Stocks Rise as Focus Turns to Earnings After Syria: Markets Wrap

Stocks Rise as Focus Turns to Earnings After Syria: Markets Wrap. By. Sarah Ponczek. @SarahPonczek More stories by Sarah Ponczek. April 15, 2018, 2:47 PM PDT Updated on April 16, 2018, 9:51 AM PDT. Traders show calm in aftermath of U.S.-led missile attack. Oil declines as shale concern lingers and Syria fears …

At a steady ~10% off its highs, investors can view this market as offering a good time for either shrewd accumulation or wise liquidation. (See “This Stock Market Is Providing Too Many ‘Closeout Sale’ Days – So, Raise Some Cash” for more discussion. See updated stock market graphs at end of this article.).

Still, should the trend hold, it would be bad news for anyone hoping earnings would calm markets where turbulence has by some measures doubled from the last two years. Jim Paulsen, Leuthold Group’s chief investment strategist, says the reactions are a sign stocks got ahead of themselves and remain …

Kraken, one of the world’s longest-operating cryptocurrency exchanges, will end its trading services for Japanese residents. The San Francisco-based company cited the rising costs of doing business in Japan for its decision, though it said it may re-enter the country in the future. It tentatively plans to cease …

Assets in tail-risk funds have grown to $4.9 billion from $3.2 billion in 2011, according to Eurekahedge Pte Ltd. In 2011, the year of the Greek crisis, tail-risk funds boasted the top-performing strategy, but as markets rallied in the six following years they suffered the steepest losses of any hedge-fund style …

Google’s $2.4 billion purchase of the Chelsea Market building, one of the highest-priced office sales in the city’s history, helped those numbers. But other large deals also closed, such as the $700 million acquisition of the 3.25-acre St. John’s Terminal site by Oxford Properties Group and Canada Pension …

The markets not up much more than it was when I checked in for the last update, but the composition has changed. Telecom is still the top performer, but Materials have jumped to number two, and Consumer Staples have flown into number three thanks to the news that Amazon.com (AMZN) isn’t moving …

One method of analyzing the investment of electric cars by shareholders is to divide a company’s market capitalization by the number of cars sold. Under that analysis, the level of market cap per vehicle should be determined by the automaker’s pricing power and the growth in the number of electric vehicles …

As a Goldman Sachs quant researcher, Emanuel Derman published a seminal research paper back in 1999 in which he said that there were volatility regimes. Sometimes volatility was low, sometimes it was high, and one would transition from one regime to the next. Financial markets experienced such a …