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A handful of big companies announced strong results in the last week, but wider problems are tarnishing the story. Feeble semiconductor demand, doubts about the industrial sector and lackluster guidance emerged as recurring themes as we progress through the busiest...
A perfect storm of negatives is handing the Nasdaq-100 its worst month since the financial crisis. The technology-heavy index lost 11 percent of its value between the end of September and yesterday's close. Depending on where this October ends, it'll compare with...
Clients are rushing back to exchange-traded funds this month as volatility mounts. Five of the 10 most heavily traded symbols with TradeStation in October are ETFs. That marks a sharp swing from September, when calm market conditions pushed attention toward...
Stocks rebounded last week as the bulls regained their footing at a key level. The S&P 500 rose 1.2 percent between Friday, September 7, and Friday, September 14. It was the biggest weekly gain in two months, with more than two-thirds of the companies in the index...
This year has seen plenty of gains in technology, but nothing compares with the monster rally in a once-forgotten chip stock. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has already doubled in the third quarter and has appreciated 190 percent since January. That places it ahead of...
August brought upsets to TradeStation's rankings as clients shifted attention to big technology companies. Major exchange-traded funds lost interest. Apple (AAPL), which didn't even make the Top 10 in June or July, was the busiest stock at TradeStation last month. The...
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...
It was the best of times and the worst of times. The saying was seldom truer than the past week's earnings reports. Starting with the bad news first, there's one word everyone needs know: Facebook (FB). The social-media giant slammed into a wall of rising costs and...
It could have been worse. That's the good news for investors sifting through earnings this week. Just look at Facebook (FB). The social media giant got slammed by reports of data breeches last month, but it seemed to have little impact on first-quarter results last...