Stock markets

Cisco 2008 fiscal year results: Rapid entry into lateral markets may help Cisco improve its growth rate

According to RBC Capital Markets, rapid entry into lateral markets may help Cisco to improve on its growth rate following the release of Cisco 4th quarter and fiscal year 2008 results. RBC Capital Markets Managing Director - Mark Sue commented to yours truly: "It's tough out there, no question." "Yet Cisco's portfolio approach and diversification across geographies and product segments seem to be working well as evidenced by its strong revenue growth of $10.36B (+10% YoY)." "Book-to-bill was co...

10 signs the stock market may have bottomed

(Photo: Toru Hanai/Reuters) The following is a condensation of an analysis issued earlier this week by McLean and Partners of Calgary. It doesn’t necessarily reflect my own view of where the market has going. Personally, I have no strong opinion on the probable short term move of stocks, or interest rates, or commodities or particular economic or geographical sectors. Certainly there are any number of gloomier prognostications floating around, from John Mauldin to Richard Russell to Peter Gra...

Wall Street spooked by GM loss

U.S. stock futures gave up much of their early gains Friday following a whopping loss by automaker General Motors, while investors braced for the government's monthly reading on employment.

Choppy day on Wall Street ends in rally

The stock market on Wednesday posted strong gains for the second-straight session after fluctuating for most the the day.

Missouri paper cuts printed stock listings

The Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri announced Saturday that it was cutting its printed stock listings in its paper, switching to the AP’s Money & Markets offering. Justin Willett wrote, “As part of this change, we no longer will publish A-Z listings in the print edition. Instead, you can find a link to more than 2,300 [...]

Oil gets a lift from stock selloff

Oil turned higher Thursday as economic jitters and a stock market selloff drew investors.

Stock Market Performance Round-up: Dancing to the Same Tune

This post is a guest contribution by Prieur du Plessis, writer of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. Factoring in last week's stock market rebound, I have put together a table of global stock markets' performances - over various measurement periods and in both local currency and US dollar terms. The numbers speak for themselves and can best be summarized in a single sentence: Despite the variation in the economic impact of the credit crunch, stock markets have by and large been dancin...

What advisors are telling clients about global stock market rout

So far, 2008 has been one of those years that financial advisors have earned their keep by "holding hands" with clients spooked about volatile stock markets in North America and the rest of the world. Their biggest challenge is in getting retail investors to "stick to the program" they agreed to when they first sat down to discuss their long-term financial goals. Typically, this is laid out in an Investment Policy Statement, or IPS. This is designed to reflect a particular investor's risk tolera...

Rusty Kelley, Christian Financial Managment

With all the turmoil in today’s financial markets, crashes in the stock market, layoffs in corporate America and pain every time we fill up our cars at the gas station, the topic of financial management comes up more often than...

No Easy Money On The Worlds' Stock Markets These Days

But isn't it great to hear the sound of speculators losing billions of dollars on market volatility. Has oil topped out? Have financials bottomed out? Has stagflation set in? On and on, investors ask economists and financial gurus these questions. The experts look into their "crystal balls" and come up with the usual long or short winded explanations of what is happening and what is going to happen. This fortunetelling makes good press releases, but it really doesn't tell anyone whether we're go...