Traders react after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 5, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images Investors should remain guarded for the rest of August and wait until next month before thinking about returning to stocks despite any one-day bounce,
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Jim Cramer Scott Mlyn | CNBC Investors should be careful not to buy or sell stocks based on last week’s brief inversion of the yield curve in the bond market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned on Monday. Cramer was skeptical about buying the Dow Jones Industrial Average‘s 300-point advance at the open on Wall Street, which
Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt on Monday questioned the motivation of Harry Markopolos, the Bernie Madoff whistleblower who unveiled a long list of allegations against General Electric last week in an investigation for a short seller. “One of the ways you can test Markopolos’ bonafides, however, is the fact that the SEC has a whistleblower
General Electric shares fell more than 11% Thursday after Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos targeted the conglomerate in a new report, accusing it of issuing fraudulent financial statements to hide the extent of its problems. A website has been set up to disseminate the report, www.GEfraud.com, where Markopolos calls it “a bigger fraud than Enron.” The
Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, speaking at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2019. Adam Galica | CNBC Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio said he wouldn’t rule out China using its Treasury holdings to gain an upper hand against the U.S. in the trade war — a view that contrasts