The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended lower on Monday as worries over demand for Apple products drove down its shares and investors braced for earnings disappointments. Running counter to that was Dell Inc’s (DELL) stock which jumped 13 percent to about a five-month high at $12.29 after Bloomberg reported the […]
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Examining effects of foreign dominance on Nigerian market
At present, foreign investors control over 70 per cent of transactions in the Nigerian capital market. Does this have any implication on the market? UDEME EKWERE analyses the situation from operators’ perspectives During the global meltdown of 2007 and 2008, a lot of global and local firms were negatively affected. […]
Forecast for 2013: stock market forecasts will be wrong
Investors sifting through analysts’ new year predictions for stock market movements may want to press “delete” and look instead for sound companies, as history shows equity index forecasts are usually wrong. In good years and bad, according to Reuters polls, most fund managers and analysts have struggled to predict annual […]
