http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/07/investing/stocks-markets/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Quote :

"It was another record-setting day on Wall Street. This time, the Dow closed above 15,000 for the first time ever, hitting 15,056."

5/7/2013 9:02:24 PM

It's probably going to continue to go up for a bit more, probably at least another 400-500 points. There are so many people who are scrambling to get out of bonds and cash because of how terrible the return on them is. There are a lot of large pension funds and the like who are trying to dump bonds and cash in favor or equitites. I'm not sure that the market has a lot more actual value at this point, but there is no better place to have your money than in dividend yielding equities. Why put money in bonds with a 1.5% rate of return when plenty of stocks are paying a 3% dividend?

5/9/2013 1:33:40 AM

Because if the stock goes down more than 1.5% the bond would outperform the stock?

5/9/2013 7:52:38 AM

If they cut their dividend to 1.5% then yes. If it just lost 1.5% of its value and you held the stock then no.

5/9/2013 2:01:31 PM

If the stock's dividend stays at 3% but it's price drops by 10% that is negative roi.

5/9/2013 2:04:37 PM

Uh yeah. Surely you understand the difference between market value and yield

5/9/2013 6:36:02 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/video-half-second-high-frequency-trading_n_3245999.html

5/9/2013 6:58:19 PM

^that Nanex blog (or ongoing research page, whatever) has some seriously high level info and discussion. Its obvious why they need to keep producing these great visuals, without them it would be so much harder for normal folks like myself to really understand the problems they're illustrating.

5/10/2013 10:32:04 AM

Man its getting really ugly out there.

Fed reserve balance sheet is blowing up.

Japan ravaged everyone realizes its all over for them. Now we should be getting a tremendous capital infusion from the euro and yen destruction temporarily. So why are our bond markets getting roiled?

6/1/2013 1:37:58 PM

Told you we were screwed

6/20/2013 8:03:15 PM

Better stock up on gold!

6/20/2013 11:38:03 PM

ZOMG NASDAQ IMPLOSION!!!!!!111!!!






is this beginning of the collapse? or another "fat finger mistake"

[Edited on August 22, 2013 at 2:38 PM. Reason : "problem with quote dessimination" = Some algorithim just found the limits of quote bombing]

8/22/2013 2:26:16 PM

^lol, I think I meant quote stuffing


So I guess they are blaming it on an issue between NYSE and NASDAQ and reporting prices quickly enough?

I liked this:

http://blog.themistrading.com/the-real-story-of-why-nasdaq-halted-trading-yesterday/

Quote :

"No doubt the biggest disappointment of our new market structure has been the stock exchanges. As they desperately court HFT flow, they have neglected their regulatory responsibility and failed to keep up on their own technology. As HFT’s have demanded lower latency and more ways to race to the top of the book, the exchanges have compromised the entire market to win their business. The biggest losers however are not the exchanges. Instead, the biggest losers are us, the institutional and retail investors. We have to look on as our market integrity is destroyed by the short term profit motives of the exchanges and their high frequency clients. The US equity market, which was once the best model for capital raising and capital allocation, has now become the laughing stock of the world."

8/23/2013 12:44:40 PM

18,000

12/23/2014 10:15:33 AM

God Bless President Romney

12/23/2014 11:33:55 AM

dead live cat bounce



[Edited on December 23, 2014 at 12:11 PM. Reason : .]

12/23/2014 12:10:24 PM