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Think of America's stockmarket. What is the first firm that springs to mind? Perhaps it is one that made you money, or maybe one whose shares you are considering buying. [...]

Stock prices and workplace mobility trace out striking clockwise paths in daily data from mid-February to late May 2020. Global stock prices fell 30% from 17 February to 12 March, before mobility declined. Over the next 11 days, stocks fell another 10 percentage points as mobility dropped 40%. From 23 March to 9 April, stocks recovered half their losses and mobility fell further. From 9 April to late May, both stocks and mobility rose modestly. This dynamic plays out across the 35 countries in our sample, with notable departures in China, South Korea and Taiwan. The size of the global stock market crash in reaction to the pandemic is many times larger than a standard asset-pricing model implies. Looking more closely at the world's two largest economies, the pandemic had greater effects on stock market levels and volatilities in the USA than in China even before it became evident that early US containment efforts would flounder. Newspaper-based narrative evidence confirms the dominant--and historically unprecedented--role of pandemic-related developments in the stock market behavior of both countries. JEL Classification E32 * E44 * E65 * G12 * G18 * 118, 1 Introduction Stock markets around the world cratered after mid-February 2020, as the Coronavirus pandemic spread beyond China. Value-weighted prices dropped 40% from 17 February to 23 March in the [...]

In 2006 Charles Schumer and Michael Bloomberg took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to express their concerns about New York. The senator and mayor both feared that [...]

Abstract I study the presence of order anticipation strategies by examining predictable patterns in large order trades. I construct three simple signals based on child-order execution patterns and find empirical [...]

The share price of Skechers U.S.A. Inc. was hurt by its most recent quarterly financial release. At least for a time. The Manilattan Beach footwear manufacturer saw its stock price [...]

A quantum walk down Wall Street FINANCE AND physics have long been productive bedfellows. When he wasn't writing the laws of mechanics and gravity, Isaac Newton ran the Royal Mint, [...]

AS UPFRONT SEASON BEGINS, television advertising sales executives are bullish, pointing to a strong economy and a rising stock market. In the annual commercial-buying bazaar last year, advertisers committed about [...]

IN PLACES WHERE it has been long absent, it is hard to remember what a curse inflation is. In other places, it is hard to forget it. Take Zimbabwe. In [...]

Byline: Rochester Business Journal StaffShould I get out of the stock market? That is a question I have been asked many times lately as stocks have gyrated wildly. The short [...]

ID July 2019, our final pre-pandemic summer, investors, analysts and at least a few journalists in a Little Rock newsroom were pondering a sudden spike in shares of publicly traded [...]

One question I asked all the interviewees for my book, 'Market Beaters,' was whether or not they tested only in support of preexisting ideas. I expected some disparity: while some [...]

Four executives from the investment industry discuss the opportunities that they see in the stock market. Their picks include stocks in the energy, technology, and health care industries.

Best's Research Market Segment Report: New Zealand Life Insurers Resilient Despite Regulatory Changes and Economic Headwinds New Zealand's life market remains robust despite the regulatory and economic changes, aggressive competition [...]

The opinions of experts and personalities who are known to have bear attitudes towards the economy were presented in the event 'A Night with the Bears' in Toronto on April 2009. Known 'bears' that served as resource persons in the vent were Nouriel Roubini, Eric Sprott, Ian Gordon, and Meredith Whitney. The 'bears' were observed to have differences regarding consumer debt.

Investment experts Fred Hickey, Mario Gabelli, Felix Zulauf, Oscar Schafer, Scott Black, Abby Joseph Cohen, Bill Gross, Archie MacAllaster, Meryl Witmer, Marc Faber give their view on the stock market and provide their stock picks. The panelists believe that stock prices have overshot corporate fundamentals and are due for a major bounce.

ABSTRACT The primary goal of this Article is to bring empirical evidence to bear on the heretofore largely theoretical law and economics debate about insider trading. The Article first summarizes [...]

A survey of portfolio managers on investment stocks showed that 55% think believes that the market is fairly valued at current levels, while 22% consider stocks overvalued. Bullish investors expect the Dow Jones Industrial Average to end the year at 14,318 above its October 9 peak of 14,164. Results of the Big Money Poll are presented.

The stock market in the fourth quarter of 2004 opened with a disappointing performance in the third quarter due to geopolitical concerns, high oil pries and reduced earnings growth. David Kovacs, portfolio manager at Turner Investments reported that the quarter would open with cheaper valuation and low bond yields in the stock market and earnings might be negative.