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Daniel Goulding dug deeper into the empirical data to find out whether Santa Claus rallies in Australia have any relevance for investors

This is the best time of the year for stocks. And stocks are doing very well. In fact, this is exactly when Small-caps historically start to outperform their…

A miserable harvest in Florida has led to a fevered market some are likening to the GameStop run

Strong earnings and reduced valuations could propel tech stocks higher, lifting the broad market in the seasonally strong fourth quarter.

Christmas is a wonderful season in more ways than one. Since our focus is on investing, I’ll stick with the markets. Here’s the good news: The days around Christmas and New Year’s Day have historically…

Provided by Dow Jones By Karen Langley and Joe Wallace U.S. stocks surged Friday, ending a wild week during which investors continued to rotate out of big technology shares and into the cyclical sectors that tend to thrive in a recovering economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% for the week, as advances by the energy, financial and industrial sectors offset declines in the technology and consumer discretionary groups. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, meanwhile, declined 2....

Well, that escalated quickly... Source: Bloomberg ...but as the way wore on the squeeze faded, but still SLV (the silver ETF) was up almost 14% in the last 3 days - the biggest jump since early August... In the latest outrage provoking example of police overreach and brutality to go viral, the Rochester Police Department in New York are under scrutiny after last Friday officers responded to a family disturbance call which ended up in the police pepper-spraying a deeply distraught 9-year old g...

A ‘Dumb-Money Confidence’ stock-market gauge is flashing a warning MarketWatch 2/1/2021 THE TELL One popular timing measure of Wall Street optimism is flashing a warning sign, says SentimenTrader. A gauge of the confidence of individual investors, colloquially referred to as “dumb money,” was breaching a level at 0.67 that SentimenTrader’s Jay Kaeppel deemed indicative of trouble for forward returns in the S&P 500 index “For at the moment, one of our ‘bread-and-butter’ me...