Category: Stocks and Bonds

  • Wealth Management Summit Tips

    During a Wealth Management Summit being held this week in Boston, Singapore and Geneva, private banking executives provided some investment tips. Jennifer Tay, Citi Private Bank, Asia-Pacific Head of Portfolio Counselling “We tell clients, markets are not going to stay down forever. There will come a time when you have very decent recovery and typically…

  • Best on the Street Analysts Survey

    Thomson Financial, an operating unit of the Thomson Corporation and leading provider of information and technology solutions to the global financial community, and The Wall Street Journal have teamed for the eighth consecutive year for the Best on the Street Analysts Survey published in today’s Journal. According to the survey, Merrill Lynch & Co. regained…

  • Investors Superconference 2007

    Options University Presents the 1st Annual Online Trading & Investors Superconference 2007 with Leading Financial Experts on Wednesday, April 25 with Renowned Worldwide Financial Experts On Wednesday, April 25, the media will have the rare opportunity to hear from the seven top financial trading experts – under the same roof and to conduct one-on-one interviews…

  • Market Comments by Derek Frey

    This week all eyes will be on the Fed. and their interest rate announcement coming at 2:15 EST on Wednesday. This meeting will set the tone for many markets for the remainder of the 1st quarter. We are not expecting the FOMC to do anything and that should be disappointing for a market that has…

  • New FTSE 100 Investment Note

    Barclays Stockbrokers introduce a new FTSE 100 Investment Note available within an ISA. (PRWEB) March 16, 2007 — Barclays introduces a new FTSE 100 Investment Note available within an ISA. The Investment Note offers a six year investment which at the end of the term: Repays capital invested Pays a return of 140% of any…

  • China Stumbles, Markets Tumble

    Will the Volatility Continue? The Economist called it “a snort from a dragon’s nostrils.” At the end of February, as China’s stock market index fell by more than 8%, stock markets tumbled around the globe — it was their steepest decline since the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more…

  • This Week’s Market Turmoil: Hiccough or Start of a Crash?

    From London to New York, Shanghai to Singapore, Tokyo to Seoul; the world’s major bourses have taken a big hit this past week, major market turmoil with the metals also getting a pounding. What is going on? The sell off began on Tuesday in China, spreading to other Asian countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore…

  • Emerging Growth Stock Day Conference

    NEW YORK, NY — (MARKET WIRE) — February 20, 2007 — EQUITIES Magazine proudly announces its Emerging Growth Stock Day Conference at the Yale Club on Friday, February 23, 2007. This exciting event is aimed at emerging growth companies presenting to a sophisticated audience of brokers, fund managers, investment professionals and active retail investors. For…

  • The Dow Theory

    You will hear a lot about the Dow Theory as you travel through your trading career. Dow himself never actually used the phrase. That came later as analysts began to use the term. I should back up here slightly and mention that in 1884 Dow published his first stock market average of 11 stocks. From…