At the beginning of the week, I proclaimed that the stock market, most specifically the Dow Jones, was going to go down based on how things had closed on the previous Friday. Therefore, imagine my surprise when the Dow ended the week up close to 400 points.
It’s a funny game, [...]
Today the Dow Jones was closed for President’s Day, but tomorrow it will open with a flourish, and the questions are which direction will it head after losing ground on Friday, although rallying back above 10,000 before the end of the day. I don’t do this often, and I hesitate [...]
This can’t be a surprise to anyone, but yesterday, the Dow Jones closed at 9,908.39, falling 104 points from last Friday. Supposedly, the market is falling because of three reasons. One, President Obama wants there to be a bit more regulation in watching what these guys do. Two, [...]
On Friday, the stock market took another big nose dive for the third day in a row. The Dow Jones dropped 217 points after President Obama’s speech, where he said that he wanted to have tougher regulations on banks that come up with tricks to help make their profits rise, [...]
There was an interesting article on CNN Money today. It was titled Is the market rally a hoax?.
The basic question the article addressed was why did the stock market go back up? It looked at real estate, the banking sector, utilities, unemployment and large organizations and says that [...]