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'A Clear Break With Prevailing Policy': Stock Market Update For The Week Ahead
Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 1:32pm | 2206Read More...The Last Week In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended positive, with broad gains in all S&P 500 sectors. Remember This: “Some data suggests consumer health has started to improve,” said Lindsey Bell, chief investment strategist at Ally Financial Inc (NYSE: ALLY)-owned Ally...
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Tuesday's Market Minute: Small-Caps See A Big Move
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 - 9:34am | 219Read More...Stocks came roaring back after last week’s sharp dip, with many traders noting strength in Russell 2000 futures. Small-caps have long been the underperformer of the four major equity index futures, but the /RTY has experienced a swift increase of almost 8.5% on heavy volume since Sunday...
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The Small Caps Hold The Key To The Rest Of 2020 And Beyond
Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 9:23am | 1338Read More...By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net Right before I had to undergo a surgery at the end of the first week of February, I began to pen an article regarding the potential bearish set up in IWM as a follow up to the bearish analysis I posted about EEM earlier that week entitled...
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Focus On Small Caps: What Is The Russell 2000 Index?
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 3:32pm | 1153Read More...If you read a lot of financial news, you’ll see many daily market stories that focus on the performance of three U.S. stock market indices: the S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP: .INX), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX: .DJI), and the NASDAQ Composite Index (...
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Friday's Market Minute: Laboring Toward A Breakout
Friday, August 30, 2019 - 11:29am | 293Read More...It’s been a month of ups and downs for equities. After the Aug. 2 close of 2,934.50, S&P 500 futures plunged by as much as 5.4% during the next two days. Although the contract eventually found support near 2,820 and recovered to 2,930, prices have since seesawed between these levels two...
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OTC Markets Group Launches A New Dataset To Help Identify Listed Small-Cap Risk
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 1:17pm | 497Read More...OTC Markets, the market for stocks that don’t trade on U.S. exchanges, announced Tuesday a new compliance tool that they hope will make it easier to identify and analyze risk for small cap listed stocks. The Small-Cap Listed Compliance Product analyzes listed stocks with market caps below $...
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Small Cap Investors Could Be In Store For A Volatile End To 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - 1:19pm | 376Read More...For most of 2017, volatility has remained tame, but heading into the final weeks of trading, small-cap stocks may be in for a volatile ride. The Expert Matt Maley, an equity strategist with Miller Tabak. The Strategy As the White House appears ready to debate the tax bill, the small-cap iShares...
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Where Small-Caps Are Dynamite
Friday, October 20, 2017 - 7:19am | 588Read More...Sure, U.S. small-cap stocks and the related exchange-traded funds have recently been resurgent. Give the widely followed Russell 2000 Index some credit for jumping more than 4 percent over the past month to bring its year-to-date gain to almost 11 percent. An 11 percent year-to-date gain is nice,...
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Here's Why The Strength In Small-Cap Stocks Won't Last
Thursday, July 20, 2017 - 11:48am | 314Read More...Small-cap stocks as measured by the iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) (NYSE: IWM) hit an all-time high this week, but investors should look to take some of their profit off the table, at least according to Rich Ross of Evercore ISI. Taking a step back, the Russell 2000 has been showing some signs of...
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Adam Feuerstein Unloads On Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Will Break Down Its Manipulation On PreMarket Prep
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 11:24am | 403Read More...Shares of Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: CYCC) continued trading higher on Tuesday after Monday's strong gains. Cyclacel issued a press release over the weekend which detailed a presentation from independent investigators. The investigation highlighted the therapeutic potential of...
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Citi Research Sees Safety In Small Caps
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 1:44pm | 346Read More...The typical “flight to safety” investments have been strong performers since the Brexit vote caught the world off guard last week. The iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond (ETF) (NASDAQ: TLT) is up 5.5 percent, and the SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) (NYSE: GLD) is up 4.4 percent, while the SPDR S...
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Election Year Trends Don't Favor These ETFs
Friday, May 27, 2016 - 8:48am | 561Read More...It has been a ho-hum year for small-cap stocks as highlighted by a gain of 0.75 percent for the benchmark Russell 2000, and things are mixed for micro-cap exchange-traded funds — as just one of the three ETFs dedicated to smaller small-caps is up on the year. An interesting election year...
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Dividends Make A Difference For Small-Cap ETFs
Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 7:52am | 613Read More...Investors typically prize small caps for growth. Rarely are these stocks and standard small-cap exchange-traded funds thought of as dividend destinations — certainly not with the Russell 2000 and the S&P SmallCap 600 sporting an average trailing 12-month dividend yield of 1.46 percent....
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Value Fund Manager: China Techfaith Priced 'At Dung'
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 2:02pm | 760Read More...According to jkvaluefund, shares of China Techfaith Wireless Comm. Tech. Ltd (NASDAQ: CNTF) are priced "at dung." China Techfaith's stock has lost 53 percent from a year ago and more than 90 percent over the past 10 years. Jkvaluefund noted that the company has over $350 million in assets, but...
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Credit Suisse Remains 'On Guard' In U.S. Stocks Despite Attractive Valuations
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 12:37pm | 431Read More...Credit Suisse's U.S. equity research team, led by Lori Calvasina, released a report titled "August's Sell-Off in a Nutshell." The analysts began the report by noting that the "rout" in equities over the past few days "should not be surprising" as institutional investors and traders developed...
