Get Ready For The Latest Stock Bubble To Go Pop!
Harry Dent - at Seeking Alpha - Sat Mar 21, 3:11AM CDT
For years we have forecasted bubble after bubble, and many of them have burst right along with our predictions. But the one bubble that just won't seem to burst is the one happening right now. When it finally pops, it won't sound like a balloon -...
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Why Market Seasonality May Be Critical In 2015
Sy Harding - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 5:48PM CDT
With its FOMC statement, the Fed provided the market with what it wanted to hear. It removed the "patience" phrase as expected, but replaced it with a similar assurance that there is no set timetable for rate hikes, that it will continue...
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PowerShares QQQ Trust ETF announces quarterly distribution of $0.2481
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 2:08PM CDT
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Investors Remain Optimistic on Stocks; Trouble Brewing for Tiffany & Co.
at The Street - Fri Mar 20, 1:42PM CDT
The CNBC ‘Fast Money Halftime’ traders say that despite volatility, stock prices are likely to continue rising.
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Market Outlook - The Simple Prophecy
Peter F. Way, CFA - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 1:20PM CDT
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Volatility After Fed Statement Sets Stage for Stock Market Highs
at The Street - Fri Mar 20, 8:40AM CDT
Altered wording in the Fed's statement on interest-rate policy sparked volatility in the stock market, and now the Dow 30, S&P 500 and Nasdaq are set for new highs.
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Fed Funds Not So Easy: Major Implications For Stocks
James A. Kostohryz - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 8:13AM CDT
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Stocks set for opening bounce
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 6:35AM CDT
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Wall Street Breakfast: White House To Unveil Fracking Rules
Wall Street Breakfast - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 5:30AM CDT
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Is This Fed Transparency Or Outright Market Manipulation?
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 1:52AM CDT
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NYT Headline 'Fed Signals It May Increase Interest Rates By Midyear' - Seriously?
Celan Bryant - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 1:44AM CDT
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The Interest Rate On Excess Reserves Is The New Fed Funds Rate
Celan Bryant - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 20, 1:36AM CDT
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Meet The Worst Economic Forecasters Ever - The Fed
Lance Roberts - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 7:59PM CDT
I have been tracking the Federal Reserve's forward-looking projections ever since it began releasing its forecasts. The purpose of tracking these projections was to compare the Fed's forecasts with what eventually became reality. The record is now...
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The National Dividend Vs. GDP
Ironman at Political Calculations - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 5:45PM CDT
After discovering that it is now possible to calculate a consumption-based national dividend as originally proposed by Irving Fisher back in The Nature of Capital and Income back in 1906 (also available as a PDF document ), we thought we'd...
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What To Expect When The Fed Actually Does Raise Rates
Dirk Leach - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 4:28PM CDT
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Use Volatility to Your Benefit but Be Careful of ‘Quadruple Witching’
at The Street - Thu Mar 19, 3:55PM CDT
JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade, says investors can use volatility to their benefit by buying stocks on pullbacks. However, traders should exercise caution on Friday’s quadruple witching expiration.
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Patience Is A Virtue
Carbide Capital Inc. - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 3:19PM CDT
In a high tech world where we demand everything instantaneously, sometimes it's good to just sit back and be patient. The topic of whether the FED would remove the word "patient" and set the stage for an interest rate hike in June or September has...
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Investors Should Stick With Health Care Stocks, eBay Has Downside
at The Street - Thu Mar 19, 1:56PM CDT
The CNBC ‘Fast Money Halftime’ trading panel agrees that health care stocks still have an upside, while an analyst explains his decision to downgrade eBay.
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The Roller Coaster Ride Of The Nasdaq: Big Drop Ahead?
Harry Dent - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 9:01AM CDT
Most of the major U.S. stock indices hit all-time highs recently. The Dow reached 18,288.63, the S&P 2117.39 - both of them records. But there's one that didn't quite break its high from 15 years ago… the Nasdaq. This leads us to one of...
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Daily State Of The Markets: Can You Say, Dovish?
David Moenning - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 8:08AM CDT
Obviously, the key to yesterday's joyride to the upside, which saw the S&P 500 surge nearly 46 points (or 2.22%) in about an hour and both the smallcap and midcap indices vault to new all-time highs, was the Fed statement. Obviously, traders...
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