Author: super@dmin
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Market Extra: Junk bonds — no longer 2018’s darling — flip to red as the corporate debt climate deteriorates
Amid a chorus of concerns over corporate debt, a key index for the high-yield bond market has turned negative this year, losing its status as one of the last corners of Wall Street to carry positive returns in 2018. Resilient to the Federal Reserve’s rate hikes and stock market turmoil, high-yield debt finally succumbed to…
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Currencies: Dollar extends losses after drop in home builder index
Brexit worries and global growth concerns remain in focus.
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The Fed: Markets think Powell ‘blinked’ in Dallas
Financial markets seemed to have reached a conclusion that Jerome Powell was dovish.
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Outside the Box: The poster child of bull-market excess just dimmed the prospects of the broader stock market
The awesome decline in Nvidia’s stock shatters the illusion that the market can still rally.
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Outside the Box: A rally in the U.S. stock market is becoming less likely, according to Elliott Wave theory
The path of least resistance for stocks is a decline, possibly to as low as 2,100 points in the S&P 500.
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CryptoWatch: Bitcoin skid continues, hits 13-month low
Bitcoin prices are continuing to move lower on Monday as the downbeat sentiment in the digital asset community persists. Coming off a week that saw the world’s largest digital currency plummet through $6,000, bitcoin prices have shed another 5% on Monday, with a single bitcoin BTCUSD, -8.21% last fetching $5,261.42, down 5.6% since Sunday at 5…
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Need to Know: Market timers are on the sidelines, which means you might want to jump in
Bear-market calls are rampant these days. Paul Tudor Jones says “really scary moments” are on the way. Jim Cramer warns there’s nowhere to hide in this “very serious correction.” Steve Cohen predicts that the bull is about to die a painful death. Get the idea? Yeah, pretty sure you do. So perhaps it is time…
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NerdWallet: These people have been buying up stocks faster than anyone since 1989
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. Can you guess who’s been loading up on stocks at a faster pace than anyone during the past 30 years? It’s not Wall Street titans and kajillionaires on the Forbes richest lists. It’s mid- to lower-income households, particularly those pulling in less than $42,000 a year. In…
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Asia Markets: Asian markets quiet as U.S.-China trade tensions linger
Asian stock markets were subdued in early trading Monday, as investors remained cautious of tensions between the U.S. and China after a pan-Pacific summit ended without consensus on trade issues. Japan’s Nikkei NIK, +0.57% rose 0.3% as the yen USDJPY, -0.01% bounced off some of its weakest levels of November versus the dollar.…
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Mark Hulbert: Doing this one thing could make you a better investor — and it’s free
The best retirement financial advice you can get might be to get more sleep. That is the provocative implication of recent research that examined investors’ financial risk-taking following periods when their sleep was disrupted. I concede that advice to get more sleep is hardly new, since we’ve been hearing that most of our lives —…