These pledges have helped fuel a powerful stock market rally.
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Commodities remain the weak link in the stock market rally.
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Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for the stock market rally.
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The buybacks have also helped fuel the stock market rally.
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A stock market rally on Monday is the latest evidence.
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The quality of the stock market rally has deteriorated noticeably.
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We've been making a lot about the fabulous stock market rally.
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There is one thing missing from the stock market rally — Apple.
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This stock market rally to records is starting to look shaky.
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Picardo still expects another leg to the global stock market rally.
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Most explosive Stock Market rally that we've seen in modern times.
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Amazon.com is being shut out of the post-election stock market rally.
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And that is what is powering the stock market rally, Cramer said.
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This kind of irrational thinking is fueling the current stock market rally.
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A stock market rally since late June has pushed the S.&P.
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And it is a potential threat to this year's stock market rally.
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The year 22010 has ended with a 22019-year stock market rally.
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Wall Street concern extends beyond a pause in the stock market rally.
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As Monday's stock market rally faded, buyers went into bonds, pushing yields lower.
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Typically in the week before a presidential election, there's a stock market rally.
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Earnings and oil prices will challenge the stock market rally again on Tuesday.
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He called Thursday's stock market rally nothing more than a dead cat bounce.
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Wall Street analysts are pumping the brakes on the Trump stock market rally.
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He also shared three other risk factors to the stock market rally: 1.
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These numbers, along with lending-rate cuts, have fueled a stock market rally.
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Conservatives tended to malign the stock market rally every step of the way.
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Besides the stock market rally, hedge funds have been diving into European-focused strategies.
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Moreover, the global stock market rally is broadening around a "better economic growth" theme.
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A stock market rally since late June has pushed the S&P 500 index .
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A stock market rally has placed many equities back near their long-term uptrend.
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This stock market rally hasn't been as intense as many others that preceded it.
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The global stock market rally since 2009 has been assisted by global monetary expansion.
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He sees the outbreak as the most critical risk to the record stock market rally.
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More generally, it points to the somewhat restrained nature of the recent stock market rally.
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The billionaire investor also predicted a stock market rally near the end of this year.
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This fall, Trump incorrectly stated that a stock market rally could reduce the national debt.
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The post-election stock market rally has all the markings of an episode of euphoria.
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Hopes for less regulation, more spending and deep tax cuts are fueling the stock market rally.
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The recent stock market rally, triggered by hopes over Trump's policies, may lift sentiment, analysts say.
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Since then, the stock market rally has stalled as very little public progress has been made.
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Crude choked off a stock market rally Tuesday, when futures reversed course during the trading day.
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Tuesday's fizzled stock market rally shows why there are still plenty of reasons to tread cautiously.
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That and Powell's other dovish comments helped the stock market rally and pushed bond yields lower.
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One person not surprised by the post-election stock market rally is Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
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Yet, Colas doesn't believe the latest activity is the death knell for the record stock market rally.
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The minutes from the meeting, which helped spark a stock market rally, will be looked at closely.
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The stock market rally may be due for a pause, according to a top Federal Reserve official.
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A global stock market rally helped, as did cashing in on some S$18 billion of investments.
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These policy and rhetoric shifts have helped the so-called old guard of the stock market rally.
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S. trade war and a global stock market rally have offered some relief to Japan's central bankers.
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President Trump is cheering and taking credit for the stock market rally on a near-daily basis.
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Within days, dollar hoarding and currency black markets re-appeared and a stock market rally quickly fizzled.
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That would make the current stock-market rally, and implied economic expansion, one of the longest ever experienced.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper told CNBC on Monday he remains bullish on the stock market rally.
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After Monday's stunning stock market rally, traders will be looking for something to keep the momentum going Tuesday.
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He believes the late-year stock market rally in 2016 will provide momentum going into the new year.
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The global stock market rally boosted oil prices, while gold prices eased off of a three-month peak.
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He also told investors the stock market rally was intact when investor sentiment grew cautious earlier this year.
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Nothing is invincible, but JPMorgan doesn't see too much right now that could derail the stock market rally.
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Federated Investors' top market watcher isn't worried the rate surge will permanently derail the historic stock market rally.
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Shares in hotel companies did get a boost from the stock market rally over the past two days.
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More telling will be whether the stock market rally and jump in bond yields triggered by Trump's Nov.
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Investors may want to spend less time worrying about the emerging markets ruining the U.S. stock market rally.
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SPNY, one of the key drivers to the stock market rally in the early days following the Nov.
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Strategies The Trump stock market rally has displayed formidable staying power, yet there are reasons to be uneasy.
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As of December, the stock-market rally still lagged behind its performance under Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
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The current stock market rally is looking "a little extended," Rayomond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeffrey Saut said Thursday.
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The financial stocks have led the U.S. stock market rally since the presidential election, but have struggled more recently.
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A week-long stock market rally may be underway, but scores of investors may be missing out on it.
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The broad stock market rally that's lifted U.S. indexes to record highs has been very good to Big Tech.
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The stock market rally isn't about to fade anytime soon, according to Piper Jaffray chief market technician Craig Johnson.
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President Donald Trump likes to claim credit for the stock market rally, but there are other factors at work.
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The seemingly endless stock market rally continues to generate fear from investors, with the most recent focus on valuation.
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Since a stock market rally began on Election Day, there has been plenty of discussion about a Trump effect.
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The long stock market rally since 2009 was fueled in large part by the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policies.
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It's not too late to buy into this record stock market rally, investment expert Katie Nixon told CNBC on Friday.
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The paper gains are piling up since the stock market rally began the day after Donald Trump was elected president.
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The current stock market rally is broad based, and low-yielding bond markets present little competition to stocks, he said.
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President Donald Trump frequently touts the recent stock market rally as a sign of a strong economy and broader prosperity.
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As major averages continue to scale new highs, one Wall Street firm believes the stock market rally is getting overdone.
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A stock market rally and falling volatility in the wake the French vote also took the shine off bond markets.
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Financials have led the stock market rally over the past three months, marching back toward highs not seen since 2007.
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That's why the president is moving the goalposts to make his stock market rally appear even better than his predecessor.
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Looking to make good on the promise of instant redemption, investors wanted to switch their money into a stock market rally.
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Backlash over the measure knocked the wind out of the post-inaugural stock market rally, although major indexes rebounded on Wednesday.
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Wall Street bull Jeffrey Mills believes a Federal Reserve interest rate cut is not necessary to sustain the stock market rally.
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Amazon shares hit a record on Black Friday — one of the year's busiest shopping days — joining a broader stock market rally.
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"Commodities are starting to pick up, and there's a feeling that there's more left in this stock market rally," he said.
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With stocks rising on Monday for the third straight session, is the stock market rally still intact after last week's hiccup?
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New York (CNN Business)President Trump, it seems, does not want his stock market rally to be smaller than President Obama's.
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Politics will be front and center, and the November 2020 presidential election could throw a wrench into the stock market rally.
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"Commodities are starting to pick up, and there's a feeling that there's more left in this stock market rally," Griffiths said.
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Facebook's sudden and stunning vulnerability threatens to undercut the foundation of the stock market rally since Donald Trump was elected president.
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The stock market rally that has continued since Election Day has been overwhelmingly bank-led, with Goldman Sachs taking the lead.
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The instructions come as gray-market margin financing business appears to have revived, adding fuel to this year's sharp stock market rally.
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The stock market rally shows concretely how happy the capital markets are to have anyone who will boost corporate profits, even Trump.
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It's a well-oiled American machine: A mass shooting is followed by a stock-market rally of the two publicly traded gunsmiths.
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The spending and tax cut proposals have prompted a big move in interest rates since the election, and a stock market rally.
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The current stock market rally is encouraging because it's broad-based, but it has yet to prove itself, Art Cashin said Wednesday.
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He has continued to make that argument even as the GDP is on the rise and the stock market rally rolls on.
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I-- SARA EISEN: You're one of the few people that admits that the Fed was trying to engineer a stock market rally.
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The dollar's strength in Asian trading helped Japan's exporter-heavy stock market rally toward its biggest daily increase for almost two months.
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As investors get more confident about the latest leg of the stock market rally, one Wall Street strategist is growing more concerned.
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It's a slight whiff of euphoria around the stock market rally, the first time I have smelled it in a long time.
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Mr. Trump's victory has sparked a stock market rally – essentially, inflation in asset prices – as investors anticipate deregulation and business tax cuts.
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Expectations that the central bank would begin to cut interest rates this year have been fueling a stock market rally all month.
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But that occurred for only several hours, and then there was a powerful stock market rally, which has slowed but not stopped.
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During that period, a six-year stock market rally stalled, and the S&P 500 twice fell by more than 10 percent.
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But the S&P energy index, one of the key drivers to the stock market rally in the early days following the Nov.
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If it weren't for liquidity right now, the stock market rally could be ripping apart, according to BMO Private Bank's chief investment officer.
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For the investing class — including millions who save through their plans at work — the 10-year stock market rally has been a boon.
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Shares of energy companies led the stock market rally on Monday as oil prices climbed nearly 4 percent to a three-week high.
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In one of his latest tweets, Trump takes credit for the post-election stock market rally and an apparently solid Christmas retail season.
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During this uninterrupted stock market rally, TipRanks tracked and measured the performance of the stock ratings issues by over 6,313 Wall Street analysts.
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Stocks and oil stabilized overnight, but the 2019 stock market rally has stalled until it becomes clear when and how Iran will retaliate.
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Buffett conceded that the likelihood of an imminent deal is remote because the stock market rally has made most takeover targets prohibitively expensive.
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Expectations for positive GDP growth and less regulation could help the stock market rally 10 percent in 2017, Marc Lasry told CNBC on Wednesday.
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The stock market rally and recent yen declines, triggered by hopes for Trump's policies, also likely helped boost business and household confidence, analysts say.
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That launched a stock market rally that took major indexes to record highs, put a bid under the dollar and drove bond yields higher.
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A pause in the historic stock market rally could be just days away, according to UBS Financial Services Director of Floor Operations Art Cashin.
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More importantly, a new U.S. administration was coming in, with the promise of pursuing domestic growth policies that would fuel a stock market rally.
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Chief financial officers remain less convinced about the renewed U.S. stock market rally — and their recent concerns about stock valuations proved to be prescient.
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Meanwhile, after gold took a hit during the post-election stock market rally, he's seen his gold investments through an exchange-traded fund rising.
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A failure by Washington to approve a tax reform package wouldn't kill the stock market rally, but gains would be more muted, he said.
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Even President Donald Trump tweeted this week that he needs Congress to approve tax breaks and reform to keep the stock market rally going.
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That would give President Donald Trump a legislative victory and possibly add more fuel to the stock market rally, which has been flagging lately.
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The CNBC survey shows a change in attitude toward the stock market rally, which most respondents believe is based on fundamentals and corporate earnings.
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The 2017 global stock market rally is showing signs of fatigue and a 10 percent correction in U.S. equities looks imminent, experts are predicting.
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The transaction underlines how a stock market rally has turned companies' attention back to the equities market after a years-long drought of IPOs.
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There are even bigger problems with giving one President all the credit for a stock market rally in the first year of their term.
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As the presidential election approached, they were falling all over themselves to predict a Hillary Clinton victory and, afterward, a modest stock market rally.
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For months, the stock market rally seemed to have the strength to plow through the obstacles that the Trump administration threw in its way.
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The stock market rally over the past two months has brought with it a renewed interest from private companies to get in on the action.
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The nagging question on the tip of every investor's tongue is whether or not the Trump stock market rally had gone too far, too fast.
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Trump has spent much of his presidency bragging about the stock market rally (which has recently waned) and promising a big boost in economic growth.
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Gundlach told Reuters on Tuesday that a U.S. 10-year Treasury note yield above 3 percent will harm the stock-market rally and housing market.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund managers began warming to President Donald Trump soon after his surprise election ignited a powerful stock market rally.
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Friday's stock market rally is a good example of why it's never a good idea to follow crowds on Wall Street, especially during sharp downturns.
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The stock market rally since Trump won the presidential election has been reflecting that notion, argued McCulley, who said he voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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The stock market rally since Trump won the White House was fueled in late 2016 by blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average.
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The stock market rally off the early-February lows has created an unusual condition that could be a concern over the next month or so.
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The surge in investment buying interest was actually been delayed by the Chinese stock market rally in the first quarter of last year, she added.
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The more that trade policies dominate the initial Trump policy agenda, the greater the likelihood that the stock market rally will stall or reverse course.
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A significant portion of the growth can be attributed to Goldman Sachs, which accounted for nearly a quarter of the post-election stock market rally.
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Gordon, who's instrumental in building Russell Investments' asset allocation strategies, believes many investors haven't rebalanced their portfolios to reflect the historic 2019 stock market rally.
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The expectation of deep tax cuts has helped fuel a stock market rally during Trump's time as president, with the broad S&P 500 index .
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Other financial newcomers planning to list their shares this year amid an ongoing stock market rally include retail lender Banco Votorantim and insurer Caixa Seguridade.
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Since the financial crisis of 2008, four stocks — Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon — have been at the heart of the United States stock market rally.
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Consumer spending boomed as a stock-market rally fuelled optimism about the new government but then lost momentum because wages were not rising that much.
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"Fresh cash continues to find its way into Asia and emerging markets amid the global stock market rally and a weakening U.S. dollar, " Chua said.
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But WW has missed out on the 2019 stock market rally, as the company faced increased competition from new diet fads, including the keto diet.
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The stock market rally has paused amid uncertainty around President Donald Trump's policies, but investors shouldn't be too concerned, expert Ken Moraif told CNBC on Monday.
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Hopes for that policy change, as well as potential infrastructure funding, helped to power a stock market rally in the weeks after Trump's election in November.
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The upside in crude played a strong role in the stock market rally on Tuesday, but then reversed, and took the down with it in lockstep.
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Doll said Thursday he thought the country will see more of the former than the latter, calling the post-election stock market rally an "amazing" reaction.
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Shares of Bank of America have surged about 35 percent since Donald Trump won the presidency, swept up in the stock market rally since Election Day.
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Nonetheless, he noted that despite the recent stock market rally, some stocks have dropped from their highs, so investors should also focus on individual stock performance.
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Profits have soared at buyout firms such as Carlyle in recent years, as a U.S. stock market rally allowed them to sell assets for top dollar.
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If the stock market rally is going to continue the next couple of months, it will have to do so against an aggressively worsening profit backdrop.
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This, from CNN's financial expert Christine Romans, makes that point well: "In no sense does the stock market rally wipe out the national debt," said Romans.
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They usually do lag, but this year, a shock election followed by an unexpected and strong stock market rally, has left many managers especially far behind.
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His remark last week that the Fed would likely be more "patient" with regards to future rate hikes helped fuel a monstrous stock market rally Friday.
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In the United States, the stock market rally was thwarted in the first quarter by U.S. President Donald Trump's announcements on trade tariffs on Chinese imports.
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The record-setting stock market rally will gain steam in 2020 as the stage is set for the global economy to recover, according to J.P. Morgan.
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In the next round, investors will hear from big tech stocks Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon, which have played a sizable role in the stock market rally.
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Profits have soared at private equity firms such as Blackstone in recent years, as a U.S. stock market rally allowed them to sell assets for top dollar.
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The signs of sustained strength in the economy, together with a U.S. stock market rally, could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates later this year.
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Still, some traders are worried about this stock-market rally as a large chunk of this year's gains have come from just five large-cap tech stocks.
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The stock market rally that began 2019 has not yet run its course, even with Tuesday's Washington-induced surge, Cramer said after consulting with technician Carley Garner.
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There's also growing concern that the latest developments could derail the president's pro-business tax cut and reform plans, and permanently take down the stock market rally.
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Nearly a quarter of the post-election stock market rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been driven by gains in one company's stock: Goldman Sachs.
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On the other hand, many middle income-earners sold properties last year in order to free up cash in the hope of catching the stock market rally.
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The tech industry's stock market rally has gone on so long by this point that it can be difficult to recall a time when things were different.
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Profits have soared at private-equity firms such as Blackstone in recent years, as a U.S. stock market rally allowed them to sell assets for top dollar.
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Despite the news, Brown said it is important to remember the stock market rally that investors are witnessing arguably started back in July before Trump became president.
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JPMorgan and Bank of America beat earnings estimates for the end of the year thanks to the post-election stock market rally that helped boost trading income.
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Investors have finally started to chase this year's stock market rally, which has been driven largely by the Federal Reserve's sharp turn away from steady rate increases.
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The stock market rally that kicked off more than nine years ago during the financial crisis is now arguably the longest on record in the United States.
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Here's the math: When measured from Inauguration Day until 2-1/2 years into the first term, Trump's stock market rally is big, but not the biggest.
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The stock market rally has made the rich feel even richer, yet many are nervous about stock market levels so they're putting more money into real estate.
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The recent stock market rally and companies beginning to accept a more modest pricing of offerings for IPOs has more tech companies ready to test the waters.
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Despite the stock market rally, technology and pharmaceuticals are the main sectors actually chalking up growth, said advertising and public relations company WPP's CEO, Sir Martin Sorrell.
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Analysts had predicted the stock market rally would be short-lived, as realities about the slowing global economy, trade disputes and tricky local issues return to preoccupy investors.
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The stock market rally has been fueled in part by hopes that a big tax cut — of one kind or another — would bump up corporate profits and spending.
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The stock market rally since the U.S. presidential election, which has sent to a record, is more fundamentally based than most investors suspect, according to strategist Jim Paulsen.
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European shares fell 21.18 percent and U.S. stock futures were flat, suggesting a cautious start to Wall Street trading after Tuesday's stock market rally to all-time highs.
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Reality check: The dirty little secret of this year's stock market rally is that it has been fueled by share buy backs rather than real-money investors buying.
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The January stock market rally coincided with a cash allocation of 4.8 percent, which is above the 4.5 percent threshold that Bank of America considers a bullish sign.
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Abe's economic policies met with initial success after taking office in late 2012 as the BOJ's quantitative easing and a stock market rally fuelled gains in consumer spending.
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The good news: the total value of investment in 401(k)s and other defined contribution plans are at a new high, thanks to the stock market rally.
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The jump in sentiment tracked a stock market rally as both consumers and investors focused on the business mogul-turned politician's promises to cut taxes and reduce regulations.
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Professional investors remain flummoxed at the relentlessness of this year's stock market rally, as low volatility persists despite any number of factors present that normally would disrupt momentum.
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A stock market rally wilted in afternoon trading Friday after the F.B.I. notified Congress that it would investigate new emails linked to the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Investors should expect another U.S. stock-market rally if the Republican tax bill passes since the market has not fully baked it in, a strategist at UBS says.
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The president on Saturday also touted the previous day's stock market rally, with stocks posting their biggest one-day gain since 2008, ending a crushing week of losses.
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A surge of hiring, record holiday sales and a late stock market rally at the end of 2019 helped temper fears of a recession that dominated the summer.
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The stock market rally has partially been hinged on hopes that the Trump administration will enact some sort of tax reform in the second half of the year.
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With mounting evidence from major corporate bellwethers that the U.S. economy is still improving, investors should take solace the stock market rally will likely keep going as well.
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During the stock market rally of the past nine years, that dynamic has changed, with Wells Fargo's target date funds underperforming most competitors, according to Morningstar Inc data.
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If they rise faster than at the cautious pace the Federal Reserve has projected and investors expect, that could bring the stock market rally to an abrupt end.
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That is the highest level of bond investment since September 2016, when Mexico's central bank began hiking its key interest rate and a stock market rally started to cool.
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A U.S. 10-year Treasury note yield above 3 percent will harm the stock-market rally and housing market, said Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, on Tuesday.
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President Trump's success in last year's presidential campaign was in no small part due to his accommodative approach to business, which has subsequently spawned a U.S. stock market rally.
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S. talks may be needed to lift the current weak market sentiment, as factors that had helped a robust stock market rally weakened to some extent, the brokerage added.
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The stock market rally since Donald Trump's election represents a "huge psychological difference" about the prospects for the economy, fellow real estate billionaire Sam Zell told CNBC on Wednesday.
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Again the majority of losses were seen in the center book which was caught off guard by Donald Trump's unexpected White House victory and the ensuing stock market rally.
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In a statement posted on its website, the China Securities Regulatory Commission also cautioned investors against investment risks and urged them to be rational amid a stock market rally.
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Most traders believe 2017 growth forecasts of a 1.4 percent economic expansion are easily achievable, raising the prospect for an upside surprise that would underpin the stock market rally.
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The stock market rally that began 2019 has not yet run its course, even with Tuesday's Washington-induced surge, CNBC's Jim Cramer said after consulting with technician Carley Garner.
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Three is a trend: JPMorgan and Bank of America beat earnings estimates last week for the same reason, the post-election stock market rally that helped boost trading income.
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A new Fed chair who argues for tightening monetary policy more aggressively is seen putting economic growth at risk, along with corporate earnings, and the long stock market rally.
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Even though the 10-Year Treasury yield is trading around the highest level since April 2014, Wall Street veteran Edward Yardeni doesn't see it hurting the stock market rally.
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President Donald Trump said the stock market rally since his election victory gives him the opportunity to be more aggressive in his trade war with China and other countries.
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On Wednesday, it rose to a fresh four-year high of 2.957 percent, and that helped turn a strong stock market rally after the Fed minutes into a bloodbath.
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The expectation of deep tax cuts has helped fuel a stock market rally during Trump's time as president, with the broad S&P 500 index up about 14 percent.
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Simply put, when banks lead a stock market rally, it is an indicator that loan demand is rising, that business is percolating and that the economy is on firmer footing.
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If Cramer only listened to the media, he would think that every single point of the stock market rally falls on the shoulders of President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Allen Sandeep, head of research at Cairo-based Naeem Brokerage, said clarity on terms of the IMF loan would be needed before any extended stock market rally could take hold.
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The slight earnings miss came in a quarter in which its main peers exceeded analysts' estimates as a U.S. stock market rally buoyed the value of their private equity holdings.
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Bannister says one of the biggest risks to this stock market rally is the Federal Reserve and the possibility it pushes the yield curve to invert through its tightening policy.
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China's securities regulator announced measures on Monday to restrict convertible bond subscriptions after surging demand for the instruments, prompted by this year's stock market rally, raised concerns over market liquidity.
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Whatever the reason, the news sparked a stock market rally on Tuesday with investors ignoring the rising prices that 10% tariffs on imports that don't include consumer goods would cause.
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The Leuthold Group's Jim Paulsen sees inflation and the 10-year yield ticking higher as the likely catalyst to stop the stock market rally in its tracks — at least temporarily.
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Oil prices have fallen sharply on concerns about slowing demand, but won some respite on Tuesday after a global stock market rally on hopes the Fed may trim interest rates.
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Sectors sensitive to interest rates have posted some of the bigger gains in the current stock market rally, Matt Phillips of the NYT writes, despite forecasts of an economic slowdown.
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"I think we stay long for now, but we need to be very aware that we are in distribution phase for this massive five-wave stock market rally," Gordon said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, on CNBC television, said U.S. tax cuts have added fuel to the stock market rally and that there is more room to run.
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Small-cap stocks have led the latest leg of the stock market rally, but they may hit turbulence during earnings season when small companies are expected to report shrinking profits.
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Tax reform is one of the factors that has helped the stock market rally into the new year, and the bull still appears unstoppable early on in the earnings season.
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With growing investor optimism about the Trump administration's policies like tax reform, deregulation and revamping the Affordable Care Act, Fisher wondered when rates would "catch up with" the stock market rally.
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Cramer knows all too well that it's much easier for investors to buy into a big stock market rally than it is to determine the cause of a major sell-off.
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If Jim Cramer only listened to the media, he would think that every single point of the stock market rally falls on the shoulders of President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Despite the potential risks ahead, a Monday stock market rally pushed the S&P 500 index to a record high as Wall Street regained its composure after a summer sell-off.
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State Street's Bartolini said investor rebalancing in the wake of the big stock market rally this year could still put demand in for fixed income, though that also could reverse quickly.
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The first rate cut, when the economy isn't in a recession, leads to a stock market rally 100% of the time, according to data compiled by Fundstrat going back to 1971.
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But according to Credit Suisse equity strategists, the 20 percent stock market rally since Trump's election does not appear to be backed by the promise of tax reform, as many believe.
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The powerful 503 stock market rally will continue through next year even if it slows down just a little, according to a forecast from one of Wall Street's most optimistic strategists.
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But gold and bond prices have also climbed roughly the same amount in the first half, showing investors are still not quite sure about this stock market rally, the analyst said.
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The slow economic recovery and recent stock market rally have not been sufficient to reinvigorate the plans, which are jointly funded by labor unions and employers whose workers participate in them.
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" However, earlier this week, billionaire investor Sam Zell and sovereign wealth fund advisor Komal Sri-Kumar told CNBC that they believe the stock market rally is showing signs of "irrational exuberance.
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Professional investors closed out 2019 in an upbeat mood and are dumping cash to buy into this stock market rally, according to one of the most widely followed Wall Street surveys.
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The expectation of deep tax cuts has helped fuel a stock market rally during Trump's first year as president, with the broad S&P 500 index up more than 13 percent.
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Oil prices have fallen sharply on fears about slowing global demand, but won a respite on Tuesday after a global stock market rally on hopes of a cut in U.S. interest rates.
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In a CNBC interview this week from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Dimon said gains for Americans will extend beyond the stock market rally that has taken place since the election.
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NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, on CNBC television, said U.S. tax cuts have added fuel to the stock market rally and that there is more room to run.
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With the Dow Jones industrial average just shy of 20,000, closely watched investment analyst Jonathan Golub told CNBC on Wednesday it's not too late to profit from the postelection stock market rally.
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After an eight-year U.S. stock market rally, nearly all sectors are trading at earnings multiples above their long-term average, but none more so than technology, according to Thomson Reuters Datastream.
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The stock market rally has gotten a bit "long in the tooth" and could pull back 3 percent to 5 percent after the New Year, expert David Schiegoleit told CNBC on Thursday.
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In commodity markets, oil prices ended as much as 1% higher on Tuesday after a global stock market rally pulled Brent crude from a four-month low touched earlier in the session.
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The stock market rally after Trump's election was fueled by optimism that he would deliver on pro-growth promises, including tax cuts for small companies, infrastructure spending and a lighter regulatory touch.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers said they are looking beyond the United States for investment ideas as the so-called Trump bump stock market rally shows signs it may be fizzling.
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"Gold is somewhat desperately trying to cling onto key support around $1,480, finding mild support because of the stock market rally pausing for a breather," said Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst with Forex.com.
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The new classification puts Facebook, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet - companies whose explosive growth has helped propel a stock-market rally - alongside traditional telecom players including AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices ended as much as 03% higher on Tuesday after a global stock market rally pulled Brent crude from a four-month low touched earlier in the session.
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That was an $18.7 million swing, thanks to the Trump-inspired stock market rally and the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to increase interest rates, a boost for banks and credit card companies.
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And a September 2007 article said that the Federal Reserve began to cut interest rates to stimulate the economy, setting off a stock market rally only two months before the recession's start.
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For many investors, Tesla marks a test case for the broader stock-market rally that has sent shares to records and driven the Dow Jones Industrial Average toward 30000 in recent sessions.
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The global stock market rally, which led to gains of over 270 percent in 183, also leant support, with equities making up around 218-212 percent of SWF and pension fund portfolios.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. 10-year Treasury note yield above 3 percent will harm the stock-market rally and housing market, said Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, on Tuesday.
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Blackstone followed its peer Apollo Global Management in reporting strong appreciation in its buyout funds and higher profits as both benefited from the stock market rally and a string of asset sales.
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Because of this, infrastructure E.T.F.s, which typically own utilities, rose sharply earlier this year, peaked in September and have been listless, falling with bond prices despite the broader stock market rally since.
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Yet signs that the trade war between the United States and China - the world's two largest economies - could continue has made investors increasingly skittish that the stock market rally could be slowing.
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The S&P and Dow broke four-day win streaks on Friday, but they're still up 3% and 2%, respectively, on the year, with Monday's stock market rally led by tech gains.
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"The U.S. stock market rally could continue but at some stage there's going to be a significant correction, and the more it goes up the more it's going to correct," he said.
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Several big-name hedge fund investors soured on U.S. stocks in the second quarter and moved to gold and other bearish bets, failing to anticipate the stock market rally in the current quarter.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer knows all too well that it's much easier for investors to buy into a big stock market rally than it is to determine the cause of a major sell-off.
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U.S. companies like Nvidia and Apple have said their revenues have been hurt by softer Chinese sales, and analysts believe there could be a sharp stock market rally if trade issues are resolved.
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NEW YORK, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A 10-year Treasury note yield above 3 percent will harm the stock-market rally and housing market, said Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, on Tuesday.
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The site speculated that current Chair Janet Yellen remains in the mix because Trump is worried that removing her might disrupt the hardy stock market rally that has taken place since his election.
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DUBAI, Jan 21.33 (Reuters) - Major Gulf bourses soared more than 200000 percent in early trade on Sunday, joining a global stock market rally after oil prices rocketed at the end of last week.
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While the operation ostensibly was aimed at keeping overnight borrowing rates within their proscribed range, it also has coincided with a stock market rally that has almost perfectly matched the balance sheet increase.
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Later, when he hired a Wall Street Journal reporter who had written glowingly about Bloomberg and his terminal, he entered the news business and rode the 1990s stock-market rally to new heights.
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The tight race between the trio of high-powered technology stocks coincided with a broad stock market rally after the United States and China agreed on a temporary truce in their ongoing trade dispute.
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Trump administration pledges could take years to pay off in economic terms, posing problems for what Wharton School finance professor Jeremy Siegel recently described on CNBC as a "98 percent Trump" stock market rally.
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Technical analysts, who study charts to make buying and selling decisions, are telling clients the stock market rally is likely to push forward despite the massive gains in equities over the past four months.
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But on Friday, New York Fed President John Williams kicked off a brief stock market rally when he told CNBC the Fed is willing to reconsider its policy depending on the economy and conditions.
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Even though the Italian referendum is "very Eurocentric," Emanuel said U.S. investors began to shift their attention to the uncertainty around it just as the U.S. stock market rally slowed in the past week.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European fund managers upped their equity holdings to three-month highs in September, favoring the United States where renewed optimism over tax reform is giving fresh impetus to the stock market rally.
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The June probability was less than 50 percent on Wednesday but rose Thursday on the heels of better-than-expected 0.93 percent growth in the leading economic indicators barometer and a stock market rally.
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The highest consumer confidence reading in more than 16 years and the postelection stock market rally may not translate into more robust economic growth, former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told CNBC on Thursday.
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Read MoreHow to tell bull from bear market correction Oil also rose after the Chinese data, but turned lower in Tuesday trading, puncturing the stock market rally and dragging stocks lower as it declined.
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The Trump Brand The stock market rally is now "the Trump Effect" — because branding has been at the core of Trump's success in every facet of his life, and politics will be no different.
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No doubt, he can take credit for a stock market rally and consumer confidence jumping on hopes that his business friendly agenda would pass, but that has yet to translate into actual job creation.
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After leading last year's stock market rally, the S&P 500 information technology index in 2018 is in a neck-and-neck lead with consumer discretionary, both about 4.9 percent higher year to date.
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Not only were they unable to accumulate assets in the lean years of the early recovery, but they also missed out on the recent stock market rally that benefited their older and richer peers.
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President Donald Trump's administration may be poised to announce what could become a major effort to strike out at China for its trade practices, but the stock market rally this year hasn't even hiccuped.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A stock market rally is breathing fresh life into equity capital markets across developing countries, with bankers predicting some long-awaited IPO deals will finally get off the starting blocks in coming months.
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Investors have been locking in profits, shrugging off continued strength in economic data as euro zone earnings growth slowed compared to the previous quarters and caution rose over whether a stock market rally could continue.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gold's resilience in the face of soaring equities and a dramatic fall in demand this year points to underlying confidence in the metal among investors unconvinced by this autumn's scorching stock market rally.
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Despite an expected interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week, the stock market rally should remain intact ahead of peaking later this year, said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.
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A Federal Reserve rate hike in December and a Donald Trump stock market rally have made it easier for investors to meet their retirement needs, according to BlackRock's cost of retirement income, or CoRI, indexes.
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NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. investors continued to buy into the stock market rally by sending a net $4 billion into domestic equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in the week ended Feb.
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Robert Marvin, portfolio manager of the Hood River Small-Cap Growth fund, said the recent stock market rally prompted him to buy recreational boat builder Brunswick Corporation and recreational boat and yacht dealer MarineMax Inc.
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With no end in sight to the trade conflict, he said he was not betting on a substantial stock-market rally until there's a signed trade deal and confirmation that tensions won't escalate somewhere else.
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With a quintessentially American brand and an important niche in the United States manufacturing sector, Harley might have been expected to participate in the stock market rally that took place after Mr. Trump was elected.
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While share prices for Amazon jumped 22019 percent today in a broader stock market rally, its stock has fallen 10 percent since the start of last week, when Trump began his assault on the company.
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But it comes at a time when the U.S. recovery feels fragile, inflation is nowhere to be found, and both the stock market rally and the broader economic recovery are awfully long in the tooth.
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" But with growing concerns about the sustainability of the financials-led stock market rally, Citi on Tuesday downgraded Goldman Sachs to sell from neutral based on the view that the stock's post-election rally has "overshot.
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Much of this year's stock market rally across the globe is down to a $1 trillion "liquidity supernova" of financial assets that central banks in Europe and Japan have bought so far this year, it added.
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The surprise win by Donald Trump has given liftoff to a stock market rally that has particularly favored stocks that will do well with his proposed fiscal stimulus program, tax cuts and higher interest rate world.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several big-name hedge fund investors soured on U.S. stocks in the second quarter and moved to gold and other bearish bets, failing to anticipate the stock market rally in the current quarter.
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" Should the bounce in crude continue, the stock market rally "could get some legs," but given what Maley calls recent "technical damage" in the oil market, "it's far from a lock that these bounces will last.
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The results came after French banks enjoyed a stock market rally following the first round of the French presidential election that bolstered investors' projections that Emmanuel Macron, seen as a business-friendly candidate, would eventually win.
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Not to be overlooked: the bank's view that 2020 will usher in a major rotation as retail investors finally get in on the stock market rally, moving away from bond funds and back into stock funds.
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The Fed pledge to be more "patient" with its interest rate hikes erased one of the biggest obstacles to a stock market rally that went on for much of President Donald Trump's time in office, Cramer said.
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Banks, which benefit from higher interest rates and have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the global stock market rally that followed Trump's election last year, rose 3 percent, making them the biggest sectoral gainer in Europe.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Defensive equity strategies focused on high payouts and steady earnings have gained in popularity this year as investors flock to safety, worried the biggest stock market rally in decades is about to come crashing down.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell sparked a huge stock market rally after he delivered just the message investors wanted to hear — that the Fed will be flexible on policy and it is in no hurry to raise interest rates.
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Trump's pledge to cut taxes, including a lowering of the rates paid by corporations, was a pillar of his 2016 presidential campaign and provided much of the fuel for the heady stock market rally that followed his Nov.
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That has been propelled by a stock market rally late last year that encouraged would-be listings, and by rules introduced this year to attract tech firms by allowing them to weight voting rights in favour of founders.
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The Trump stock market rally is under siege There could be more trouble when Trump's already twice-blocked travel ban on citizens of predominantly Muslim nations faces another day in court this week -- with a challenge in Hawaii.
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The initial stock market rally that followed Mr. Trump's victory in November — the so-called Trump bump — was fueled by optimism among investors that long-sought action on tax reform and infrastructure spending might finally be at hand.
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While is easy to see why Chinese policymakers want to see the stock market rally, one has to wonder why debt, and indeed short-term debt via margin financing, is being pushed by policymakers to exacerbate market returns.
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Its shares are now hovering around a two-year high thanks to the strong performance of its private equity funds, which have been buoyed by a stock market rally and are returning on average 2.2 times its investors' money.
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The biggest risk to the U.S. stock market rally since Donald Trump won the presidency may turn out to be something the new administration can't do anything about, Allianz's chief economic advisor Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC on Monday.
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But at the same time, expectations that the U.S. stock-market rally would fade in the second half and geopolitical risks, such as European elections and potential trade frictions, would rise should be positive for gold prices, it noted.
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The jump was in tandem with a stock market rally as both consumers and investors focused on Trump's pledge to cut taxes and reduce regulations, policy proposals that have been viewed as pro-business and favorable for economic growth.
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While the deadlines may be met more handily than in recent years, they are important because they will offer the first glimpse into the structure and size of the spending proposal that drove the post-election stock market rally.
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Blackstone's strong earnings illustrate how the stock market rally, which was fueled by hopes of policy reform under the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, benefited buyout firms by allowing the sale of assets at very high valuations.
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Powell, a current Fed governor, has the advantage of presenting Trump with a chance to break from the Yellen Fed yet maintain many of the same policies that have kept the stock market rally intact and interest rates low.
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Its shares are now hovering around a two-year high thanks to the strong performance of its private equity funds, which have been buoyed by a stock market rally and are returning on average 553 times its investors' money.
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An apparent Federal Reserve policy shift in January was a root cause of the first-quarter stock market rally, many strategists say, and it is likely to be an important factor — maybe the most important — in whatever comes next.
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BENGALURU (Reuters) - The global stock market rally has further to run in 250, according to analysts, brokers and strategists polled by Reuters, but much depends on U.S. and Chinese officials making real progress in stopping a disruptive trade war.
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Fueled by a stock market rally ignited by President Donald Trump's election win, hedge fund returns recovered in the first half and 67 percent of the managers surveyed by Preqin said they met or beat their own return goals.
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Consumer spending is likely to remain supported by rising household wealth, thanks to the stock market rally and higher house prices, tax cuts and firming wage growth as companies compete for workers and some states raise the minimum wage.
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However, it was still unclear to what extent economic growth would take a hit from the virus, which has killed more than 1,100 people, shuttered businesses in China and briefly disputed global stock market rally in the past weeks.
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Stock traders said domestic investors were buying shares at cheap valuations, hoping that a more liberal currency market and the recent stock-market rally will draw foreign investors, who have avoided Nigeria due to the risk of a currency devaluation.
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The Federal Reserve's pledge to be more "patient" with its interest rate hikes erased one of the biggest obstacles to a stock market rally that went on for much of President Donald Trump's time in office, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday.
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ET/212 GMT (Adds closing prices) NEW YORK, June 220 (Reuters) - Oil prices ended as much as 22019% higher on Tuesday after a global stock market rally pulled Brent crude from a four-month low touched earlier in the session.
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Each one of those Indiana-native Carrier workers who will keep their jobs thanks to this deal is worth an infinite number of positive reports about the post-Trump election stock market rally or the GDP finally breaking above 3 percent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors plowed $14.2 billion into global equity funds this week, the largest amount in a year as investors jumped on to 2019's stock market rally, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday, citing flow data provider EPFR.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Investors raised their equity holdings in April from March's five-year lows, taking the view that the global stock market rally will continue as long as central banks maintain their loose monetary policies, a Reuters poll showed on Friday.
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NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - A number of big-name hedge fund investors soured on U.S. stocks in the second quarter and moved to gold and other bearish bets, failing to anticipate the stock market rally in the current quarter.
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Millionaire investors began 1.53 with major reservations about the stock market, but as the Federal Reserve's abrupt about-face on interest rates takes hold as the new normal in monetary policy, the wealthy have decided that the stock market rally will continue.
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The broad stock market rally has been a boon for active fund managers, who are posting stronger performance numbers this year despite shedding more market share to passive index funds, said Todd Rosenbluth, director of mutual fund research at independent research firm CFRA.
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Shares of JPMorgan have rallied nearly 20 percent since Election Day — swept up in the broader Trump stock market rally, and the notions that the new administration will reduce banking regulations and push through pro-growth policies that necessitate higher interest rates.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The seven-week U.S. stock market rally still has some room to run and could punch through the record high set by the S&P 500 last May, based on a number of indicators that are pointing the way higher.
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In the two weeks to Friday, mixed U.S. economic data and uncertainty about the path of future interest rate hikes had put a dampener on a stock market rally that had seen the S&P gain about 15 percent from its February lows.
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Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said on CNBC on Thursday that the stock market rally has been supported by institutional investors covering shorts, or bets that stocks would fall, and not individual investors feeling bullish.
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In the two weeks to Friday, mixed economic data and uncertainty about the path of future interest rate hikes had put a dampener on a stock market rally that had seen the S&P gain about 223.9 percent from its February lows.
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Cramer, on "Mad Money" on Tuesday, said Netflix's earnings performance not only provided "further fire" for the stock market rally but, more importantly, proved that FANG — his acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet — was still alive and kicking.
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There's a growing risk that trade tensions between the world's two largest economies may converge with other factors to disrupt the global economy — and knock the historic U.S. stock market rally off its stride, according to one of the world's leading authorities on Asia.
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The greenback's strength will likely hit companies with large international exposure, such as tech stocks, and likely derail the postelection stock market rally that's taken the Dow Jones industrial average to record highs and the and Nasdaq composite close to their all-time highs.
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It helped dispel one of the few nagging doubts of the corporate earnings season so far - that Amazon's lacklustre results last week might have revealed some tiredness among the giant U.S. tech and internet stocks that have been driving the stock market rally all year.
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It helped dispel one of the few nagging doubts of the corporate earnings season so far — that Amazon's lacklustre results last week might have revealed some tiredness among the giant U.S. tech and internet stocks that have been driving the stock market rally all year.
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The White House and the Republicans have the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court to crow about, and they can continue to at least try to take credit for the stock market rally and three percent GDP growth, but that's about it.
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Since November, the stock market rally has been fueled by expectations that President Trump, helped by Republican majorities in the House and the Senate, would be able to push through tax cuts, roll back regulations and kick-start a round of government-backed infrastructure spending.
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Of course, the devil's in the details, and Brian Reynolds, the chief market strategist at New Albion Partners, is happy to explain how this stock market rally "is likely going to persist…another 3-6 years," as he told his clients in a late February letter.
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"Global banks' Asian revenues had been propped up by China's massive stock market rally in 2015, but the secondary market is down considerably from its amazing bull run, which means sales and trading compensation should be lower," said Benjamin Quinlan, CEO of Hong Kong consultancy Quinlan & Associates.
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Because most consumers accumulate the majority of their wealth through their homes, a rise in property values can provide a more substantial boost to household wealth than a stock market rally, said William Emmons, lead economist at the St. Louis Fed's Center for Household Financial Stability.
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The hope among many CEOs and financial industry executives is that they will help steer Trump away from trade wars while helping implement a policy of tax cuts, infrastructure investment and reduced regulations that could boost economic growth and continue a stock market rally that began following Trump's election.
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So far $7.67.875 billion has been raised in high-yield, or junk bonds, out of Asia, almost as much as the $45.6 billion sold in 2018, Refinitiv data showed, as a now-dovish stance from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a stock market rally have stoked investors' risk appetite.
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The strong U.S. stock market rally, surge in Treasury yields and strength in the U.S. dollar since Trump's surprising presidential victory more than three weeks ago look to be "losing steam," Gundlach, who oversees more than $106 billion at Los Angeles-based DoubleLine, said in a telephone interview.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - America First may be a main policy of the White House and fuel to the stock market rally but U.S. investors are looking overseas for stronger earnings as S&P 500 companies are set to report their first quarter of double-digit profit gains since 2014.
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Bankers around the world are looking to the global stock market rally of the past year to kick-start a series of big floats and spin-offs, following years of caution and balance sheet repair by companies that led to a lackluster market for initial public offerings (IPOs).
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That is, if President Trump sees a return to a stock market rally, less criticism of him and his administration in the news media, and less strife inside the White House simply by letting Bannon go, he may be willing to change his tune on other issues as well.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil prices rose to the fourth consecutive weekly gain on Friday, steadying at three-month highs after new data showed U.S. crude inventories fell far more than expected, while upbeat economic data and optimism over a U.S.-China trade deal fueled a year-end stock market rally.
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China's housing market had continued to regain momentum due to eased concerns about higher borrowing costs, the increase in wealth effect from the stock market rally and renewed concerns about worsening home affordability, Tommy Xie, an economist at OCBC Greater China research, said in a note prior to the data.
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While there has been positive news in recent months to drive a stock market rally, such as interest-rate reductions and encouraging signs on Brexit and the U.S.-China trade deal, Wilson said he doesn't see any reason for the S&P 500 to break out of its current range.
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Another possibility is that this sell-off reflects the unwinding of "herd" behavior among global asset managers, who piled into similar investments during the 2009 to 2014 stock market rally and are now racing to unload the same high-yield bonds, emerging market stocks and energy investments all at once.
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The recent stock market rally on hopes for pro-growth economic policies under President-elect Donald Trump is just a small hint of what lies ahead as the will rally 14 percent in 2017 from current levels, according to RBC Capital Markets, which on Monday released its investment playbook for next year.
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Trump's expected nomination of Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to be the next chair of the U.S. central bank likely will provide investors with some assurance of continuity in monetary policy, supporting the eight-year long stock market rally, but perhaps dealing a blow to those looking for a stronger U.S. dollar.
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Fund managers from IVA, Ridgeworth and Fidelity are among those who are bullish on gold at a time when the VIX, Wall Street's main measure of volatility, is near two-year lows amid a stock market rally that has pushed the S&P 500 up 6.5 percent since Election Day in November.
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Amid the anticipation of a slow-moving Fed has come the latest leg of the stock market rally, with the ripping 15.3 percent higher in 2017, a year that, if the Fed comes through in December, will feature three rate hikes, plus the beginning of the reduction in the $4.5 trillion balance sheet.
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Now that President Donald Trump has threatened to dramatically ramp up the tariff pressure on China, traders are being forced to confront an unpleasant reality: The main reason for the stock market rally — the stupendous rise in corporate earnings due to the global economic expansion and tax cuts — is now under threat.
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Since the financial crisis, these four stocks — Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon — have been at the heart of the United States stock market rally and now have all reached sizes — between $400 billion and $700 billion — that in terms of value compare with the gross domestic product of many countries of note.
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Instead, consider this theory: the data were simply good enough to help the stock market rally a bit; but then the algorithms kicked in and took the market higher, which caused so-called performance fear to kick in for institutional investors who don't want to fall behind at the very start of the year.
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The part of Trumpism that Pence would likely keep — tax cuts, and a push for deregulation that includes repeal of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law and the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare — is the part most closely associated with the post-election stock market rally for which Trump's agenda deserves at least some of the credit.
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Street Scene The so-called Trump Bump, the stock market rally that has unexpectedly ignited the Dow Jones industrial average to soar close to 21,000 since President Trump's election, has swept up in its powerful force lots of stocks, especially those of Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, which are at, or near, record highs.
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From the Wells Fargo scandal to the Brexit vote and Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's jobs deals to the post-election stock market rally, 2023 was quite a year for the markets and the economy.
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"You can't place all your bets on the largest deals, you are going to be wrong more often than not," said Marc-Anthony Hourihan, co-head of Americas M&A for UBS Group AG. Not all attempted deals made it to the board room either, as the stock market rally raised valuation expectations and made it more difficult for buyers and sellers to agree on a price.
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He has also slapped tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products and threatened to raise tariffs to 20 percent on European cars coming into the U.S. In an exclusive interview with CNBC's Joe Kernen that aired Friday, Trump said the stock market rally since his election victory gives him the opportunity to be more aggressive in his trade war with China and other countries.
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The Fed-driven stock market rally that ensued became known as the "Tepper rally," with the S&P 500 gaining about 45% until then-Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed in June 2013 slowing what was then the third round of QE. In May 2013, as talk was rampant about whether the Fed was going to reduce the pace of asset purchases, Tepper said investors should not fear a Fed "taper," because such action is needed to keep the stock market steady by preventing it from going into "hyper-drive" and flaming out.
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