Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market… Read More

Earnings are supporting higher stock prices, and new records for the S&P 500 seem within reach. S&P 500 2,000? SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) ended the week virtually unchanged. Friday’s close of $169.11 was only 6 cents below the previous week’s close, a difference of 0.04%. It was a relatively dull week with the difference from the low to the high being only 1.38%. Since the bull market began in 2009, the average weekly range of SPY has been 3.38%. Earnings continued to come in above expectations, and quarterly earnings for companies in the S&P 500 are on track to reach an all-time high. Analysts are optimistic that this trend in earnings should continue for at least the next year, expecting earnings per share (EPS) for the stocks that make up the S&P 500… Read More

To paraphrase the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the tenure of a corporate executive can be “nasty, brutish and short.” Indeed, many CEOs and chief financial officers last just a few years on the job before the board decides that fresh blood is needed. Most of the time, such a transition appears to be orderly, but when an abrupt change is made, you should almost always move quickly to sell shares. There’s a very good chance that you’ll be able to buy back shares at a much better price down the road, for reasons… Read More

To paraphrase the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the tenure of a corporate executive can be “nasty, brutish and short.” Indeed, many CEOs and chief financial officers last just a few years on the job before the board decides that fresh blood is needed. Most of the time, such a transition appears to be orderly, but when an abrupt change is made, you should almost always move quickly to sell shares. There’s a very good chance that you’ll be able to buy back shares at a much better price down the road, for reasons I’ll explain in a moment. Scandal In The Grocery Aisle After a series of stumbles, including a botched deal to buy Pringles potato crisps and allegations of price-fixing of in the walnut market, several executives at Diamond Foods (Nasdaq: DMND) were abruptly terminated in February 2012. Shares suddenly collapsed by two-thirds from prices seen just a few months earlier, leading some investors to start to bottom-feed this stock in search of value. Such buying turned out to be premature, as Diamond Foods’ problems only deepened from there,… Read More

Billionaire investor. Philanthropist. Political provocateur.  His legendary investing acumen, vast net worth and political activism have made George Soros a feared and respected power broker worldwide.  Soros is driven by an… Read More