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10 Clues the Stock Market is About to Crash Again

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently off 7% from its April high and has broken decisively down through its 50 Day Moving Average — the Federal Reserve and economist have also described this...

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Pandora Shares Plunge Below IPO Price as Stock Crashes

Shares of online radio firm Pandora Media Inc. plummeted on their second day of trading as the Pandora IPO date departed and investors suddenly fled for the exits. BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield this...

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Panic Selling or Bear Market Coming?

Is the August 4th, 2011 stock market signaling the kind of “Panic Selling” that contrarians look for in forecasting the end of a decline or has a August 2011 “Bear Market” just started? The Aden...

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Dow Jones Stock Market Still 30% Overvalued

Whenever the stock market plunges for several days it reminds us the stock market crash in October 1929, which triggered the 12-year great depression that hit all the western industrialized nations....

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18 Trading Strategies for a Stock Market Crash

From August 1 through August 10, when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index plunged 13.3 percent amid surging volatility, high-frequency firms tripled their volume and may have accounted for 75 percent...

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Gold Bubble 2011 now Bursting and Crashing

Gold has been plunging in New York on speculation that financial markets may be stabilizing, eroding the appeal of the precious metal as a safe haven. Bullion has tumbled from a record $1,917.90 an...

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Rogue Trader Causes $2 billion Loss at UBS Bank

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday September 15, 2011 that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of ($2 billion), stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to...

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Netflix Stock NFLX Crashes 48% Over the Past 2 Months

In July 2011, Netflix (Stock Symbol: NFLX) raised its prices, saying its business model had changed considerably from its early days of sending DVDs back and forth to customers by post in ubiquitous...

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October 2011 S&P 500 Edges Towards Bear Market Territory

If we get through the dreaded month of October 2011 without a Black Monday or Black Friday market crash, then we’ll have plenty to be thankful for come November 2011. According to one market watcher,...

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The Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Inflation

The retail cost of menu items for a classic Thanksgiving Dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings increased about 13 percent this year, according to the...

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Black Friday Special Deals Stock List

Black Friday is quickly approaching, so it is time to look at companies that could benefit from the shopping mania taking place that day. Traditionally, technology and fashion retailers have attracted...

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Stock Market Crash in the Very Near Future

The vast majority of retail and institutional investors say they’re terrified there will be another stock market crash in the very near future, a new survey shows — and that actually bodes well for...

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The Coming 32% Stock Market Crash of 2012

Last week, the benchmark S&P 500 Index fell just shy of 5 per cent in five days and now investors are wondering — does the liquidity-fueled rally in the US Stock Market resume? From October 2011...

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High Frequency Trading now Turning Bearish and Looking for a Summer 2012...

The six month surging stock market rally has nothing to do with any signs of a economic turnaround on Main Street analysts say — the disconnect in the number of shares being traded proves this. The...

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Stock Market Crash Like in 1987 to Happen Again in 2012

The stock market may plunge in the second half of the year like the “1987 Stock Market Crash” if the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index climbs without further stimulus from the Federal Reserve, said Marc...

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Market Rumor is Pimco and JP Morgan Halt Vacations to Prepare for Economic...

On June 1, 2012 — market rumors were coming out of a hedge fund luncheon stating that Pimco, JP Morgan, and other financial companies were canceling summer vacations for employees so they could...

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Bank of England Prepares for Euro Collapse

David Cameron hosted a meeting with Mervyn King yesterday to prepare the Bank of England for the Collapse of the Euro and discuss contingency plans. Measures could include cutting interest rates or...

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2013-2014 Great Recession or Great Depression to Collapse U.S. Economy

This year, an election year, will be a decent one for the economy although a recession will strike and strike hard in 2013 or in 2014 at the latest, says international investor Jim Rogers, CEO and...

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Unemployment Rate and Lack of Jobs Creation Push the Great Depression II in...

The causes and nature of the first Depression have been studied extensively. It has become increasingly obvious that there were a series of events that collided to bring forth the “Great Depression.”...

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Historical Daily Gold Data Download

The Gold Market has been so frustrating of late that even some contrarians are throwing in the towel. After hitting a bull market high last September at over $1,900 an ounce, gold bullion fell more...

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Arena Pharmaceuticals up 578% YTD Even After Its Bear Raid Last Month

On June 22, 2012, shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals (Ticker Symbol: ARNA) experienced significant volatility and although there was no specific news on Arena Pharmaceuticals, there had been some market...

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Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Stock Crashes on Weak Revenue

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) shares continued to plummet after the burrito restaurant chain reported second-quarter sales below Wall Street expectations late Thursday, prompting several downgrades on...

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2013 Great Depression Parallels the 1930’s

The current crisis in Europe has now gone well beyond the prospect of breaking up the EURO to the threat of a full-fledged financial and economic collapse in Europe that could plunge the world into a...

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Dollar Tree Stock Plunges 18% After Flash Crash Drops the Stock

Dollar Tree (Stock Symbol: DLTR) discount retailer that sells everything for $1 or less, suffered a mini “Flash Crash” in the first two seconds after the open on Thursday August 16, 2012. The stock...

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Yahoo YHOO Stock Price After the 2000 Dot.Com Bubble Stock Market Crash

In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named “Jerry’s guide to the world wide web”. David and Jerry’s Guide to the World...

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Amazon.com AMZN Stock Price After the 2000 Dot.Com Bubble Stock Market Crash

Amazon.com (Ticker Symbol: AMZN) is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world’s largest online retailer. The...

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VIX Signaling Increased Volatility for October 2012

One of the market’s measurements for investor sentiment suggests growing investor worry, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to panic. The Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Volatility Index, called the VIX...

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Is the October 2012 Stock Market Crash-Proof?

When it comes to wealth suddenly disappearing, October can be diabolically frightful. The stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression occurred in October. So did the 22.6% plunge...

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Apple Shares Crash Further After Holiday Warning

Apple’s stock (Stock Symbol: AAPL) fell below $600 per share on Friday October 26, 2012 for the first time in three months, after the consumer electronics behemoth warned that costs of making new...

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Stock Market Sentiment and Technical Analysis Mirrors the Worst Bear Market...

In January 1973, a financial magazine published the stock market outlooks of a select group of professional investors. All agreed: Market prices are headed higher. Yet in that very month, the stock...

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Bear Market Started October 9, 2012

Will the bull market come to an end on October 9, 2012 and usher in a new bear market? Don’t laugh, it turns out that two of the most prominent market turning points of the last decade occurred on...

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The Wednesday Before Thanksgiving and the Black Friday After Thanksgiving are...

The S&P 500 will decline 20 percent from its September high of 1,470 points to around 1,176 points. Poor quarterly earnings from corporate giants such as Amazon (Ticker Symbol: AMZN), McDonald’s...

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Long Term Crash on Biotech OXiGENE – OXGN up Over 200% in 9 Trading Days

OXiGENE (Stock Symbol: OXGN) climbed over 14% to $5.60 per share on May 12, 2011, with volume soaring to more than 10 million shares trading hands, up from its average daily volume of just 892,077...

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Are Social Networking Stocks Ready For a 2011 Crash?

The share price of the professional social networking company more than doubled in its first day of trading on May 19 after its initial public offering price at $45 a share. Investors who believe...

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Former High Flying Stock Coffee Holding Co has Become Decaffeinated

Shares in the Staten Island-based java distributor Coffee Holding Co. (Stock Symbol: JVA) have sunk by a third in the past few days, trading at $19.79 a share at Friday’s close. The stock in this...

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US Debt Credit Rating Downgraded by S&P

A major rating agency last night “Downgraded the Nation’s Credit Rating” for the first time in history, after a wild day on Wall Street that saw stocks swing from triple-digit gains to triple-digit...

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Groupon IPO Back on Track With Stock Symbol GRPN?

Groupon seeks to go public in October 2011 or November 2011, people familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday, a week after the daily deals website put its IPO on hold for a few...

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2011 Stock Market Performing Like 1973 Again

Elliott Wave Theorist’s Bob Prechter is comparing the 1973 stock market to the 2011 stock market — calling the situation very like that of 1973 — the stock market has been in a two-year bear market...

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2013 Margin Debt Ratio at Pre 2000 and 2007 Stock Market Crashes

Margin debt is the money people borrow from their stockbrokers to expand their holdings of shares. The margin debt ratio is now 70%, meaning with $3,000 you can borrow $10,000 dollars worth of shares....

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Stocks Have hit New Highs in 2013 — Time for a Market Crash?

Since the market low in 2009, every move upward has been greeted with confident assertions that another crash was just around the corner. At some point, market gurus have assured us, this sucker’s...

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Positioning Your Portfolio for the Next Stock Market Crash

Recently there have been a wide variety of reports and opinions regarding where the stock market is heading next. Some analysts have predicted a severe market crash worse than the one that occurred...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average Breaks 10 Day Streak of Gains

After rising for the past 10 days, the Dow ended modestly lower Friday March 15, 2013 following a surprise drop in a measure of consumer confidence. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3%, ending...

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Dow Jones Industrials All-Time Highs and What Happened Afterwards

So the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke a record in March 2013 — now what? It’s impossible to predict how the Dow, that popular barometer of the stock market, will zigzag from here. The only thing...

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Expert: Apple Stock to Hit $274 in 3 to 6 Months

Edward Zabitsky, CEO of ACI Research in Toronto is one of the earliest bears on Apple (Ticker Symbol: AAPL) stock, rated Apple stock a “sell” in 2010 — at around $200 a share and even called a top in...

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Signs of a 2013 Spring Correction for the Stock Market

Is the stock market headed for another spring swoon? It’s happened in each of the past three years, and a growing number of market watchers say it’s likely to happen again in 2013. The warnings are...

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Preparing for the Stock Market Crash Nobody is Predicting

Stock market declines, especially the violent kind we refer to as “crashes,” are pretty hard to predict — for every crash one or two visionaries emerge who called the market decline with unusual...

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How Hedge Funds Brace for Stock Market Crashes

Investors do worry about stock market crashes when stocks have rallied such as the case in 2013, but what retail investors should do is try to learn what the professionals do with their clients’ money...

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Procter & Gambles Mini Flash Crash

Procter & Gamble (Ticker Symbol: PG) stock dived 5 percent and then snapped back instantly on Friday August 30, 2013 — the stock took the dip on an errant trade, P&G’s director of investor...

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Stock Market Crash Similar to 1987 is Coming

Fears over US monetary tightening, rate hikes, and recession triggered the 1987 stock market crash, and there are parallels with today’s market environment, said Société Générale’s Albert Edwards. In...

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1987 Type Stock Crash Predicted for 2014

The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the recent global economic recession believes the worst crash in decades will take place later in the next 12 months. Dr Marc Faber, a Swiss...

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