Netflix led FANG trade in 2018, but this tech giant could take the top spot this year
A winner has emerged in the FANG trade. Netflix topped the group in 2018 with a 39 percent rally, blazing past runner-up Amazon, which gained 28 percent and Facebook and Google parent Alphabet, which ended the year in the red. [...]
The best-performing sector last year could be the top bet for 2019, technician says
Health-care stocks did not just survive a volatile 2018. They thrived. The S&P 500 sector ended the year up 4 percent, the only positive area of the market, while components of the XLV health-care ETF such as Eli Lilly, Merck and Pfizer ended with [...]
Retail just did something it hasn’t done since 2008, and it could point to a bigger rally
Retail stocks rallied Wednesday after what appears to be the best holiday shopping season in six years. Wednesday’s pop notwithstanding, it’s been an otherwise bleak month for retail stocks as a whole. The XRT, which tracks a basket [...]
One chart suggests this S&P 500 monster rally is just getting started
The Dow just roared 1,000 points higher in a single session after December sell-offs swept its internals to extremes. Before Wednesday’s session, more S&P 1500 stocks were at 52-week lows than any other time since November 2008. [...]
As stocks trade at extremes, traders see bigger comeback brewing
<iframe src="https://player.cnbc.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&byGuid=7000057141&size=640_360" width="640" height="360" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" bgcolor="#131313"></iframe><p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/12/26/as-stocks-trade-at-extremes-traders-see-bigger-comeback-brewing.html?__source=cnbcembedplayer">As stocks trade at extremes, traders see bigger comeback brewing</a> from <a href="//www.cnbc.com/?__source=cnbcembedplayer">CNBC</a>.</p> More stocks are trading at 52-week lows than at any time since November 2008. Those [...]