market theory

It was on that ominous day that panic selling in the silver pits of Chicago spilled over to the stock and all commodity markets, causing both to take an unusually hard shellacking. ... But, in theory, buying silver futures on margin in early 1979 could have reaped lifestyle-altering profits in less than 12 months.

Why would the IRS care whether the stock market is strong as Tax Day approaches? One theory is that the government wants the economy to be as liquid as possible during early April in order to facilitate the payment of tax bills, and that some of that additional liquidity finds its way into the stock market.

... Mendelson addressed this question more than thirty years ago in a paper in the Journal of Financial Markets. They said that postulating a liquidity risk premium resolves a puzzle raised by the capital asset-pricing model. Given CAPM, expected stock returns should increase linearly with their market betas.

The smallcap index and the broader market index, the NSE Nifty 500, outperformed the benchmark Nifty 50, while the midcap index under performed ... But, with fears rising of a Sino-American trade war that would cause global collateral damage, that theory should be applied to U.S. President Donald ...

By the end of 2017, a single Bitcoin was worth almost $20,000, and the cryptocurrency market as a whole had a value of $830 billion. Just a few weeks ... Sornette has long suggested that it is possible to predict the collapse of speculative bubbles using certain characteristics of the markets. Indeed, readers ...

A Dow Theory sell signal was close to forming. According to MarketWatch columnist Mark Hulbert there are a number of steps, but as of Friday, the market had just to see the Dow Jones Transportation Average DJT, +2.05% close below its Feb. 9 low of 10,136.61 to trigger that sell signal after the Dow Jones ...

In this episode, I want to bring to your attention to a new syllogism of the stock market that I believe better reflects the realities of fund under- or out-performance. I talk about the importance of having an open mind and embracing new perspectives, too, and I walk through instances where the percentage of ...

But her fascination with theories of sexual selection led to an unexpected shift in her interests toward the humanities. With a bachelor's degree in biology from Carleton College and a master's degree from Michigan in hand, she went on to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a doctorate in ...

In an open letter published in The Guardian, Berners-Lee said social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook enable conspiracy theories to trend, social tensions to be stoked, criminals ... Berners-Lee said Google has 87% of the market for search, while Facebook's active monthly users now number more than 2.2 billion.

And then, most did not heed the Dow Theory "sell signal" that occurred on September 23, 1999, so they gave back much of their late-cycle gains. Consequently, they need to take full advantage of this secular bull market, which we continue to believe has years left to run. And there is yet another much ...

When Haitham Al-Ghais, the director of market research for the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was asked about peak oil demand last week, he smiled broadly ... to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, said Neil Atkinson, the head of the International Energy Association's oil industry and markets division.

an Jerome Powell, believe that economic fundamentals are strong, and that what stock markets experienced in early February was only a temporary hiccup. In this view ... The idea that asset-price movements can be unrelated to fundamentals is not strange to students of economic theory. After all, there are ...

If particular economic trends and underlying conditions perpetuated the multi-decade bear phase in yield, then in theory, the bottoming phase is incubating the opposite-economic conditions and underlying trends that will have the potential to perpetuate a powerful yield bull market. That market is something that anyone ...

Yet in further irony, despite what happened in economic theory, the logic of the Phillips curve underlies central banking. Every time the Fed's policymaking open-market committee issues a statement saying that it will or will not tighten the money supply based on wage or CPI changes versus unemployment, ...

Macaulay Culkin has heard about some of those crazy Home Alone conspiracy theories, and he went through a couple with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight ... Fallon explained this theory that stipulates Elvis Presley secretly had a cameo in the first Home Alone during the scene where Kevin's mom is trying to ...

Mr. Trump's off-the-cuff opening of a trade war rattled the stock market, enraged Republicans and left Mr. Cohn's future in doubt. Mr. Cohn, who almost left last year after Mr. Trump's response to a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Va., indicated he was waiting to see whether Mr. Trump goes through ...

The Dow Theory, for those who don't know its history, was created a century ago by William Peter Hamilton, then the editor of the Wall Street Journal. He introduced his theory in stages over several decades in editorials in his newspaper, leaving to generations of followers the task of devising specific rules ...

The company is a market leader in wireless backhaul - both in terms of its technological capabilities and as well its leading market share amongst its peer group in the "best of breed" segment. Speaking straightforwardly, "wireless backhaul" technologies are used to increase wireless network coverage and ...

Bitcoin dropped 15.5 percent Monday to its lowest since mid-November, while the S&P 500 fell 4.1 percent in its worst day in six years. Meanwhile, gold futures slipped just 0.06 percent during Monday's stock market plunge, and are up 2.58 percent for the year so far. Bitcoin has lost half its value for 2018.

The first is that the Dow Theory has been beating the market for an awfully long time. One academic study from the 1990s calculated the theory's track record over the prior seven decades, back to when it was created in the early part of the last century; the study found that the Dow Theory beat the broader ...

Following Trump's win, Kass, a four-decade Wall Street veteran and a prominent market commentator, bet against the U.S. stock market, beefing up his short positions on the assumption that equity markets would fall. His theory, shared by plenty of other Wall Street pros, held that Trump's lack of governing ...

Operating behind this Dow index, there are six tenets to his "Dow Theory" of stock index price movement. But there is only one Dow tenet I will focus on, today, in this article. This "Dow Theory" Tenet: Stock market averages must confirm each other. In Dow's time, the U.S. was a growing industrial power.