After the first week of 2012, Top Equity News sees the January effect in full effect. Last week, the NASDAQ (2.65%) led the way with all the main indexes up more than 1%. Not only did the index add points, it tallied at least three technical buy signals. The NASDAQ surpassed its 200 day-moving-average for [...]

That was a heck of a start for the year of the Dragon. Apparently, at least for the first trading day, it’s the year of the bull, too. Fittingly, the dragon is the symbol of power and wealth. That’s exactly what stocks did, powered their way up 1.5% and creating wealth for long investors. But [...]

Remote locations of Brazil’s Amazon have potentially large untapped oil and gas reserves, but lack of adequate infrastructure to explore these resources have prevented success … until now. Oil and gas company HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. has dispatched more than 1,000 workers to dig exploratory oil wells in the region. Brian Hicks, co-manager of [...]

U.S. Dollar Trading (US) stocks opened to the downside but the reaction on the FX markets was muted with the event risk of the debt negotiations and a possible deal at any time. The reaction to a deal could be Dollar positive but stock markets and risk appetite will be key for FX movement. The [...]

This year has been eventful for the oil patch. Natural disasters, revolutions, terrorist attacks and political maneuvering kept oil bouncing around $100 per barrel and 3.8 percent higher on the year at the end of June. Despite the volatility and large number of external forces affecting oil prices, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in [...]