Tag: Standard & Poor’s
What the Fed meeting means for the stock market
Jerome Powell The Fed chair will hold a press conference after the Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday. (Photo: AP) Frankfurt Many investors have had a black week. The US stock…
Spreading the risk in the portfolio with ETFs: Supplements to the MSCI World
Traders on Wall Street In order to spread the risk in the portfolio, it is helpful to look at the overlapping of indices and their statistical correlation. (Photo: AP) Frankfurt…
Anti-short trade fails this year
Beyond Meat According to the financial data provider S3 Partners, 37 percent of the freely tradable shares of the manufacturer of meat substitutes are now short. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf From…
US stock exchanges close in the red – fall in Netflix shares weighs on tech stocks
Frankfort, New York A week of heavy losses on the stock market ended again in the red for the US stock markets. The pressure emanating from the expected interest rate…
Correction mainly hits values from the second row
Dusseldorf Nasdaq minus nine percent, Dow Jones minus three and a half and Dax plus/minus zero. That’s the tally since Dec. 27, when global weakness in tech stocks began. “Investors…
US stocks on the up again as bargain hunters buy back into tech stocks after correction
Frankfort, New York The US stock exchanges closed in the red on Thursday after an initially friendly start. A sell-off set in in late trading. The US standard value index…
US stock markets end roller coaster ride in the red – interest rate concerns unsettle investors
Frankfort, New York The US stock exchanges closed in the red on Wednesday after a roller coaster ride. All three market barometers fell. The speculation about faster rate hikes by…
What the turning point in interest rates means
Federal eagle in front of the plenary hall of the Bundestag Investors will get interest again if they lend money to the federal government over the long term. (Photo: dpa)…
US stock markets under pressure – Activision Blizzard shares close after Microsoft offer with 27 percent in the plus
Frankfort, New York After the bank holiday long weekend, rising bond yields weighed heavily on US stock markets on Tuesday. Investors are increasingly expecting interest rate hikes by the US…
US stock markets open weak – Activision Blizzard shares rise 30 percent after Microsoft offer
Frankfort, New York Rate hike fears and disappointing corporate balance sheets are weighing on Wall Street. After the long weekend in the US, the US blue chip index Dow Jones…
The great nervousness before the turnaround in interest rates
Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Most investors expect the 10-year Bund yield to settle into positive territory soon. (Photo: Getty Images; Per-Anders Pettersson) Frankfurt Actually, Jerome Powell said it…
What distinguishes the current high valuations from the dot-com bubble
Nasdaq advert in Times Square, New York The US mega-corporations Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Tesla, Nvidia and Netflix have a high weight in the world’s leading stock index S&P…
US stock markets open weak – Activision Blizzard shares rise 30 percent after Microsoft offer
Frankfort, New York Rate hike fears and disappointing corporate balance sheets are weighing on Wall Street. After the long weekend, the leading indices Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S&P 500 each…
Dax is slipping – the bond market is about to turn around in interest rates
Dax curve The leading German index had reached several new record highs in the last stock market year. (Photo: Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf A directional decision is in the…
Dax is slipping – the bond market is about to turn around in interest rates
Dax curve The leading German index had reached several new record highs in the last stock market year. (Photo: Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf A directional decision is in the…
Only a panic-like sell-off should end the weak phase
Bull and bear in front of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange The past few trading days have been extremely nerve-wracking for investors. How will it go on? (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf After…
Dax & dates in the daily stock market report
Dusseldorf The end of the past week should have given a foretaste of the new trading week: due to the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the corona virus,…
Bank balance sheets cloud sentiment on Wall Street – Dow Jones closes in the red
NYC The “Fearless Girl” on New York’s Wall Street (Photo: AP) new York At the start of the US reporting season, quarterly figures and outlooks from some US financial groups…
Weak bank balance sheets are dampening sentiment on Wall Street
NYC The “Fearless Girl” on New York’s Wall Street (Photo: AP) new York A botched start to the US accounting season caused long faces among investors on Friday. The big…
Dax closes below 16,000 points again – disappointing figures from US banks
Dax curve The leading German index had reached several new record highs in the last stock market year. (Photo: Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images [M]) Dusseldorf For two days in a row,…