US Equities hit new all-time highs as the trade war with Mexico appears to be a head fake. August performance for the NASDQ 100 (QQQ) was up over 5%.
September is usually seasonally weak, but we just had some very …
US Equities put in new all-time highs despite the rancor surrounding the presidency. The classic takeaway is that the market reaction to news is more important than the news event itself. Are you ready for a parabolic move up? It …
On Friday afternoon, news of talks with China about resolving the trade standoff pushed the SPY, DIA and IWM higher, but does this mean you should be bullish?
Will it change this trend?...
Early this year it became clear that …
Last week JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, suggested that investors were too complacent with their outlook for interest rates remaining lower for longer, and that we should be prepared for a 5% rate on the 10-year U.S. Treasury.
As you can …
Stocks regained their footing after Apple reported excellent earnings with all major US equity indexes showing positive returns out pacing global equities in general.
At the moment, China (FXI) has the worst 6 month and current weekly returns as well.…
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The highlights of this week’s market action are the following:…
The action in US equities was mostly sloppy and mixed his week as the key indexes look to be trying to digest recent gains despite a steady diet of wacky news emanating from the White House or the Kremlin. The …
Yet again, Equity markets led by the US shrugged off bad news that included the start of a global trade war, the dismantling of NATO, and frayed relations with Britain. I guess we should add a domestic tidbit such as …
US equities put in an excellent performance with all key US benchmarks up nicely with the shortened week. The Dow Industrials (INDU) ended up +1% while both growth and small cap stocks led by NASDAQ 100 (QQQ) the Russell 2000 …
Global stock indexes retreated this week with few exceptions. Surprisingly, two noteworthy winners were Russia, and Mexico. Both, no matter how you look at it, are directly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. They both improved from bearish to …