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The reason that stocks are not reacting well to this otherwise positive decision could be that the market no longer trusts the Fed to control interest rates.
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Greece goes to the polls for the third time in four years on Sunday, and the consequences could be very deep, and pushing the monetary union into disarray for a fourth time.
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It is not hard to see why GM shares have been so dismal, down 12% in five years, while almost everything else has been in a raging bull market.
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Yahoo’s lesson should be to dig for more loopholes so it can breathe. It is not Wal-Mart. It can shelter its income overseas it wants to.
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Don’t be fooled by Japan’s frantic 7.7% rally Tuesday. It is most likely a bull trap that is short term in nature and will reverse itself relatively quickly.
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had some strong words for China, indicating that the United States would hold China accountable for its currency manipulation.
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As in all outbreaks of volatility, there are islands of relative stability drowned out by the companies causing the loudest turbulence.
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If what happened Monday keeps happening, here are four stocks to avoid, or sell if you own them.
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The whipsawing volatility in equities since last week is unprecedented, and not just in the United States.
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Monday was historic. But these types of movements are not one off. They usually come in clusters.
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As for the question of how far the capital markets in China can conceivably fall from here, the answer is, another 40% is very possible. Here's why.
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Are Wal-Mart's woes due to its own minimum wage increases back in April? And if so, will minimum wage trouble spread to McDonald's?
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The question is how Home Depot and Lowe's respond historically to changing conditions in the housing market. Which retailer is more resilient and which more dependent an improving housing market?
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With Chinese stocks crashing another 6% and oil pushing $40 a barrel, sometimes we need to be reminded that good things still happen in the corporate world. And indeed they do, as the past few days...
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While this isn't technically a pyramid scheme, it definitely has a pyramidal structure to it. We have seen this movie before, except this time it is slightly different.
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