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Standard Chartered Shares Jump as New CEO Winters Draws Upgrades
March 18th, 2015
Standard Chartered Plc rose the most in two weeks as analysts at Barclays Plc and Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. upgraded the bank, citing Bill Winters’s hiring as chief executive officer and a diminishing need to raise capital. “We expect ...
Bottom Line for S&P 500 Is Top Line as Price-Sales Ratio Expands
February 9th, 2015
The bottom line for this bull market may turn out to be the top line. After a six-year run in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, corporate revenue, not corporate profits, is flashing red. Judged against sales, the index ...
Stocks: Dow, S&P 500 close at record highs
November 11th, 2014
Wall Street continued to march further into record territory Monday as the Dow and S&P 500 closed at record highs again. Investors have been pushing stocks higher on signs the U.S. economy continues to improve and as corporate earnings come ...
Stocks close mixed: S&P drops, Dow bumps up
November 5th, 2014
Stocks closed mixed Tuesday as markets struggled from a one-two punch of falling oil prices and renewed fears of a global slowdown. A wait-and-see posture regarding Tuesday’s elections may also be holding back investors. The Standard & Poor’s 500 ...
S&P 500 Rising at Five Times GDP Shows Recovery Priced In
October 27th, 2014
For almost six years, one of the most powerful bull markets on record has coexisted with the weakest economic recovery since World War II. This month’s selloff in stocks shows how much investors want that to change. In the ...
Stocks fall as S&P 500 breaks 4-day winning streak
October 23rd, 2014
Dow drops 153 points and falls back into the red for the year. Stocks fell Wednesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average back into the red for the year and breaking the S&P 500’s four-day winning streak. The market ...
Stocks rise: S&P 500 up for 3rd straight day
October 21st, 2014
Nasdaq also rises for a third straight day and the Dow comes back from a 120-point drop. Stocks closed higher Monday, adding to Friday’s strong rally as investors shake off last week’s volatile trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock ...
Greithner must deliver S&P documents in $5 billion U.S. fraud lawsuit
September 26th, 2014
On legal news, Timothy Geithner, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, must give Standard & Poor’s documents, basically unedited versions, he used when writing his best-selling memoir, a ruling that could help S&P defend against the government’s $5 billion fraud lawsuit ...
S&P 500 Short-Term Contracts See Trading Volume Jump
September 11th, 2014
In a market where stock volume is evaporating, volume in short-term options is surging. A daily average of 309,000 contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) that expire weekly have changed hands in the first four days ...
10 ‘poorest’ companies make investors rich
September 10th, 2014
Investors love to think companies with piles of cash must surely make them rich, too. But this year, it’s the companies with the least moolah that are making the most cash for investors. The 10 companies in the Standard ...
