US Equity Markets ended the month with big gains (+ 6 %) and made new YTD highs early this before getting a bit of indigestion. It then took a few days off this to get some needed rest before resuming …
US Equity markets dodged the horrible news of the deadly terrorist attacks in Belgium and the clear intention of ISIS to obtain nuclear material this week and closed slightly down to basically flat. Considering that any bad news could have …
Equity markets continued its relentless advance with the S&P 500 (SPY) and the Dow industrials (DIA) closing fractionally positive for the first time this year. Bringing up the rear, the NASDQ 100 and the Russell 2000 are still down about …
Confounding many, Equities continued its rise after a very shaky start to the year. In one of the most hated and under participated rallies in recent memory, the S& P 500 climbed to its highest price YTD and is now …
World Equity markets ended the week up yet again, with the dead cat bounce continuing upward in its acrobatics. This put the US equities market up over 2% for the week. The payrolls report was positive and the economy seems …
Last week we left for the long weekend feeling a dead cat bounce of about 4-5% was in order and as things played out, the cat has indeed bounced and is currently suspended mid-air with the S&P 500 up +2.89% …
Markets continued to falter and rallies sold hard throughout the week and at one point equities were down -3.5% on Monday’s swoon alone. The clue that there was more downside left as of last Friday was that our sentiment and …
US Equity markets ended the week poorly to say the least. Depending on which index you choose, equity markets were down between -3 to -6% this week, with NASDQ 100 leading the drop, putting it down almost 12% YTD.
The …
Last Friday the stock and bond markets rocked higher on a surprise announcement from the Bank of Japan that it was cutting its benchmark interest rate to below zero.
I have to admit I didn’t anticipate this move either, but …
Did You See This $8 Trillion Disappear?
It was a nasty week. At its lows this week, global equity markets erased almost 8 trillion of equity!
Fortunately world equity markets ended the selling storm this week by recovering smartly after …
