What About the Rest of 2013?

From the Stock Trader's Almanac 2013, it is known that post-presidential-election years, like this year, have the worst performance record out of the four-year cycle. But, they are still positive years on average. Gains, however have been ...

The stock market has many old sayings, from buy the rumor and sell the news to as goes January, so goes the year. And let's not forget this memorable one: Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. But one old saw from Wall Street ...

Posted 07:03 PM ET Mutual fund investors earned modest gains in May as the stock market defied the "sell in May and go away" script, rising for a seventh straight month — the longest winning streak since 2009, when the bull market started. The ...

Nervous about investing when stocks are at record highs?(Photo: Thinkstock)Story HighlightsThe market is at record heights, but it's still OK to get inBuying at past peaks paid off in the long runSome simple rules of thumb for how you should ...

A screen displays a recent Dow Jones Industrial Average. For the last 18 Tuesdays, the average has risen every time THE five-year US bull market is gathering momentum. It's now over six months since the S&P 500 pulled back by 5 per cent the longest ...

According to Business Insider, based on analyses of average market performance by month over the past 50 years, stocks underperform in the six-month period from May through October when compared with the period from November through April.Yay ...

When our Magnet® Stock Selection Process uncovers a cluster of stocks in the same sector at the top of our rankings it usually indicates something of greater magnitude is brewing. What we see right now is an opportunity in the housing sector. It ...

The dropped 76.49 points, ending a 20-week Tuesday win streak for the Dow. The Dow closed at 15,177.54, down 0.5% from Monday. That ended the benchmark's longest winning streak for any weekday since 1900, Ryan Detrick, chief technical analysts ...

There must be a monstrous amount of cash out there that is earmarked for stocks. The inability of the market to follow through on the downside after Wednesday's 138-point plunge in the DJIA without even a weak open attests to that. Until there is a ...