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Growth Comeback? Nasdaq Surged Last Week Amid Banking Scares
Stocks face a confusing mix of positives and negatives, but the biggest story could be an unexpected surge in the Nasdaq-100. The technology-heavy index rallied 5.8 percent between Friday, March 10, and Friday March 17. In absolute terms, it was the biggest weekly...
Big Caps on the Move: Scanning for Breakouts in the Dow
It's pretty quiet today as stocks drift aimlessly before Labor Day. Dog days of summer? More like the sloth days ... Still, some members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are melting to new highs even as the broader market snoozes in the shade. Here's a quick tool...
Greek of the Week: Theta
This is the third installment of a four-part series about options Greeks on Market Insights concluding Labor Day week. So far, we've looked at delta and gamma. This week, we'll turn to theta. Theta: T is for "time decay." Theta measures how much time value an option...
Starting with Futures: S&P 500 E-minis
Do you love to trade stocks, but are confused by futures? Keep reading. Many clients are initially puzzled, or even scared, by these derivative instruments. The lingo is different. Their hours are weird. The rules seem bizarre, along with their settlements and...
Market Action Summary: 8/27/18
Click here to register for the webinar, which begins at 4:30 p.m. ET. S&P 500 overview Few bearish signals after triangle breakout. Lack of correlations, inter-market warning flags. Sectors bullish as investors rotate into risk-on areas like XLB, EEM. News...
Is the Global Picture Brightening?
Global stocks have been a hot mess all summer, but some recent events may suggest the tide is turning. Over the weekend, for instance, China allowed its currency to appreciate against the U.S. dollar. That's being viewed as a sign Beijing won't deploy yuan devaluation...
Last Week Shows Records Were Made to Be Broken
As the saying goes: Records were made to be broken. Just take the market last week. The S&P 500's decade-long bull run surpassed the lifespan of its previous upward journey in the 1990s. Another record fell on Tuesday, when the Russell 2000 Index hit a new...
Technology & Communication
Fintechs Drive Busiest December for IPO Market in the Last 5 Years
The IPO market enjoyed a late-year comeback as demand for fintech stocks overcame negativity from the failed WeWork deal. At least $2.7 billion of initial public offerings have priced this month, according to ClickIPO. It was the busiest month since September and the...