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This Day In Market History: Vanguard Launches First Index Investment Trust
Monday, August 23, 2021 - 9:21am | 243Read More...Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? In 1976, The Vanguard Group launched the First Index Investment Trust, the first retail index fund. Now known as the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (NYSE: VOO), it is one of the biggest...
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Chamath Palihapitiya's 14 SPAC, PIPE Deals: Tracking Lifetime Performance — And The Past Week's
Saturday, March 6, 2021 - 5:22pm | 1146Read More...Chamath Palihapitiya has been labeled the King of SPACs and it could be for good reason. On Friday, investors got an update from Palihapitiya on how his SPAC investments have performed since inception, in 2021 and during the past down week. The Palihapitiya SPACs: Palihapitiya has plans to bring...
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What To Know About Dave Portnoy And The New BUZZ Social Media Sentiment ETF
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 12:02pm | 829Read More...An exchange-traded fund will launch this week seeking to take advantage of tracking mentions of stocks on the internet to beat the overall market. The company behind the ETF's index has partnered with one of the biggest internet personalities to help with the launch. What Happened: The VanEck...
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Elon Musk's 2018 Compensation Plan May Hurt S&P 500 Inclusion
Sunday, September 13, 2020 - 11:20am | 454Read More...Shareholders of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) approved a compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk back in 2018 that may complicate future inclusion in the S&P 500. What Happened: The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Tesla could be disqualified for a long time from S&P 500...
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China Stocks Plummet, As 17K Coronavirus Cases, First Death Outside The Country Confirmed
Monday, February 3, 2020 - 12:17am | 462Read More...Markets in China tumbled significantly in early trade on Monday (Beijing time) over coronavirus fears. What Happened The markets opened after the Lunar holiday, which was extended due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, after having last traded on January 23. The death toll from the virus...
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Rising Gas Prices May Cause Chain Reaction; Cost Flux on Store Shelves Will Result
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 10:34am | 562Read More...In these trying times, consumers throughout the U.S. have become experts at searching for mark-downs and hunting for deals on food, clothing and anything that can be store-bought. Heck, there's even a show on TLC that highlights the lives of extreme “couponers”! Unfortunately for American...
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Late Night S&P500 Futures Update (SPX)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 2:27am | 651Read More...IS the hangover from all the partying this market has done the past two months finally setting in?... Before you read any further i would like you to re-read last night's late night S&P update. Please focus on ES_F levels and the reasons behind why they were significant, specifically 1215....
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Late Session Sell Off Sends Index's Down Nearly 1% (SPX)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 5:07pm | 125Read More...Bulls were put back into the paddock this afternoon as the bears roared on the back of a 1% US dollar rally and sector wide commodity sell off. Spot gold futures are down 14 points on the day, off nearly 42 points from session highs of 1424. The E-mini contract closed the regular session down .80%...
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Nightly S&P500 Futures Update (SPX)
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:33pm | 205Read More...The after hours session tonight has been fairly active following CSCO's EPS. What makes Cisco selling so significant is the fact it is a large component of the index's. You can see the Nasdaq and ES_F reaction in the chart above. The ES_F fell from 1214 to 1206 in about 30 minutes. Cisco at one...
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S&P500 Breakout scenarios for today/tomorrow...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 7:08am | 2Read More...S&P500
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Today’s Top Gainers In US Stocks Because Of Earnings (CSCO, CVS, NWS, DYN, WFMI)
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 7:38pm | 400Read More...Today, US stocks rose to bring the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the biggest gains it has experience since July. Stocks used earning reports to increase share prices as they beat analyst expectations. S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings on the average beat analyst expectations,...
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Fed Meeting Does Not Stop Stock Futures From Rising
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 10:02am | 136Read More...US Stock futures rose despite the meeting of the Federal Reserve deciding on riskier stance. The prices for S&P 500 future rose to 1046.9 or 5.2 points, Nasdaq 100 futures rose to 1679.50 or 4 points, and Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures gained 53 points to 9762. Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS)...
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GDP Growth Rally Stocks In Wall Street (BA, CVX, CAT, JPM, MMM, TRV, WMT, PG, XOM, BP, RDS.A)
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 3:06pm | 216Read More...Investors Sold off shares on Wednesday with expectation of poor GDP numbers. They pleasantly surprised to find that the GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.5%, better than the 3.2% that analysts expected. These numbers show that recovery is on track and will continue to heal. As a result of the...
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S&P500 And NASDAQ Slip As The Dow Rises Slightly (CVX, RDS.A, XOM, BIDU, AAPL)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 3:54pm | 187Read More...Both NASDAQ and S&P 500 dropped Tuesday amidst fears of slowing consumer confidence and questions about a speedy recovery from financial crisis. The Dow held on to modest gains as both Chevron Company (NYSE: CVX), Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) and Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)are set to release...
