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NEWS ABOUT: bull market

bull market stories: 7 news summaries
OPINION

This Rally Is for Suckers, Courtesy of the Fed


May 12, 09 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Dow has soared a whopping 30% since March 9, but Andy Kessler doesn’t think the good times are here again. “This sure smells to me like a sucker’s rally,” he writes in the Wall Street Journal. Earnings aren’t up. The market is just... More »

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Ben Bernanke • stock market • Federal Reserve • Treasury Department • bear market • bull market • stress tests

 Soaring Iraq Stock Market 
 Gets Electronic Trading 

Booming exchange will do away with writing prices on whiteboards

Mar 27, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stock traders in Baghdad are preparing for a bonanza: the introduction of electronic trading, which will replace the current system of writing prices on whiteboards, reports the Times of London. Iraq's market has risen 30% this year as improved security and dirt-cheap prices—the most expensive stock costs about 9... More »

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Iraq • technology • Baghdad • stock exchange • bull market

MARKETS

 Asia, Europe 
 Follow US Rally 

Nikkei posts biggest gain in 6 weeks

Mar 11, 09 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday's big day on Wall Street sparked a bull run on Asian markets today, with the Nikkei posting its biggest rise in 6 weeks, Reuters reports. The Tokyo exchange surged 4.6% off a 26-year closing low, with Toshiba and other tech stocks leading advances. Markets in Europe opened down... More »

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Nikkei • Asian markets • bull market • Toshiba • Dow

 Is a Bull Market on the Horizon? 

Lower rates and commodity prices and stocks that looks cheap could trigger a run

Oct 9, 08 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apocalyptic attitudes abound, but weed through the financial doom and gloom and you'll find a few economists who think we've bottomed out, and that a bull market is up next, writes Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times. The Dow has dropped 34.6% in the last year, but recent... More »

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stock market • bear market • bull market • Wharton School of Business • commodity prices • financial crisis

 Volatile Market
 Hooked on
 Testosterone 

Study pinpoints role of bullish hormone in boorish traders

Apr 15, 08 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The buying and selling of the world's wealth is at the mercy of aggressive men and their hormonal fluctuations, neuroscientists have discovered. While that doesn't come as a big surprise, the study isolates the major role that testosterone plays in making boorish traders exceptionally bullish—and the part the hormone... More »

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stock market • Wall Street • men • testosterone • hormones • bear market • bull market • masculinity • risky trading • medical study • hormone therapy

Goldman Sachs Switches Forecasters

'Belle of the bull market' Cohen has more pessimistic successor

Mar 18, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Goldman Sachs has replaced its famously bullish chief forecaster, Abby Joseph Cohen,  with a less upbeat analyst, Bloomberg reports. Cohen will remain as senior investment strategist, handing over the daily predictions to David Kostin. Kostin sees a decline for the S&P 500 to 1160 in the short run,... More »

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Goldman Sachs • financial markets • recession • markets • bear market • bull market • Standard and Poor

5 Signs That Augur the Fall of the Bull

A look at reliable indicators that the bear market is ascendant

Aug 20, 07 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - After reaching a high in mid-July, the Dow has taken a sharp downturn. But how do you know when the bloom is off the rose? Here are Money magazine's five signs that usually precede a fall:
  1. Sudden surge in oil prices
  2. Treasury yields run up
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stock market • economics • list • crash • US economy • bear market • bull market

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