Due to travel schedules, this week’s Market Outlook will be exclusively the Big View bullets and the “one thing.”
The “one thing” is an exercise I practice in our weekly members-only mentoring sessions, which involves answering the question, “If you …
Hello Gaugers. Hope it was a profitable and more enjoyable week in the markets for you (then last).
The Stock and Bond markets think the door has closed or is about to close on future rate hikes. Stocks soared and …
Hello Gaugers. Hope you have weathered the volatile and negative stock (and bond) markets. We have described the negative cycle trends that can and do often take place in September-October. 2023 has certainly been amplified.
As all of us are …
Happy weekend Gaugers. Thanks for tuning in.
It was an ugly week in both the bond and stock markets.
Headlines did their part to keep investors in a selling mood.
Geopolitical risk continued to rule the markets. Uncertainty in the …
Hello Gaugers. Hope that you have had a good week and are dealing with many of the ongoing distractions plaguing us all.
I was on a long flight at the beginning of this week. We hit a couple of rough …
US equity markets were under extreme pressure in September and part of August as the Fed has been relentless in trying to bring inflation down. The jump in interest rates has been extreme, ranking as one of the biggest moves …
Equity markets have been under extreme pressure over the past month (-5% on average), hit by waves of selling. The divergence in performance YTD between the NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) and the Russell 2000 (IWM) is 33%, hitting extreme levels that …
Hello Gaugers. Thank you for tuning in again. This is being written on Thursday evening, so I'm not quite sure what tomorrow (Friday) brings, but today we saw some added fear come back into the market. It was the biggest …
Hello Gaugers. Hope that you had a profitable week and are beginning to enjoy the late summer/early fall seasonal changes. I know it is beginning to get much cooler at night, and daylight seems to be getting shorter. If you …
Hello Gaugers. Hope that you had a good, shortened week after the Labor Day holiday. For me, I was dealing with COVID, which came on abruptly last weekend and left as fast as it arrived (Thankfully).
I think one of …
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