Butler: The sleep machine of stock market logic

collected by :Molly Tony

Your Fitbit or similar monitor will illustrate that night after night, your deep sleep lasts for almost exactly the first four hours. Conflicts and anxiety for many have their roots in financial concerns and specifically, stock market prospects. For this reason, most of us have more than a casual interest in future stock market performance, so what do we need to know in the way of fundamentals to alleviate our anxiety and feel rested? Economic growth, inflation and interest rates are the major drivers of earnings forecasts — with interest rates having the most impact. A 50/50 mix reduces the impact of a market crash to about a third of what all stocks might have done.

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Why making money in the stock market just got a lot more difficult

As it stated in For almost a decade, it's been extremely difficult to lose money in the U.S. stock market. The outlook for market returns has precipitously worsened in recent months, with analysts and investors growing increasingly confident that the lengthy bull market that began in the wake of the financial crisis could be, if not coming to a close, petering out. While slowing growth isn't the same as a contraction, the data added to concerns that a period of synchronized global growth was coming to a close. "This adjustment is a painful but necessary process for healthier markets and economies."So far this year, the U.S. stock market has mostly traded in a tight range. Read more: The result of all the volatility in 2018's stock market: Nothing

Here's a thought: Maybe the stock market won't crash this year because it can't

Yes, despite all the hand-wringing over tightening, lofty valuations, nasty politics, [insert any number of reasons to sell], this market still belongs to the bulls. "Companies will pile into the market at every dip and buy as high as possible. It's unlikely the overall market can crash this year no matter what happens."Historically, companies that buy back their own shares outperform the broader market. The marketThe Dow DJIA, +0.27% , S&P SPX, +0.09% and Nasdaq COMP, +0.11% are all up nicely in the early going. Bill Gross's wife took a real Picasso off the couples wall and replaced it with a forgery during contentious divorce.

Canadian stock market goes on rising - Xinhua

TORONTO, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Canadian's main stock market continues its last week's rising Monday as energy stocks performed well. The Toronto Stock Exchange's benchmark Standard & Poor's/TSX Composite Index 102.29 points to end Monday at 16,085.61. The Canadian dollar dropped 0.22 cents to 0.78.11 U.S. dollar. Energy stocks rumbled ahead, as Suncor gathered 1.83 dollars or 3.6 percent to 52.75 Canadian dollars while Imperial Oil leaped 83 cents, or two percent to 42.25 Canadian dollars. Health-care sector was also up, with Canopy Growth jumping 6.4 percent to 32.25 Canadian dollars while Cipher Pharmaceutical rose five cents, or 1.5 percent percent to 3.46 Canadian dollarsMagna International jumped 3.7 percent to 83.80 Canadian dollars while Canadian Tire gained 1.9 percent to 165.52 Canadian dollars.