February 4, 2020 @ 6:40 pm | Breaking News |
As of 1 p.m. in New York the Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 1.61% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 1.59%. The NASDAQ Composite had climbed 1.94% and the Russell 2000 small cap index had gained 1.68%. Overseas the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets...
February 3, 2020 @ 6:44 pm | Breaking News |
Selling in Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares, which trade on those two mainland China exchanges with limits on overseas ownership, drove prices on those two exchanges lower today with the Shanghai Composite down 7.72% and Shenzhen A shares down 8.41% at the close. This...
February 2, 2020 @ 9:47 pm | Breaking News |
The CSI 300 Index (of the 300 largest stocks traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange) plunged as much as 9.1% on Monday morning as the Shanghai Stock Exchange opened for trading for the first time since January 23. By 10:15 a.m. Monday in Shanghai (9:15 p.m. in New York...
February 1, 2020 @ 10:09 pm | Breaking News |
That 4.8% growth in the first quarter would come after 6% growth in the fourth quarter of 2019. The bank also cut its forecast for growth for the full 2020 year to 5.5% from 5.8%. Granted this is just one forecast at a time of extreme uncertainty. But I would note...
February 1, 2020 @ 6:45 pm | Breaking News |
The big event of the week will take place at the very beginning of the week when the Shanghai Stock Exchange reopens for trading after being closed for a week for the New Year’s holiday. Mainland Chinese investors have been left on the sidelines unable to trade...
January 31, 2020 @ 7:26 pm | Breaking News |
The Shanghai Stock Exchange can be extremely volatile. Which is one reason that investors and traders are moving to the sidelines in U.S. and overseas markets today ahead of the reopening of the Shanghai exchange on Monday. So how volatile is volatile? The comparison...