Ebay coined the term Green Monday to refer to its best sales day in December, which is usually the second Monday of the month. The term has come to be used generally in e-commerce circles to describe that traditionally heavy online shopping day. As described in this BuySight infographic based on ComScore data, this year’s Green Monday will likely break the record for online sales – though a planned free shipping day on Friday, December 17 should also be huge:
News of slower job growth, slowing wage growth, and a slight uptick in unemployment helped drive down Treasury yields, and stocks finished the short week with a strong rally
Is the bear market over? That’s a question I’ve been asked a number of times in recent weeks, and my answer is the same: let’s give it a little time.
It’s sometimes hard to conceptualize the difference between these two very large investing figures. Here’s some help.
Over the last year, both indexes have almost been perfectly correlated.
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