2012 Hi-Tech Stocks
S&P, Dow wrap up best January in 21st century
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — January offered up an apology to discouraged investors. Unlike 2011, when markets spiked and sunk several hundred points each day but ultimately closed out the year relatively flat, all three indexes mostly climbed higher throughout the month with occasional dips. The Nasdaq climbed 8% in January and the S&P 500 and [...]
Strange Volume of Ryanair Holdings plc – NASDAQ -RYAAY
Ryanair Holdings plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:RYAAY) witnessed volume of 3.02 million shares during last trade however it holds an average trading capacity of 584,176.00 shares. RYAAY last trade opened at $27.46 reached intraday low of $27.08 and went-0.83% down to close at $27.51. RYAAY has a market capitalization $8.17 billion and an enterprise value at $9.52 [...]
2012 Preview – General Electric
The calendar has turned, and the new year has begun. Now… what are you going to do with it? In our 2012 preview series, we’re taking a look at some of our favorite stocks, and wondering: Will they do as well this year as last year? Or in General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE ) case… could they [...]
Is Inflation Running Too Hot?
Last week, the BLS released PPI and CPI. Both of these numbers came in pretty hot, so it seems appropriate to look into the reports in some depth to see what’s going on. Let’s start with PPI, which is A family of indexes that measure the average change over time in selling prices received by [...]
Europe And The U.S. – Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Bail?
Western European and US governments share something in common: the US government thought certain favored donors, er, “financial institutions,” were too big to fail. That’s nothing new. The government, or US taxpayers, have been bailing out Wall Street and the big money center banks since the turn of the century — the 20th century, that [...]