Markets
Beware Value Traps When S&P Index shows ‘Everything’ is Cheap
Every industry in the S&P 500 looks like a value relative to the historical average of its forward price-earnings ratio, according to Bank of America ……Read More
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Hot Plus Cold Not Doesn’t Equal Just Right
Capital markets have lately been incorporating that hot Asia plus cold industrial countries concurrently do not become equal to just right, without a workout that ……Read More
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Dividend Aristocrats Index rises
The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, which according to Standard & Poor’s highlights the "true blue-chip companies” with a "policy of increasing dividends,” have been ……Read More
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Ben Bernanke speaks and Dow Jones surges
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that the economic outlook remained "unusually uncertain." Tell that to America’s manufacturing base, which is seeing a pick-up ……Read More
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Company earnings already begin to disappoint
It’s the first heavy week of earnings season with nearly half of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and more than one-fifth of the S&P 500 ……Read More
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More foreign money flows into Canadian securities
Non-residents investment in Canadian securities strengthened substantially in May with foreign inflows amounting to $23.2 billion, most notably for federal government debt instruments. Meanwhile, Canadian investors sold $2.9 billion ……Read More