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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures added to their early gains in the wake of positive housing data. Up about 12 points before the housing report, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 26 points to 13,022. Those for the S&P 500 climbed 2.7 points to 1,427.2, while Nasdaq 100 futures rose 1.25 points to 2,037. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks...
The Dow shed one hundred points in the last hour and a half of trading. The Dow and S&P held onto some gains, but the Russell 2000 and the Nasdaq 100 actually closed the morning gap and ended the day in the red. The late day selling seemed to be led down by [...]
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures shed early losses after better-than-expected retail sales data. Down 24 points before the data, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 8 points to 12,872. Those for the S&P 500 were off 0.2 points at 1,404.5, while Nasdaq 100 futures were down 0.5 points at 1,998.00. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and...
CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA ) of Islandia, New York, will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index(r) (Nasdaq:IXNDX), the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE), and the NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index (Nasdaq:NDXT) prior to market open on Monday, May 19, 2008. CA, Inc. will replace Tellabs, Inc. (Nasdaq:TLAB).
Hickey and Walters ( Bespoke ) submit: As of the close Thursday, the Nasdaq 100 index was up 15.19% since the March 10th bottom. A look at the impact of the stocks that make up the index shows that the gains have largely been concentrated in just three stocks -- Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM). As shown below, AAPL has been responsible for 35% of the gains in the index,...
MarketBeat : Big-Cap Tech Rules All AAPL accounts for 32% of the Nasdaq 100 bounce from it's low on March 10. Add in RIMM and GOOG and together they account for half the increase.
Roger Nusbaum submits: Get ready for that triple shot whatever it is you order. Direxion Funds, the kings of levered products, just filed for a bunch of triple long and triple shot short ETFs. According to Index Universe the list is as follows: 1) MSCI Broad Market 2) Nasdaq 100 3) Dow Jones Industrial 4) S&P Midcap 400 5) Russell 2000 6) Nikkei 225 7) MSCI EAFE 8) MSCI Emerging Market 9) S&P...
One of the most popular Exchange Traded Funds, the NASDAQ 100 Trust, known as the cubes, may be soon having some strong competition. The cubes (QQQQ) have been the default Fund for the tech industry. This may be about to change. A new exchange traded fund due to be introduced next year is being planned by Archipelago Holdings Inc. This [...]
Jeff Pietsch submits: This April brought shelter from the recent financial storms with the major U.S. equity indices posting their first across-the-board gains since last October. Once again, Large-Cap technology led the charge with the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ 100 cash indices posting monthly changes of +4.76% , +4.54% and +7.62% , respectively. After monster gains recorded...
The Nasdaq 100 index jumped in midday trading Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates, and after economic data showed the economy grew more than expected in the first quarter. The index, which includes 100 of the largest nonfinancial securities listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, gained 15.19 points to 1,948.79 in [...]
Emini Futures S&P 500 And NASDAQ 100 : Basic Trading Info What are Index Futures? Future contracts originate from commodity trading. A future contract is an obligation to buy/sell a certain quantity of commodity at a specific date for a specific price determined at the outset of the contract. Future contracts are [...]
By Tennis Week 04/07/2005 Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters weren't the only winners at the Nasdaq-100 Open. ESPN2 nearly doubled its 2004 viewership with its coverage of the Key Biscayne tournament. ESPN and ESPN2 presented slightly more than 33 hours of total Nasdaq-100 Open coverage — up 10 percent from the 30 hours the network televised in [...]
The exchange traded fund (ETF) that tracks the Nasdaq 100 hit a three-month high in trading yesterday after its 10 most-heavily weighted components moved higher. It doesn't seem like it's going to stick if the midday retreat in the markets...
