Sarah Ponczek
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New York, NY, United States
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Got Lucky, Got It Right: How Newbie Stock Jocks Beat the Market
Bloomberg Bloomberg | Quint is a multiplatform, Indian business and financial news company. We combine Bloomberg’s global leadership in business and financial news and data, with Quintillion Media’s deep expertise in the Indian market and digital news delivery, to provide high quality business news, insights and trends for India’s sophisticated audiences. → Read More
Charts That Traders Will Be Nervously Refreshing on Election Night
(Bloomberg) -- For investors, the answers to questions about who won on election night will be more complicated than just “Republicans” or “Democrats. → Read More
Robinhood’s Addictive App Made Trading a Pandemic Pastime
Now the platform has to make money from its devoted fans. → Read More
Cloud Stock Mania Comes With Eerie Echoes of Dot-Com Boom and Bust
Sure, there’s a compelling explanation for Snowflake’s blockbuster IPO and similar success stories. But haven’t we seen this movie before? → Read More
Stocks Gain Amid Deals Optimism; Dollar Weakens: Markets Wrap
U.S. equities rose amid a flurry of deal activity and signs of progress toward a coronavirus vaccine. European shares fluctuated, while the pound rebounded from last week’s slump. → Read More
Winners Taking Everything in Relentless Five-Week Nasdaq Surge
Russell 2000 lags Nasdaq 100 by 7 percentage points in 2 weeks. → Read More
When Tesla Hits the S&P 500, It’ll Spark the Wildest Passive Trade Ever
Elon Musk’s company would be the largest ever added to the index, and its inclusion would spark an “all-hands” trading moment. → Read More
Stocks Decline in Busy Earnings Week; Bonds Climb: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks looked set to for a muted start to trading Tuesday after their U.S. counterparts closed higher on speculation the Federal Reserve will reinforce its dovish message. Gold steadied at a record, while the dollar remained under pressure. → Read More
Stocks Jump to More Than Month High; Dollar Falls: Markets Wrap
Stocks and U.S. equity futures jumped, while the dollar weakened to a one-month low on signs that scientists are making progress in developing a vaccine for coronavirus. → Read More
Stocks Decline After Reaching Covid Crash High: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks were set to gain on Monday as investors looked to the start of earnings season on Wall Street for further clues on how companies are planning for the future. Currency markets saw muted moves in early trading, while futures on Asia-Pacific stock indexes were higher. → Read More
Calendar Reads 2020 But the Stock Market Has Moved On to 2021
What explains the resiliency of the U.S. stock market, despite the worst economic data in most of our lifetimes? Susan Schmidt, head of U.S. equities at Aviva Investors in Chicago, says the market is already looking ahead to next year. → Read More
Drastic Makeover Looms for World’s Most Followed Stock Index
The workings of passive investment indexes in times of crisis is already a subplot of the virus drama following histrionics in the oil market. It’s shaping up as a flashpoint in stocks, too, as overseers wrestle with pushing the eject button on wounded companies. → Read More
U.S. Stocks Sink in Worst Day Since Black Monday: Markets Wrap
In a week that brought the wildest market swings since the financial crisis, Thursday hammered investors with something crazier -- a 10% drop in the Dow, the end of the longest bull market on record and the biggest sell-off since 1987’s Black Monday. → Read More
High-Beta Stock Trade That Saved 2019 Serves Notice of Its Risks
High-beta stocks, occupants of the market’s frenetic edge, were the names everyone wanted to own in the fourth quarter, when they rallied on signs of peace. It’s a taste that may not survive the geopolitical dramas of Friday. → Read More
U.S. Stocks Sink, Havens Jump on Mideast Flare-Up: Markets Wrap
Bloomberg Bloomberg | Quint is a multiplatform, Indian business and financial news company. We combine Bloomberg’s global leadership in business and financial news and data, with Quintillion Media’s deep expertise in the Indian market and digital news delivery, to provide high quality business news, insights and trends for India’s sophisticated audiences. → Read More
Dow’s 800-point nose-dive sets off recession alarms
“There are too many negatives at this point. What Trump is saying and what the Fed is saying is no longer enough,” an expert says. → Read More
Price of Prudence Is Nothing But Pain as Stock Dips Get Shorter
It’s a painful irony that in 2019, amid a rally that has added $5 trillion to U.S. equity values, Wall Street’s biggest obsession has been protecting against losses. All year long, investors have shunned stocks for bonds, sending more than $250 billion into fixed income while pulling $144 billion from equities. → Read More
Want to understand markets in 2019? Look to passive flows
Real estate, communications, utilities and consumer staples funds have seen the most appetite, with every other sector experiencing outflows. → Read More
Trump Unleashed Animal Spirits and Then He Crushed Them
If there was one thing investors thought they knew about Donald Trump, it was that he was on their side. He was the president who was going to reflate the economy, unleash animal spirits and drive up returns. → Read More
Tumbling Stocks, Spiking Volatility: Investors Brace for Open
(Bloomberg) -- Investors braced for an ugly start to regular stock trading in New York after a pair of tweets from President Donald Trump plunged the trade-talk process into doubt. U.S. equity futures fell sharply and volatility spiked after Trump threatened to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods at the end of the week. Amid an unclear response from Beijing and holidays in Japan and London, traders… → Read More