S&P 500 Technical Update: 2 Support Levels To Keep An Eye On
There has been a significant slow down in market momentum over the past month or so. Â In fact, some investors would argue that 2014...
TBTF Banks: Setting Up A Different Kind of Stress Test
With a single exception, the major money center banks and bank holding companies we checked in on at the market's February bottom (here) are...
Stocks Bounce: But How Far Will They Go?
That's always the follow up question, isn't it?
Earlier we considered how far small caps might go after bears succeeded in tripping the thirteenth 50-Day...
Bouncing Like Clockwork: IWM’s Bear Trap Springs Again
As the Russell 2000 (IWM) broke below it's 50-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA) last week, we noted the same day that the 12 previous...
Higher Interest Rates On Pause? 10 Year Yield In Focus
There has been a steady buzz about higher interest rates coming from the media and many institutional investors. But are higher interest rates coming...
Observations On a Year Spent Buying the Dip
Like few other times in history, US stocks have just enjoyed a year of exceptionally low volatility. It was a period during which the...
Citifail: How the Fed Confirmed What the Market Already Knows
Following yesterday's close, the Fed released the final installment of its annual stress test (the CCAR) of the 30 largest TBTF "systemically significant" banking institutions...
TWTR Technical Support Coming Into View
There was no denying the momentum for Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) heading into, and out of, its IPO offering. But as the calendar flipped to...
S&P 500 Technical Update: Bears Wrestle For Control
It goes without saying that the bulls have been getting the best of the bears from a macro perspective. But the price action since...
S&P 500 Sector Analysis: A Harmonic Deconstruction
The S&P 500 revisited and lapsed beneath December/January resistance near 1850 last Friday, briefly wobbling back into negative territory on the year before aggressively...