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Comment In the block above, we highlighted how earnings estimates are being gamed and have become more inaccurate in recent years. If earnings estimates are no longer a good tool in predicting economic activity or market movements, can company...
MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – Silver ETF Unshockingly Sets Volume Record ETF Securities USA announced today that its silver ETF, ETFS Silver Trust, ticker SIVR, experienced record one-day trading volume of 5.25 million shares on May 5 and a record...
Comment This is an update from last month: The table below shows the results of Bloomberg’s survey of economists. It details economists’ expectations for 10-year Treasury yields over the next six months. For those familiar with this survey, we...
<Click on chart for larger image> MarketWatch.com – Citi’s reverse split has tiny impact on volume Moving from worst to just bad, the NYSE composite volume is the trading volume of all the issues who are members of the NYSE. This is...
The Wall Street Journal – Citigroup Instantly Becomes a $40 Stock Citigroup, the heaviest-traded U.S. stock that accounted for 6.8% of total U.S. stock trading volume last year, drastically shrunk its share count. The move instantly erased its...
The New York Times – Response to Volatility in Silver Takes Hold On April 25, half a dozen officials from the CME Group, which runs many of the nation’s commodities exchanges, met via videophone to discuss the eye-popping rise in the price of...
The Wall Street Journal – Mark Gongloff: A ‘Buy’ Sign for Treasurys? Some Bet End of QE2 Will Be Boon to Bonds The recent rally is evidence for some investors that the end of the Fed’s second big bond-buying program, known...
The Wall Street Journal – Silver Slips Below $40, Spooks Other Markets Silver plunged for a third consecutive day, ending below $40 for the first time in almost a month as investors continued to bail out of the market due to higher trading...
CNBC.com – Fed Still Lacks ‘Exit Strategy,’ but Talks Are Heating Up Federal Reserve officials held intense talks about exit strategies at their last meeting, with policymakers divided over whether to sell billions of dollars of...
MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – Stocks and Bonds: Which Market is Wrong? As MarketBeaters know, stocks and Treasury bonds have been telling different stories lately. They still are. Investors are again bidding up the price of Uncle Sam’s IOUs Monday....
The Wall Street Journal – Mark Gongloff: Inflation? Numbers Show Faith in Fed Ben Bernanke held the first postpolicy-meeting news conference by a Federal Reserve chairman in part to bolster confidence that the Fed remained committed to...
The Financial Times – Modest expectations Thursday sees the first estimate of US gross domestic product for the first quarter. So has the market followed the habits of the past year and overshot? Out of the last 12 monthly GDP reports, the market...