The Hong Kong Futures Exchange has warned the territory's 30 information providers not to supply Simex with real-time stock market data.
Nearly a year ago it sold its 50 percent stake in stock market index and data provider FTSE International Ltd.
The stock market should react when data comes in better than anticipated, and that is what we are seeing today.
Economists, historians, and stock market analysts have crunched copious amounts of data over the years to predict market movements, and the results hold promising news for investors.
But the main reason why so many people have such trouble reconciling improving or deteriorating economic data and stock market conditions is the Recency Effect.
All these have a survivorship bias: investments mentioned at dinner parties, stocks charted in Value Line, entrepreneurs featured in FORBES, stock market histories (does your data set include the --100% compound annual return on Russia over the past century?), available hedge fund performance numbers and every mutual fund ad.
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Combine this with consistent positive U.S Data and you have stock market stair stepping higher.
The word on the Street was that, with the help of quantitative easing and some positive US data, the US stock market was the new growth story.
It includes impressive graphs, comparing the the price of fancy colored diamonds to the platinum market and the stock market, and includes eye-catching data points, such as the fact that the price of fancy pink diamonds have increased by 443% over the last 10 years.
Instead of blind investing in the stock market, I downloaded fifty years of stock data and started statistically modeling what happens in hundreds of different situations.
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The latest weak eurozone services sector data did little to improve stock market sentiment, already hit by the indication overnight that the US Federal Reserve is not considering a further round of quantitative easing (QE) to help boost the American economy.
The market has been so overwhelmed with wave after wave of strong earnings that this news has overpowered any negative data that previously were hindering the stock market.
That sets up a counterintuitive situation in which the stock market might react more favorably to weak September jobs data than to a strong report, which would lessen the odds of additional monetary easing.
The plunge in the Japanese stock market Thursday spilled into Europe, overshadowing moderately better economic data in the Continent.
As dismal employment data threw the U.S. stock market for a loop on Friday, Europe worried about rising inflation and slow economic growth.
These headlines bombard us daily, announcing the release of the latest data, which will invariably move the stock market in one direction or another.
Crude oil prices traded sharply lower Thursday on the EU debt woes, the fresh, weak U.S. economic data and the slumping U.S. stock market.
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In order to understand what the market is saying, you have to break off the bond market from the stock market in order to compare them and see what gifts the data (Latin for givens or gifts) offer.
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If you look at the table below based on data from Eakle's decades-long Stock Market Diary, you will see that Monday probably represented a dramatic purge and capitulation such as we haven't seen since 1987 or 1990, when the percentage of stocks above their 200-day moving averages also fell to single digits.
The following chart first illustrates stock reactions on down days, this data taken in the early market on July 25, at the beginning of the market jitteriness with the debt talks.
Since 1925, market data indicates that small-cap stocks outperform the broader stock market in January.
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However, this data did not take into account the month of August when stock market turbulence went into overdrive and consumer confidence suffered.
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The data comes from before the miserable month of October, when the stock market slid and dragged consumer sentiment down with it.
And last, but definitely not least, the improving data and the corresponding rally in stock prices tells us that the stock market is beginning to raise the bar in terms of expectations going forward.
That being said, there is some negative correlation evidence in the data that shows pessimistically low sentiment among market experts is often followed by higher stock prices.
Earlier this week the stock-data provider Nanex told my colleague that firms send in massive orders on purpose to manipulate the market.
Click here or on the graphic below to interact with the data and compare exchange performance based on number of IPOs, amount raised, market cap, stock performance and across different industries.
The return of stock market volatility after some relatively calm months may be exciting for some traders on Wall Street, but it new data shows that the individual investor is content to take some chips off the table here.
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