affecting stock market news today, including stories from TSLA, GoPro, Whole Foods, the latest in the bond defaults, and more…

Profit Alert: ArthroCare (Nasdaq: ARTC) Stock Outshines Broad Market, Climbing 8%

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

While the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 326 points today, U.S. medical device maker ArthroCare Corp. (Nasdaq: ARTC) handed investors an 8.24% gain...

That's because British medical technology company Smith & Nephew PLC will buy ArthroCare in a $1.7 billion all-cash deal, a move aimed at tackling the growing sports medicine industry.

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Market News: Dow Jones Industrial Average Falls for Fifth Straight Session

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Stock Market News Today, Jan. 27: U.S. stocks are compounding last week's selloff, with all three major indices dropping into the red as home sales fell 7% in December.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 41.23 points, or 0.3%, to 15,837.75; the S&P 500 fell 0.5%, or 8.73 points, to 1,781.56; and the Nasdaq fell 1.1%, or 44.56 points, to 4,083.61.

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Stock Market News Today: Corelogic (NYSE: CLGX) Soars, NQ Mobile (NYSE: NQ) Gets Slashed

By , Money Morning -

In the stock market today, equities are up modestly in the wake of positive data on manufacturing in China, which reached a seven-month high in October, pointing to a stronger economy there and globally.

The S&P 500 is down about 0.2% at 1,749 points, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up to 15,485 points. The Nasdaq Composite Index is up 0.5% at 3,926.

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The Nobel Prize for Market Timing Goes to… Cliff?

By , Editor, Permanent Wealth Investor -

According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), the best - and perhaps only - way to outperform the market over time is simple:
First, claim that beating the market over time is virtually impossible. Then, take home $1.2 million for "proving" it.
That was Professor Eugene Fama's approach, anyway, after co-winning the Nobel Prize in economics.
Don't get me wrong. As a professional investor and portfolio manager, I believe Professor Fama's EMH has many valid ideas. But fundamentally, people like us (and Buffett, and Soros, and Rogers, and Lynch, and Einhorn, and Paulson, and Icahn, and Ackman) never swallow EMH whole.
Ironically, neither does Clifford Asness.
Why would one of Fama's brightest students decide to ditch EMH, and pick stocks and time the market instead?

Proving EMH "right" may be worth millions (to Fama). But proving it "wrong" is worth billions..

Why Stocks Fall in September

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

Given that two of the most dramatic and painful stock crashes happened in October, it's the one month that most investors dread. But if you look at the record, it's not the month with the worst average returns. You don't want to wait to find out which month really haunts Wall Street...
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Shah Gilani on What's Really Moving the Stock Market Today

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Money MorningCapital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani appeared on FOX Business' "Varney & Co."to talk with host Stuart Varney about the ill winds blowing across Wall Street and the country at large.

The Dow is down nearly 100 points on the day, rhetoric and violence are ratcheting up in Syria, and we've heard both parties' warning shots over the looming October debt ceiling vote.

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Stock Market News Today Why We Predicted This 10% Gainer Would Soar

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Stock market news today focuses on winners and losers in the tech and consumer spaces, as well as how the S&P 500 will come off of its largest weekly decline since June.

Last week was tough for stocks since this year has been filled with rallies. Stocks fell as investors tried to understand the timing of the Fed's tapering of its bond-buying program.

Surprisingly, the market still seems very sensitive to any news on the Fed cutbacks.

This week, the market may continue to react to any news from the Fed, although other economic indicators are likely to be in the foreground of investors' minds.

Stock market news today starts with Japan, which we learned saw gross domestic product rise 2.6% at an annualized pace from April to June - well short of the 3.6% growth economists expected. The Nikkei was down more than 5% last week and is down another roughly 1% this morning.

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Deal Making is About to Get White Hot

By , Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW -

Not only is the market rally on, but trigger-happy bankers and private equity wheeler-dealers are about to send it even higher.
The reason is simple: There are trillions of dollars of cash just sitting on the sidelines looking for a deal.
That means deal action - of all kinds - is about to get white hot.
In fact, the combination of positive capital flows and the pursuit of greater economies of scale has us at the beginnings of a multi-year deal-driven bull market.
Here's where we are and where we're going next.

Stock Market Today: Will These Fear Factors Kill the Rally?

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The major headlines in the stock market today include: Stocks try to hold on to a third straight week of gains, manufacturing slumps to three-year lows, jobless claims remain depressing, and these two stocks deserve a closer look.

  • Stocks try to rally- It has been over a week since QE3 was announced and the markets recently have been sluggish. After a strong rally leading up to the announcement of QE3, stocks cooled off this week amid the continuing global uncertainty. Today's trading session opened with all three major indexes rising higher as they try to start September with three straight weeks of gains. If the markets hold on to their early gains it will be a solid start to the month. The bullish trend is threatened though as anxieties increase over the looming fiscal cliff and the ongoing trend of lousy economic data.

  • Jobless claims troubling again- The labor market and unemployment are the main reasons the U.S. Federal Reserve cited in their decision to implement QE3. Yesterday's (Thursday) initial jobless claims back up that move but economists will want to see improved numbers in the near future if QE3 is ever going to be considered successful for the economy. Last week's jobless claims fell to 382,000 from the previous week's 385,000 but still missed economists' projections for initial claims around 375,000. Another troubling sign is that the four-week average which is considered a less volatile figure rose by 2,000 to 377,750, the highest level since June. "Businesses clearly remain reluctant to aggressively boost their workforces amid the current risks associated with the soft economy and significant uncertainty surrounding fiscal policy next year," Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors told MarketWatch.

  • Markit shows manufacturing weakest in 3 years - Manufacturing measured by the Markit Purchasing Managers Index remained at 51.5 in September. That was also the average for the third quarter and well below the 54.2 measure for last quarter. A reading above 50 indicates expansion but this number was not encouraging as it was the lowest quarterly average since the third quarter of 2009. "I don't think the economy is going anywhere fast. The jobs market is still very difficult and manufacturing, which was a key pillar of the recovery is beginning to crack," Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester Pennsylvania told Reuters.
In the stock market, these two companies have started the day off strong:

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