The S&P futures are setting fresh 2009 highs after earnings from Intel and JPMorgan topped analyst expectations. In addition to positive Q3 earnings, U.S. Retail Sales printed stronger than anticipated while China's Trade Balance revealed a sizable improvement in both exports and imports. The vast i...

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as a surprise decline in existing home sales suggested an economic recovery would be slow, even as initial jobless claims dropped.

Prices in India's SENSEX have just broken above a downtrend line, imitating a pattern from 2004 that led to a strong rally. This interim report updates our wave count for India, since its wave pattern in particular may offer investors a rewarding long-term opportunity.

The performance of a number of global stock markets is given in the table below in local currency terms for different measurement terms ended June 30.

As private equity luminary Hugo Shong, founding general partner of China-based IDG Technology Venture Investment, noted at the recentWharton Global Alumni Forum in Beijing: "The IPO market is pretty much dead."

In China, the advent of large, foreign institutional buyout funds and venture capitalists has inexorably changed the economic landscape.

Ironically this headline could be applicable to any number of countries the past 10 weeks... of the BRIC countries, the "R" gives me the most quakes,

The South Korean stock market has finished lower in two of three sessions since the end of the three-day winning streak in which it gathered more than 100 points or 7.5 percent on its way to a six-month closing high. The KOSPI fell through support at 1,400 points - and while analysts say the market ...

The European markets rose for the first time in four days on Thursday, as a rally among banking stocks and better-than-expected results from companies such as Aegon, Portugal Telecom and Stada offset the losses suffered by the energy stocks.

RTTNews - The markets across the Asia-Pacific region tumbled on Thursday after dismal U.S. April retail sales and a troubling rise in home foreclosures made investors skeptical about the possibility of a quick global economic recovery. Besides, a fall in commodity prices and lower U.S. index futures...

Asian markets recovered partially and closed mixed on Tuesday amid continued profit taking following a strong rally last week. While a worse-than-expected Chinese trade data for April weighed on investor sentiment, markets in China and Hong Kong advanced on stronger-than-expected investment data.

Asian shares fell for a second straight session on Tuesday as some of the confidence that fueled a rally in stocks to seven-month highs was undermined by reports highlighting economic weakness.

Asian shares rose to their highest in seven months while the safe-haven dollar extended its decline on Monday, but warnings about an impending turnaround are growing amid weak corporate results and views that any global recovery will only be gradual.

By being long of GS and short an equal amount of MS, you eliminate the broad market and focus on the difference between the firms. Following this strategy in my weekly newsletter EPIC Insights, I recommend a long position in GS and a short position in MS as this week’s fundamental trade.

Airline stocks were down Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 130 points to 8,001 after the Air Transport Association posted its March passenger revenue fell 23 percent in the United States.

General Electric Co said Friday its quarterly profit fell 36 percent; however, shares rose on analyst rates despite wobbly and high demand in loan in the economic environment.

The US Treasury said Thursday it will sell $55 billion offering worth of 3-month and 6-month bills.

My internal indicators are currently bullish as of Friday last week. We retested the November low and got our tradable rally.

US Equities jumped on the “Easter Parade”, with financial posting a stellar rise after Wells Fargo, the 4th largest US bank, reported their 1st quarter earnings 10 days early.