He found that drugs were approved 70% of the time, but that this only resulted in a gradual increase in the stocks of their makers.
This, combined with a surprise increase in American gasoline stocks and news that Russian bailiffs would allow Yukos access to its bank accounts to pay workers, helped bring the oil price down by around a dollar.
Looking at the change in short-interest, and stock returns, from July 29 to August 15, the authors initially found that short interest did increase for most stocks in their sample, and that returns were negative for more than three-quarters of them.
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Short-sellers would only be able to sell on a legitimate increase and, in the case of financial stocks, only after a five cent or more increase.
This means forward supply partners (from distribution through to end customers) likely went into a panic ordering mode today to increase inventory and put in safety stocks in case some parts go on allocation.
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We might indeed explain the historical outperformance of stocks by an increase in the profit share of national income.
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In the tables below, I found stocks that were up for the year, despite an increase in the amount of short interest, AND more puts bought to open than calls.
Both of those companies saw their stocks increase by about 70% in 2011.
The script for the huddle noted that, while investor sentiment was negative on Company A, the analyst covering the stock expected that interest in stocks in that industry would increase before an upcoming industry conference.
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Further, the fund tends to remain in mining stocks even if the sector as a whole turns lower, although it might increase its cash position some in order to take advantage of shares that might become cheap.
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Despite the possible tax increase, investors may want to revisit investing in dividend paying stocks.
An increase in taxes on dividends does not make dividend-paying stocks toxic or investments to shun.
As in stocks, ETF share splits do nothing to directly increase the value of your investment.
Mining stocks made strong gains, responding favorably to an increase in commodity prices on Friday following the U.S. jobs report.
In the fall of 2005, Hurricane Katrica also caused a sharp drop in gasoline stocks, leading to an atypical fall price increase.
The current decline and increase in bearish sentiment with the supercommittee failure suggests that investors may be dumping their stocks now.
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Japanese and Australian shares fell modestly Thursday, while Hong Kong stocks ended flat after a choppy trading session as an unexpected increase in China's inflation rate and continued Greek debt doubts subdued investor sentiment.
The relationship between money supply and financial assets is nonlinear and changes over time, but when tallying up pros and cons for the current environment, the recent increase of more than 8 percent in money supply growth provides a tailwind for commodities and stocks.
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If corporate tax rates fall, it will immediately increase corporate after-tax profits in the U.S., and this should make stocks more attractive to all investors.
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With the enormous increase in the taxation of dividends, high net worth investors may be tempted to abandon dividend-paying stocks entirely.
The number of stocks making new lows dropped to a low level in December and January but started to increase as the market started to decline again in February.
Stocks could rise or fall, depending on the relative growth rate of profits compared to the increase in interest rates.
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Despite a rise in American inventories, global stocks do not appear to have grown much, suggesting that buoyant developing economies absorbed most of the increase in supply.
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