Thursday’s news was all about how Geroge Soros, famous for reaping over a billion in profits in 1992 on a bet that “broke” the bank of England by forcing it to devalue the British Pound, has returned to trading and …
Equity markets put in mostly positive results this week while digesting meek employment data. The lagging indexes such as the NASDQ and the Russell 2000 made decent gains while the Dow and SPY basically flat lined.
The longer term trend …
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This week presidential elections continued to be volatile (like the markets). Trump showed up for a rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a riot broke out. Protestors broke through police barricades and tear gas had to be …
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This week three out of the four key US equity indexes posted modest gains after several weeks of declines that digested the rally off the February lows. The tech laden NASDQ 100 after good performance …
This week’s Market Outlook commentary is brief but the video is full of details.
With 3 of the 4 major equity indexes touching down on their 50-day moving averages, this week’s video reveals some interesting long term charts suggesting trends …
Q1 2016 earnings season will likely conclude the first streak of 4 consecutive quarters of year over year declining growth since Q3 2009.
The reason such an ugly sounding statistic isn’t driving the market lower is because it’s not a …
Last week the Fed held a two day FOMC meeting, and earnings season was in full swing, but the biggest market moving news came out of Japan.
The BoJ’s decision not to provide the markets with another “fix” of QE …
US Equities Markets floated mostly upward with the exception of the NASDQ whose bubble got popped by bad earnings from Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. It ended the week down -1.5 % and lags the S&P 500 this year by 5%.…
US Equity markets returned to the party, and headed back to the bar to get another tasty beverage. Key indexes closed up over 1 % for the week. The S&P 500 made new YTD highs and is now up 2% …
US Equity markets retreated this week to the tune of about 1 % across all indexes. It was the first weekly decline in all key indexes since mid-February. The rally has stalled out in the same area that it closed …
