And right now the amazing improvements for most stocks compared with 2009 are masking the fact that things are just less bad.
Now I think we will need to map out the 200day for most stocks as this can be a magnet for most of them.
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So how did the ultimate arbiter, the Street, vote this week regarding the major search players (recognizing it was major rally mode for most stocks)?
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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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The team is finding India, Brazil and Indonesia to be the most fertile spots for stocks, and most of the picks are in the discretionary consumer spending, financial services and manufacturing sectors.
As I had hoped last week, earnings last week were enough to push stocks higher for most of the week, though stocks turned lower on Friday.
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One result of searching for the most undervalued stocks: The fund owns an outsize share of acquisition targets.
Essentially leveraged bond funds that own mortgage-backed securities, the Agency MREITs have been the among the few financial stocks to deliver positive total returns in the last 18 months since credit concerns resurfaced for most bank and financial stocks.
My vote for the most unjustly maligned financial sector stocks goes to the bond insurers, which guarantee principal repayment and interest for most municipal bonds.
Better yet, do what I think is the wiser course for most people: Buy stocks or bonds directly.
The sad truth: Even though the 1990s was a great decade for speculative stocks, most new issues did not keep up with the market.
The rare earth stocks became the focus for many investors beginning late last year, although most of these stocks had been on a tear for some time.
That earnings data could be the most important catalyst for stocks this month, as investors weigh whether their outlooks for stocks are on the money.
Mackerel is one of the most valuable stocks for Scottish fishermen.
The year 2011 was one of the most volatile ever for stocks, with ups and downs nearly as severe as during the financial crisis of three years ago.
As discussed in late January, the seasonal pattern is for stocks to correct for most of January before starting to turn higher in the first week of March.
Believe it or not, the unexciting, less volatile stocks, for the most part, outperform over long term the more exciting but highly volatile shares, such as the growth plays favored by Wall Street.
Because the market was so starved for growth stocks in an environment where most sectors of technology suck, I anticipated a huge play in biotechnology.
The markets opened higher, despite signs of weakness in the US economy from the jobs and retail sector, but stocks were trading flat for most of the day.
Most of the stocks, except for Lehman, had recovered somewhat in the early afternoon, but all were still lower on the day.
Financial stocks have been easy game for most of the past year, as long as you were betting on them to fall.
For the first half of the year most utility stocks managed to weather the Enron scandal, falling an average of only 6% during the period.
Part of the reason for that is the fact that most fear selling of stocks has already happened.
Stocks in the most recent report for PADD I were 39.5 million barrels.
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Most portfolios for retirees should include some percentage of stocks to address the reality of inflation and to help assist in long-term (albeit more modest) growth.
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Karen Dynan, co-director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, thinks the effect may be bigger this time round because of the decline in the value of houses, which for most families are a larger source of wealth than stocks.
For the most part, you can create a playlist of stocks and track the performance.
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Thain has attempted to work out a hybrid model that promotes greater use of electronic trading, especially among the most liquid stocks, while preserving a role for the floor.
Concerns about the economy and the federal deficit have not subsided, even if positive news headlines have most investors feeling more upbeat about the outlook for stocks.
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