Tag: s&p 500
Why Equities Aren’t Taking Cues From The US Economy
One of the great disconnects for investors over the past few years revolves around the resiliency and determination of US Equities in the face...
Chart of the Day: S&P 500 Defensive Sectors Trouncing Cyclical Peers
Check out the S&P 500 (SPX - Quote) on almost any timeframe and you'll notice one all-pervasive theme about recent market activity: defensive sectors...
Did Tuesday Provide A Bullish Signal For Stocks?
Major indexes find themselves at a critical juncture. On one hand, longer-term patterns are clearly bullish, the October recovery was such a statistical outlier...
Up/Down Market Volume A Near-Term Concern For Stocks
On Monday, I sent out the weekly market commentary and talked about the issue of taking the escalator up and the windows down. I...
Why The Stocks To Bonds Ratio Is Important Into 2015
Every now and then it’s helpful to check in on the stocks to bonds ratio and see how it’s acting. This has been particularly...
Cheers: Market Valuations are only 91% above 100-Year Averages!
Do high market valuations matter to stock market performance? My thought on this: They don’t matter until they matter!
My good friend, Doug Short of...
S&P 500: Near-Term Distribution Patterns Emerging
We ended last week with some kind of distribution forces in the S&P 500Â (SPX - Quote) as a negative outside day pattern developed. This...
S&P 500 At Resistance: What’s Next For Stocks?
The relentless grind higher continues for the S&P 500 (SPX - Quote), as the broad equity index recorded a record high closing of 2072.83...
SP 500 Update: Oops, Central Banks Did It Again
It's the rally that just doesn't want to exhale. And this morning the S&P 500Â (SPX - Quote) has taken market shorts to the brink....
Is The High Yield Divergence A Subtle Warning For US Equities?
Markets peaks are generally not event driven, but rather take time to develop. However, there oftentimes are very subtle warning signs that show up...