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Have you ever woken up to find that a stock in your portfolio made a dramatic move overnight? Are you interested in learning how to understand each day's post-market and pre-market moves? Veteran traders Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick will give you all of the insights that you'll need to...

Thomas Lee, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) Chief U.S. Equity Strategist, spoke on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday morning, where he discussed where investors should put their money to work and why, as well as the place of the Fed in today's and tomorrow's market. "I think investors who have't put money...

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Evidently, President Obama had no time to bask in the glory of victory, amidst a looming fiscal showdown and a divided Congress capable of thwarting his efforts. Republicans will be in a position to block Obama's ambitions -– including immigration and tax reforms -– as they maintained a majority in...

U.S. equity futures rose in early Thursday trading as comments from the World Bank's President, Dr. Jim Young Kim, indicated that he believes that China will be very aggressive in trying to restore growth once the political transition has taken place within the first half of 2013. The comments from...

As the U.S., Japan and some developed Europe nations come to grips with astronomically higher debt-to-GDP ratios and less-than-perfect credit ratings, investors looking for sound fiscal positions might do well to consider emerging markets. From Latin America to the Middle East to Southeast Asia,...

Following three days where 20-plus stocks were re-rated into daily Buy- or Sell-equivalent views, sell-side analysts had a light day. Five stocks received new bullish views (upgrades to or initiations with Buy, Overweight or Outperform) and three others were subject to bearish ratings actions (...

By Peter Tchir, Minyanville I have to say, Monday seemed like a strange day. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) -- oh, sorry I meant Nasdaq (^IXIC) -- was down over 0.5%, the S&P (^GSPC) was unchanged, and the Dow (^DJI) was up over 0.5%. It all makes sense when you look at the shares, but it gives me a...

What difference does a week make in this market? Not much. Despite a significant selloff on Tuesday, the S&P 500 futures rebounded for the remainder of the week to settle a few points higher. Of course, the rollover from the March to June futures contract was responsible for some of the...

Another week spent struggling to close above 13,000 and no cigar. Wake me up when we get there. Although the market was able to breach that level on two occasions, the highest close it could muster was 12,984. Based on the current market, that will be just a stopping point on the way to test...