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The Dow Jones Industrial Average just gave a classic bullish signal — but traders might want to hold the champagne. On July 16, the Dow's 50-day moving average crossed above its 200-day moving average, forming a golden cross — a pattern widely seen by technical analysts as a sign of bullish...

Chinese retail sales grew by 4.8% year-on-year in October picking up from September’s 3.2% growth, as per the National Bureau of Statistics on Friday. That annual retail sales forecast exceeded the 3.8% growth precited by a Reuters poll. What Happened: The robust growth in Chinese retail...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average finds itself ensnared below a critical threshold and wrestling to regain its footing Monday. Having breached the support of its 50-day moving average during Thursday’s session, the blue-chip index, as closely tracked by the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average...

This weekend's Barron's cover story explores how investors can benefit from the shift to green energy. Other featured articles discuss value stocks to ride the economic recovery, what the spike in bond yields means for stocks, and tech stocks resisting the sector downturn. Also, the...

Benzinga has examined prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included pharmaceutical and semiconductor leaders. And bearish calls included a fresh IPO and a struggling retailer. The first week of the second quarter was a relatively quiet one for the big three...

Generally speaking, the bigger the size of the company, the more difficult it is to grow. This concept was front-and-center after two major Dow components signaled to investors growing their business isn't an easy task. Procter & Gamble Shares of Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE: PG) were trading...

The Pentagon announced Friday that it had launched an airstrike against Islamic militants (originally operating as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but recently renamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in northern Iraq. This came just hours after President Barack Obama said the...

JC Parets is the founder and president of Eagle Bay Capital and holds the Chartered Market Technician designation (CMT) and is the New York City Chapter Chair of the Market Technicians Association. Parets is a regular guest on many news outlets and dropped by for a chat on Benzinga's #...

April turned out to be a pretty good month for stocks. Surprisingly good. The Dow Jones Industrials, which had been down as much as 7.3 percent for the year on February 3, finished in the black for the year for the first time. That said, not all stocks had particularly good months. Biotechs...

U.S. stock futures were pointing towards a modestly higher open as investors found enough optimism from Dow components Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson who both reported better than expected quarterly results. Investors were further spooked by reports of pro-Russian separatists taking...

The Nasdaq index traded above 4,000 for the first time since 2000. The other major indices were flat for the day as markets couldn't hold on to early gains that were boosted by an international accord with Iran. Economic news was rather light and there were no comments from a Fed chairperson that...