Given all that transpired globally over the Thanksgiving weekend, the idea of holding risky assets like stocks should give investors heartburn. Perhaps a strong Black Friday weekend and holiday selling season will draw traders’…
Investors may be most thankful that this is a quick week. The market is closed for Thanksgiving and will log just a half-day on Black Friday, but from today through Wednesday, traders will face a heavy slate of economic data an…
Beyond the next series of economic indicators, what really matters now is a strong holiday selling season. If it materializes, that could pole-vault the market to new highs, making 12,000 on the Dow by year-end well within reac…
Calls for a dip are understandably rising amid signs that the market is overbought. But evidence of performance-chasing, where fund managers who are lagging their peers take on more risk in hopes of outsize returns, are also mo…
Stocks don’t move in a straight line, and a relatively light week of earnings reports and economic data should give the market a much-needed break after the major indexes have run up to two-year highs. But long-term, the direct…