Technicals and fundamentals are Jim Cramer’s key tools for determining when a stock is ready to explode. “Typically, when a stock gets overbought, it is ripe for a pullback because overbought stocks, ones with many buyers reaching to take in supply, tend to snap back after they have gotten too far away from their longer […]
Read moreJim Cramer likes to work with a combination of analyzing both fundamentals and charts to spot the next big moves in the market. Charts are especially helpful for determining the best entry and exit points in a stock, which is why Cramer waits to pull the trigger on a stock until after he looks at […]
Read moreJim Cramer may not be a chartist, but he understands why charts are so important for predicting the market’s major moves. “You must consider them as if they are footprints at a scene of a crime,” the “Mad Money” host said. “These footprints trace out what big money managers might be doing with their buying […]
Read moreFrom its humble beginnings as an online bookstore to its recent purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon dominates the retail landscape. As a result, it’s no surprise the company has been on a hiring spree in recent months. Just last year, Amazon hired 110,000 employees and plans to grow its full-time U.S.-based workforce to over 280,000 […]
Read moreUber’s board and shareholders have discussed selling some shares to SoftBank and other companies, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Venture capital firm Benchmark, one of Uber’s early investors, is among the investors in talks to sell shares, unnamed sources told Bloomberg. Such a deal could provide new money into the ride-hailing […]
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Shares of Sprint spiked 5 percent Friday after The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, said the telecommunications company met with Warren Buffett and media business giant John Malone about an investment. Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son met separately with Buffett and Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, this week during a gathering of chief executive officers in […]
Read moreThe head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday. In a statement, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said the raid on Tuesday had killed other Islamic State members and would “significantly disrupt the terror group’s plans […]
Read moreNetflix and Bank of America are reporting earnings next week, and both stocks have Wall Street analysts buzzing on expectations that they could see big moves. Stacey Gilbert, head of derivative strategy at Susquehanna, notes that the options market implies a move of 8 percent for Netflix on earnings — which is lower than the […]
Read moreThe dollar is back in the doldrums, and it looks to be stuck that way for a while. After surprisingly weak CPI inflation data, the dollar index sank to a new low of 95.186 Friday, the lowest since September of last year. The dollar’s decline was broad-based, falling to a 10-month low against the British […]
Read moreDemand for single-family rental homes has never been stronger and, consequently, more investors are hoping to get in on the game. From large institutions buying thousands of homes to individual investors hoping to see strong returns on just a few properties, the competition is high. And so is the risk, especially for novices. New companies […]
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