Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Concerns over trillion-dollar budget deficits, rising rates and inflationary pressures officially pushed the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones in the correction zone. These led the 30-year Treasury yield...

The U.S. equity market has been on a roller-coaster of late. In fact, Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 1,033 points or 4.2% on Feb 8. Other major bourses – the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq...

The Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB) is set to release fourth-quarter 2017 results after the closing bell on Feb 14.In the preceding quarter, the Tulsa, OK-based company reported a negative...

What REALLY happens when an insider buys stock?I'm talking about insider "trading". This is the legal kind, when insiders buy and sell company shares. There are a lot of different reasons that may...

Insperity Inc. (NYSE:NSP) , the Human Capital Management (HCM) platform provider, is set to release fourth-quarter 2017 results on Feb 12.Notably, the company beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in...

NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) reported better-than-expected results for fourth-quarter 2017. The company’s non-GAAP earnings from continuing operations of 92 cents per share surpassed the Zacks...

The need to remain connected is essentially human. An era of digitization and technology is built on this need. It is here that telecommunications come to the fore as a necessary utility. The rising...

Stock market correction seems to be in the offing as over the last five trading days extreme volatility was witnessed. The banking stocks are not untouched by this.It all started last Friday when...

Is the stock market rigged?On February 6, Paul Craig Roberts asked if the Plunge Protection Team (a colloquial name given to the Fed's Working Group on Financial Markets) had stepped in and prevented...

Without a doubt, days like yesterday and for that matter, the past week or so can be very unsettling for any investor. The key is to have an investing plan and a source for solid investment ideas....

Index Futures Net Changes and Settlements:Foreign Markets, Fair Value and Volume: In Asia 10 out of 11 markets closed higher: Shanghai Comp -1.42%, Hang Seng +0.42%, Nikkei +1.13% In Europe 12 out...

I have often written that sentiment measures are most valuable at their extremes. Also, they tend to be most representative of potential market turning points when the extreme is at the bearish end of...

Last year was a roller coaster ride for healthcare industry, but overall the sector showed resilience and was able to post a positive performance. The SPDR S&P Health Care Services (NYSE:XHS) ETF...

After another volatile day of trading on Thursday, all of the nine US Major Indices closed down hard and four are officially now in 10% correction territory (with the others closely behind), as shown...