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Jon OggWe are now well past the end of 2013, and many strategists have mixed targets for the stock and bond markets in 2014. The last year brought gains of 26.5% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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thinkstockStocks were highly confused all day after the Labor Department showed that a 6.7% unemployment rate surprise was simply because so many people have dropped out of the workforce. The real...
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Boeing's shares rose more than 80% in 2013, the best in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was just over 25% higher for the year. The next closest in the index was American Express at 55%.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up nearly 26% so far this year. While the index, which consists of stocks of 30 major U.S. companies, is a widely followed indicator of the overall market’s...
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thinkstockDecember 12, 2013: Markets opened mixed on Thursday morning with the Nasdaq showing some early spunk. The DJIA remained in negative territory all day, as did the S&P 500. By the closing...
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ThinkstockThere is a trend at the end of each year followed by many income investors. This is the Dogs of the Dow, which is simply made up of the 10 Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) components...
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Jon OggThis Friday will bring the Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department. Ben Bernanke and team at the Federal Reserve have only had to worry about their employment target, since...
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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesRBS says stocks could rise 30% next year. A slew of other investment banks and market analysts may not be that optimistic, but there is plenty of talk about...
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The stock market gains of well over 20% for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index have been a capstone of a multiyear bull market for stocks. That does not mean that stocks...
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ThinkstockThe stock market has enjoyed what is now eight weeks of gains and new highs in just about each of those weeks. Now investors have to be considering how to position their portfolios for...
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a very strange index considering that it is “The Stock Market” when most people who are not traders discuss how stocks did on any given day. Its most...
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Jon OggIt is a bull market and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index have both challenged new all-time highs recently. For the market to keep rising, more stocks have to keep...
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Jon OggThird quarter earnings season has been more positive than expected by and large. We have seen some very positive earnings season reactions. We have also seen some serious duds after earnings....
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ThinkstockVisa Inc. (NYSE: V) was among the most recent additions to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). It is obviously a systemic measurement of credit card use globally, but it is now also...
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courtesy of McDonald'sThe Dow Jones Industrial Average is up more than 19% so far this on the year. The DJIA, an index of 30 stocks from some of the country’s largest companies, is a widely...
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