Is trading dead in stock market?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It’s been eerily quiet on stock trading desks around Wall Street and across the United States. In fact, it’s been the slowest and lowest volume start to the year since 2007.
During the first 10 trading days of 2012, roughly 6.8 billion shares a day changed hands in the United States, down [...]

Efforts to calm European stock markets crash, but fail

French bankers and officials scrambled to calm nerves on Thursday after two days of whipsaw trading that saw their banks’ market value fall and rise by billions of euros.By late in the day those efforts appeared to settle markets jittery about the health of French banks and [...]

U.S. stock market upcoming days bounce off lows after claims

Economists looked by MarketWatch had expected the Labor Department to report an increase in initial claims, to 410,000.Trading in U.S. stock futures followed a choppy pattern with investors on edge after the previous session’s plunge, while shares of Cisco Systems Inc. [...]

Wall Street plunge could worsen economy’s downtrend

The economic anxiety is signaling by two-week plunge in stock prices  , but it’s also compounding the problem: Lower stock prices are shrinking Americans’ wealth, rattling their confidence and making them less inclined to spend.And employers may become even slower to hire.
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 513 points, or 4 percent, Thursday on fears [...]

US Stock market to Open Lower as Global Selloff Continues

US stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Friday following a traumatic day across global stock markets as investors sold off over fears the European debt crisis was spreading to Spain and Italy and economic data out of the US pointed to a slowdown in growth in the world’s [...]

July jobs data information could heighten Wall Street jitters

Investors looking for reasons  for optimism after the worst stock-market sell-off since the 2008 financial crisis probably won’t find it in Friday’s July jobs report.Economists forecast that employers added only 90,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.2 percent, according to a survey by FactSet.
That would mark an improvement over [...]

Debt ceiling deadlock could decrease interest rates

The nation is just days away from the debt ceiling deadline and   no one knows exactly what will happen when the borrowing limit is reached. But even in the worst case scenarios, many experts think investors will flock to U.S. Treasuries.That possibility would mean lower borrowing costs for the government, not the spike in interest [...]

US Stock Futures Lower Ahead Of Jobs Data, Retail Sales Updates

U.S. stock market futures dropped Thursday as investors showed little appetite for extending the previous session’s modest gains, with earnings from General Motors Co. and the latest figures on weekly jobless claims to come.Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 48 points to 11770 and Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures were down 6.50 [...]

Debt Downgrade Unlikely to Push Interest Rates Higher

The humiliation of a credit rating downgrade for the U.S. would exact some psychological damage but is widely viewed as less likely to cause any actual carnage on interest rates.
Few fixed-income experts are looking for a major surge in rates even if Standard & Poor’s follows through on its threats to cut the US rating [...]

Scary Chart Pattern describe much More Selling on the Way

The S&P 500 triggered a scary technical signal — a head and shoulders pattern in the chart — leaving investors to wonder if it’s the sign of more selling to come — or just a head fake.

 

The so-called head and shoulders pattern is formed when the chart pattern shows three rallies, with the middle rally [...]