Trump has trained stock market investors

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according to Read what happened to these people firstOpinion: Trump has trained stock market investorsIn many instances, 'buying the news' on the president's tariff- and trade-related comments has proven to be a winning strategyPresident Trump may have trained stock market investors. Whenever the debate becomes heated and global tensions surface, the stock market reacts adversely as well. Read: This is the only second-half investment strategy you needThe action in the stock market overnight after Thursday's session was indicative of that. That is the lesson the stock market is learning from Donald Trump. Although Donald Trump himself may be very unpredictable, the stock market considers the tariff battle to be a provider of rather predictable opportunity instead.

Facebook's $100 billion-plus rout is the biggest loss in stock market history

Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant's market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. No company in the history of the U.S. stock market has ever lost $100 billion in market value in just one day, but two came close. View Related ChartOn Sept. 22, 2000, Intel shed $90.74 billion in market value as the dot-com bubble burst. Earlier that year, Microsoft lost $80 billion from its market cap in one day.

This stock market has bigger muscle than you might think

according to Read what happened to these people firstNeed to KnowThis stock market has bigger muscle than you might thinkCritical information for the U.S. trading dayIt's Friday the 13th, but the bulls should be feeling a bit lucky, given the S&P 500 stands at a five-month high. "The stock market is not currently being driven by just a handful of stocks," writes Carlson, Ritholtz Wealth Management's director of institutional asset management. Carlson also points to a key indicator for market breadth — the NYSE Advance-Decline Line. "Instead, we see the advance-decline fairly in line with the stock market. (2:31) President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Helsinki on July 16.

Trumps tax cuts are shifting this powerful stock market into overdrive

She posted a photo on Facebook moments before taking her own life — it took her family days to remove itOpinion: Trump's tax cuts are shifting this powerful stock market into overdriveEd Yardeni: Investors still have many reasons to be upbeat about U.S. stocksSo far, the escalating trade and currency wars aren't weighing on the weekly stock market fundamentals that I track and discuss below. The ratio of personal income taxes to personal income has been in a flat trend around 12.5% since 2015. In other words, it's hard to see the tax cut in these data because personal income has been growing, boosting individual income tax receipts even after TCJA-reduced tax rates. FSMI remains bullish: My Fundamental Stock Market Indicator (FSMI) is simply the average of the BBB and the weekly Consumer Comfort Index (Fig.13). The FSMI isn't a leading indicator of the stock market, but it is useful for either confirming or raising some doubt about the direction of stock prices.

BAML says investors should sell, if the stock market can't meet these key conditions

Read what happened to these people firstThe TellBAML says investors should sell, if the stock market can't meet these key conditionsFour consecutive weeks of gains in the U.S. stock market have pushed investors back into equity funds and exchange-traded funds last week. However if the benchmark doesn't log new highs soon, and China's equity market doesn't rebound, it may be time to sell, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts. The latest weekly data from BAML showed flows into U.S. stock funds and ETFs were the strongest in six weeks. Inflows to fixed-income funds decelerated to $2.42 billion this past week from $5.52 billion in the week earlier. The verdict from BAML is to aggressively sell any equity rally, if the S&P 500 doesn't put in new highs by the end of this quarter, and if China's stock market doesn't rebound given a recent infusion of stimulus.