Tag Archives: Nasdaq

The telling ‘first 5 trading days of the year’

This past week there was a lot of talk about the first five trading days of 2010. Economists, traders, CEO’s, investors and other influential people kept a close eye to see if the stock market finished up by the end of the week more so than they usually do. Why? This type of data has been tracked since 1900. [...]

Stock market is not reflective of economy

The stock market, primarily the American ones have done quite well since March of 2009 when they were at their lowest point. It is easy to just look at how the Dow, NASDAQ, S&P 500 and even the TSX index for that matter are doing from time to time and assume that those numbers are reflective [...]