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After record losses last week, Asian stock markets clawed back ground Monday as investors responded positively to details of a bailout plan for U.S. and European banks...
...Hong Kong's battered Hang Seng index bounced particularly strongly in afternoon trading, ending the day with a 10.2% gain. Stocks in Korea and Singapore also ended sharply higher, gaining 3.8% and 6.6% respectively. India's Sensex added 7.7%, while China's CSI 300 index, which measures both the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges, was up 4.12%. Japan's stock market, which last week suffered the worst rout in its history, was closed Monday for a holiday. "I think markets took a breath and will rebound in the next few days," says Sean Tsang, senior vice president of Polaris Securities...
...time for investors to celebrate, right? On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average ended up a stunning 936 points, the biggest one-day point gain in history - all the more remarkable considering the index of blue-chip stocks had just come off its worst weekly loss on record. The S&P 500, a broader measure of the stock market, saw its largest one-day percentage gain since 1939, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ jumped 12%. Seems a gaggle of European countries rolling out billions of dollars to guarantee loans and recapitalize banks, and indications that the U.S. might do some...
Just don't be surprised if it doesn't last. Trying to predict whether the stock market will go up or down on any given day is a fool's game, but one thing is for sure: we live in highly volatile times. Wild swings to the upside may feel great, but they're still wild swings. That sort of dramatic movement can go both up and down, as we have witnessed...
These days, measures of volatility are off the charts, including the one Robert Engle, a Nobel Prize-winning professor of finance at New York University, keeps tabs on. According to his calculations, which are based on past stock movements, the S&P 500 has a pretty decent chance a year from now of being worth either four times what it is today - or a quarter as much. That absurdly broad range, which falls in line with other volatility barometers, is indicative of how haywire stocks have been acting. "You saw that kind of volatility in the Brazilian and Argentinean markets...