News Brief from AXA Equitable: Highlights from recent notable market news reports March 9, 2012 The Sword of Damocles hangs less ominously over Europe, for the time being anyway. Stock markets tumbled early in the week but eventually regained footing as investors reacted to soft European economic data and nervously watched developments in Greece‘s debt [...]
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High Anxiety Over the Eurozone
News Brief from AXA Equitable: Highlights from recent notable market news reports December 16, 2011 Uncertainty over how the eurozone financial crisis will play out is dominating investment decisions and overshadowing fundamentals driving earnings (“BlueCrest’s Platt Says Europe Banks Insolvent as Bass Sees Run,” by Jesse Westbrook and Saijel Kishan, Dec. 15, 2011, Bloomberg). Michael [...]
U.S. Stocks and the Euro in Sync
News Brief from AXA Equitable: Highlights from recent notable market news reports December 9, 2011 Movements up and down in U.S. stocks have been more in sync with moves in the euro during 2011 than at any other time over the previous 11 years, according to Bloomberg data (“DJIA 14,000 Depends on U.S. Saying We’re [...]
No Such Thing as Santa Rally?
News Brief from AXA Equitable: Highlights from recent notable market news reports December 2, 2011 December often brings a “Santa Claus Rally” – a year-end surge in equities that spills into the new year – but fears abound this time will be different because of the European debt crisis (“No Year-End Stock Surge in Sight,” [...]
Tracking a Bear
News Brief from AXA Equitable: Highlights from recent notable market news reports Oct. 10, 2011 Exactly what is a “bear market” and why should we care? That’s the question a recent Wall Street Journal article addresses (“If It Looks Like a Bear …,” by Jason Zweig, Oct. 8, 2011, The Wall Street Journal). According to [...]
