Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The industrial sector has been on a tear lately with several related ETFs hitting an all-time high on Dec 4, 2017. The largest industrial ETF S&P 500 Industrial Sector SPDR XLI hasgarnered about...

All eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains for 2017 through December 4. The top performer thus far is Hong Kong's Hang Seng with a gain of 32.44%, followed by India's BSE SENSEX at...

Despite challenges posed by the recent hurricanes (Harvey, Irma and Maria), railroads performed quite well in the third quarter of 2017. In fact, key sector players like Union Pacific Corp. (UNP),...

Shares of McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) gained more than 1.6% in morning trading Tuesday after analysts from Jeffries upgraded the stock. Today’s gains were enough to send...

Here is the latest update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor's "as reported" earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly average of daily closes...

The three Canadian pipeline stocks on our list have a good chance of continuing to ride higher along with a rising oil priceSmallCapPower | December 4, 2017: With OPEC extending cuts from March 2018...

The CAC has started the week with strong gains. In the Monday session, the CAC is at 5384.00, up 1.30% since the Friday close. On the release front, Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence dropped to...

The Vienna meeting between 14 OPEC members and crude exporters outside the cartel, headed by Russia, has been quite a breather for energy investors. The crude output cut deal extension beyond the...

After Friday's sell-and-recovery it had looked like there was an opportunity to play a bounce, particularly for the Semiconductor Index. Yesterday, however, the reality proved to be different.Sellers...

The US IPO market shows a familiar ebb and flow to the stock market price cycle. Studying the trends in IPO activity can yield interesting sentiment signals and provide extra context on the overall...

Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (NASDAQ:COLL) closed down 6 cents to 16.94, on nearly 500,000 shares traded on Monday. In afterhours, however, it formed a nice wedge on an announcement that they did a...

NASDAQ Short term Elliott Wave view suggests that the rally to 6429.5 ended Intermediate wave (3). Intermediate wave (4) pullback is currently in progress to correct cycle from 8/21 low (5753.6) in 3,...

This is an important week for economic data in the U.S., but not quite yet. This Friday morning, we shall see the latest non-farm payroll numbers and unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor...

Tuesday, December 5, 2017This is an important week for economic data in the U.S., but not quite yet. This Friday morning, we shall see the latest non-farm payroll numbers and unemployment rate from...