^GSPC - S&P 500
| Previous Close | 3,325.54 |
| Open | 3,333.10 |
| Volume | 2,106,787,710 |
| Day's Range | 3,281.53 - 3,333.18 |
| 52 Week Range | 2,624.06 - 3,337.77 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,559,269,016 |
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Earnings extravaganza, FOMC meeting, GDP: What to know in the week ahead
Several events with market-moving potential will test markets this week.
- Barrons.com
Boeing’s Huge 777X Jet Has Landed. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Boeing took the focus off the 737 MAX Saturday as its newest-model 777 jet, the 777X, completed its maiden flight in Washington state.
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Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’
Eric Toner is a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and was a part of a simulation, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, that posited such a disease could kill 65 million people within 18 months.
- Barrons.com
Dogs of the Dow Can Beat the Stock Market. ‘Fast Dogs’ Can Do the Same.
The Dogs of the Dow beat stock market averages during the decade just ended. How do fast dogs—the stocks with the fastest dividend growth—perform?
- Barrons.com
Brown University Is a Major Shareholder in a Slumping Stock
The Ivy League school owns more than $100 million in Owl Rock Capital stock, which has dropped 11% so far in January. Brown also disclosed big positions in LIberty Broadband, Brookfield Asset Management, and DocuSign stock.
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A Giant Bank Bought Beyond Meat Stock and Sold Tesla Before Their 2020 Rallies
Commerzbank of Germany increased its share holdings in the plant-based burger maker by more than six times in the fourth quarter. The bank also bought up Microsoft stock and sold GE.
- Financial Times
How will investors get to grips with the coronavirus threat?
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, already buffeted by the US-China trade war and local protests, has taken the biggest knock. Over the past week it has fallen by 3.8 per cent, just ahead of China’s CSI 300, which lost 3.5 per cent. Stock exchanges in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand, all of which have reported cases of the contagion, also sank. Wall Street retreated on Friday after health officials reported a second case of coronavirus in the US, handing the S&P 500 its steepest drop in more than three months.
- Financial Times
Investors pull $43bn from hedge funds in 2019
Hedge funds suffered more than $40bn of investor withdrawals last year even though the industry delivered its best annual performance for a decade. Hedge funds returned 10.4 per cent, net of fees, in 2019, according to the data provider HFR, well below the 31.5 per cent return posted by the S&P 500, the main US equity benchmark. Hedge fund managers frequently complain that the S&P 500 is an inappropriate performance yardstick given the variety of their strategies that invest across a wide range of asset classes globally.
- MarketWatch
Avoid these 12 deadly sins when saving for retirement
Want to improve your investment results? The deadly sins below are not only among the most serious financial transgressions, but also they’re among the most common. Pride: Thinking you can beat the market by picking individual stocks, selecting actively managed funds or timing the market.
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This basket of dividend growth stocks can help your portfolio stand out in 2020
These stocks have low price-to-earnings valuations relative to the S&P 500 that also appear likely to continue raising their dividend payouts more quickly than the broad market.
- MarketWatch
Tesla will mark the beginning of the end for this bull market, warns Ralph Nader
Tesla shares — unsafe at any speed? Apparently so, according to the consumer advocate and former presidential candidate, who issued a stark warning this week, not only on the pricey stock, but on the market as a whole.
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How the stock market has performed during past viral outbreaks, as epidemic locks down 16 Chinese cities
U.S. equity markets have experienced downbeat trade this past week as investors keep one eye trained on a deadly flu outbreak in China.
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One of the most successful stock-market investors says these 3 events ‘would definitely trigger a bear market’
Stanley Druckenmiller, one of Wall Street’s most successful investors, acknowledges that the markets are riding high and that investors may be able to finally breathe in the short term after a number of shocks, but says investors should be wary of three events that could knock assets into a bear market.
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Bill Gates says he’s happy to pay $20 billion in taxes, but Warren’s plan will make him ‘do a little math on what I have left over’
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, waded deep in to the hotly debated topic of taxing the wealthy to redistribute money to the have-nots — a contentious issue that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of as she bids to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.
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Don’t worry about an overbought stock market because the Fed is here to help
Today’s stock market invites an easy comparison with 1999 after the S&P 500 Index has rallied for some 13 months. Some stocks look bubbleicious, but I do not believe the stock market is in bubble territory. Look at many marijuana stocks and you will see what I mean.
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How an external event could stunt U.S. stocks
History does not always repeat itself in the stock market, but it is always instructive. There is a mania going on in the stock market, but not in the terms you would think. Before you send me hate mail for raining on the parade, remember that The Arora Report gave a signal to buy stocks on Donald Trump’s election when many analysts were saying sell.
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Why the coronavirus outbreak could trigger a stock-market pullback
The spread of the potentially deadly coronavirus could be the catalyst for a near-term stock-market pullback, analysts say.
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‘The president did absolutely nothing wrong’: Trump’s lawyers kick off impeachment defense
President Donald Trump’s lawyers began delivering their opening arguments in his historic impeachment trial on Saturday, telling senators the president “did absolutely nothing wrong” and charging that Democrats are trying to keep the Republican off the ballot in the upcoming election.
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Cannabis experts are hoping 2020 will be the year that New York finally legalizes weed
Cannabis advocates are cautiously optimistic that 2020 will be the year that New York state finally legalizes cannabis for adult recreational use, marking a major milestone for the legal business.
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Apple has soared out of the value realm, but you may still be able to find success on this stock list
DEEP DIVE It’s happening again: The financial media is touting a potential shifting of investors to value stocks from the growth stocks that have propelled the extended bull market in the U.S. This last happened in September and October, though the value buzz ended up being short-lived.
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Facebook earnings preview: Ready for another strong quarter
Despite a challenging regulatory environment, growing antitrust scrutiny, ad targeting headwinds, the social media behemoth is poised to announce strong second-quarter results.
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Wells Fargo worker says employment at the bank was more stressful than Gulf war military service
One way in which the sales-practices scandal that shook Wells Fargo & Co. in 2016 was worse than you think.
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Legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones says market today is like early ’99, driven by ‘insane monetary policy’
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones is nothing short of flabbergasted by economic and monetary policy coming from Washington. It reminds me a lot of early ’99 [when inflation was low and stock markets were soaring].
- MarketWatch
These 5 charts show the debate over whether the stock market set up for another dot-com crash
Stocks are either near valuations seen during the dot-com bubble in 2000, or are reasonably priced relative to history
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This money manager says growth stocks are still your best play, and he has the math to back it up
Tom Plumb of Wisconsin Capital Management says growth-stock valuations aren’t overly high and expects investors to keep paying up for the most successful companies.
