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With the Dow Jones industrial average on track for its best January since 1989 and the S&P 500 off to its fastest start since 1997, one of Wall Street's most-accurate prediction tools, the January Barometer, is flashing a green light for stocks.
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With the Dow Jones industrial average on track for its best January since 1989 and the S&P 500 off to its fastest start since 1997, one of Wall Street's most-accurate prediction tools, the January Barometer, is flashing a green light for stocks.
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A major wave of earnings news Thursday could keep the tug-of-war going between Wall Street's bulls and bears.
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer needs to figure out how to "invigorate user engagement" and capitalize on mobile, Barclays analyst Anthony DiClemente told CNBC.
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Shares in China Vanke shot up by their daily limit on Monday after the major property developer said its foreign-currency B-shares would move to Hong Kong, the second firm to have left the mainland's moribund B-share market in Shenzhen.
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Developed and emerging market equities were locked in a tight race in 2012, both generating double-digit returns of up to 15 percent, however, this year asset managers expect a clear winner.
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India's largest software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services gained the most in more than eight months in Mumbai trading after posting better-than-expected earnings and prompting a raft of analyst upgrades.
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Shares of Japan Exchange Group got off to a rocky start as investors sent shares of the new group down by more than a tenth in an otherwise rapidly rising market. The Financial Times reports.
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Amazon.com has strengths that make it a long-term investment, Business Insider's Henry Blodget says.
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A "bull run" in Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng stock index, one of last year's best performing markets in Asia, should last well into 2013 thanks to a brighter economic outlook and a rebound in mainland shares, analysts say.
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Block deals hit a record $57.3 billion this year as they become the mainstay of Asian investment banks, bringing relief to IPO-starved equity capital markets (ECM) bankers in the region.
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South Korea's first woman president-elect Park Geun-hye has made an ambitious campaign pledge of promising to lift the country's benchmark stock index to the 3,000 mark during her five-year term. But analysts say that may not be possible given the fact that the stock market is dependent more on external factors.
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As the prospect of the U.S. economy falling off a "fiscal cliff" looms large, keeping stock markets on edge, one technical analyst says falling off the "cliff" is likely to end up being a non-event for equities.