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Eric Dutram: As a pioneer in the retail business, the United States provides ample retail growth opportunities for all types of retail sales. Retailers of any sizes, including individual direct marketers or direct sellers, small- to medium-sized franchise unit owners, and large Read more…
Daniela Pylypczak: Central bankers across the globe were in the limelight once again last week, as both the Fed and the ECB delivered rather disappointing commentary to the markets. Recently, ECB President Draghi had emphasized the ECB’s willingness Read more…
Stocks began the session weak but ended strong, on heavier trade. All five major indices formed bullish reversal candles and closed near session highs. The S&P 500 showed relative strength, as it closed up 0.7%. The S&P MidCap 400 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets were dominated by back-and-forth trading last week as mixed economic data releases at home collided with interest rate cuts in China and Europe. On the homefront, investors expressed their concerns as ISM manufacturing Read more…
Stocks continued their upward surge on Friday, on strong trade. All five major indices closed more than two percent higher. High beta issues led the charge with the Nasdaq, small-cap Russell 2000 and S&P MidCap 400 posting gains of 3.0%, 2.9% and 2.8% Read more…
Market Vectors ETFs, the fifth largest provider of exchange-traded products in the U.S. and the eighth largest provider of ETPs globally, announced today that it has added five NYSE Arca-traded ETFs to the growing list of Market Vectors ETFs currently available to Read more…
PMI data overnight continues to confirm the thesis that economic growth is slowing around the world. As everyone starts to talk and clamor about it, something usually Read more…
Eric Dutram: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), the world’s number one retailer, is finding itself in hot water once again with the general public, this time due to bribery allegations among the firm’s Mexican operations. It has been alleged that the giant was engaged in a scheme over multiple years which may have totaled more Read more…
We are now going on day three of the slide that started Tuesday afternoon. After a big move from the December 20th Gap and Go selling some longs into the end of the first quarter#1 made sense. There is always a re-shuffle that goes on from Qtr. to Qtr. so Read more…
Futures are slightly lower Monday morning, taking cues from overseas markets. A surprising China trade deficit and the wait for final approval of the Greek bailout have curtailed risk appetite slightly. Markets closed almost where they started last week, but Read more…
NASDAQ:QQQ, NASDAQ:QQQQ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:OIH, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:XHB
Stocks gapped up sharply on Tuesday and steadily rallied the entire day, to close at session highs. All five major indices ended the session up more that 2.75%. The small-cap Russell 2000 Read more…
Stocks took back most of Friday’s gains but, once again, trade was light. However, the market did manage to recover into the close, and finished off of session lows. All five major indices ended the session in the red, with the S&P MidCap 400 and the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSEARCA:IWM) leading Read more…
US stock futures point to a higher open on Wall Street Tuesday following Monday’s decline. Better than expected economic sentiment numbers out of Germany is being credited for the increased risk appetite, and investors will also be anticipating the US Federal Reserve’s announcement on Read more…
NASDAQ:QQQ, NASDAQ:QQQQ, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:OIH, NYSE:RTH, NYSE:SPY
US stock futures are flat Thursday morning, taking a pause after a massive three-day rally. Yesterday pre-market there was a perfect storm of news that sent futures romping higher. The Fed, ECB, BoJ, BoE, SNB, Bank of Canada lowered interest rates 50 bps on dollar swaps, and China lowered its Read more…
Market Vectors will transition six of their ETFs from the Merrill Lynch HOLDRs to Market Vector exchange traded funds, tomorrow December 21st. According to Deutsche Bank, the new ETFs should provide a better representation of 
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