Financial Markets Weekly Overview: Large Caps In Focus
The U.S. equity markets recovered slightly last week with the S&P 500 gaining 0.33% and the Russell 2000 jumping 1.55%. Before we get too...
A 10 Year Look At The SP 500 With Corrections
Let’s take a look at the S&P 500 from the beginning of the housing/financial fiasco in 2007 – 2008 and the following recovery; albeit...
S&P 500 Technical Support Looms Large For Traders
The stealth downdraft that occurred last week has offered little more than intraday trading opportunities for the nimble (and surgical). The added volatility has its...
Weekly Stock Market Overview And Recap: August 4 2014
I have seen several news articles with headlines similar to the following: “Stocks See Biggest Weekly Drop In Two Years”. What does it bring to...
Fed Agenda? Why The Reaction To Q2 GDP Is Worth Watching
On Wednesday morning, Investors will be greeted by 2nd quarter GDP data. As of right now, it is not a matter of whether there...
U.S. Stock Market Overview and Economic Update
We continue to see the financial markets make slight adjustments to a slowing US economy. Here's a quick stock market performance update from last week:...
Is The Stock Market Starting To Show Some Cracks?
Last week saw a spike in stock market volatility. The S&P 500 finally had a move +/- 1%, ending the run of 62 days...
S&P 500 Technical Update: Will Opex Bring New Highs?
Another mini-pullback, another buy the dip rally? Monday's price action felt a lot like more of the same. Although we won't know until we get...
Asset Managers Hint At Return Of Retail Investors
Last month I proposed the hypothesis that behind the divergent signals we’ve been seeing in the market are retail investors (small business owners and middle...
Stocks Shake Off Losses But Risk Aversion On Watch
As U.S. equities prepared for a gap down at the open, investors were greeted with an assortment of headlines blaming anything from worries about weak earnings to...
