The top seven reasons U.S. stocks are up since early June despite lackluster earnings, higher jobless claims and more worrying signs from Europe.
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Rising jobless claims could threaten cyclical stock sectors. One contrary indicator, though, is that several Covestor managers recently bought retail stocks.
Market pessimism is at its lowest point since August 2010, based on the latest from AAII. That could help the S&P 500 possibly make a run at year highs.
Maybe the market would benefit just as much if it were not to get the quantitative easing round that so many investors want.
Money managers are turning dour on the economy, based on the latest BofA poll. Yet market sentiment has not reached extremes.
The Wall Street Journal introduces a new dollar index that offers improvements over the others already out there -- at least in theory.
Big banks allowing hedge funds to try to front-run analyst recommendation changes is akin to other practices the SEC has cracked down on just this year.
The next-generation iPhone will use in-cell technology and have a thinner screen, the WSJ reports, helping it to play catch-up to Samsung.
The U.S. is "approaching recession", says Pimco's Bill Gross, joining a slate of negative economists who have dropped their GDP estimates.
The hiring of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo's CEO comes as the biggest executive announcement of 2012. Here are three reasons to think she can meet the challenge:
Tyler Kocon just swapped out some well-known names in his investment models, making room for two gas-related stocks he thinks might fare better going forward.