The January slump for the equity markets has been downright painful to watch. All major indices posted losses for the month of January. Russell 2000 is down more than -9%, Nasdaq is at a negative -8.9%, and S&P 500 is more -5% to start the year. Across the key sectors, only energy has been pushin...
Equity indexes found a little footing this week with a majority ending the week in green. After dropping more than -5% last week, the S&P 500 wrapped up the week +1.7%. Nasdaq which fell over -6% last week, went over 2% this week. The Dow Jones also dipped more than -4.5% last week, it too wrappe...
Starting in the summer of 2020, the Quantitative easing kicked into high gear with the Fed buying over 120 billion in debt securities. With the massive government stimulus package and high liquidity flooding the market, inflation reared its ugly head. Originally, the Fed attributed the rise in inf...
Markets opened the first day of the 2022 trading year by hitting all-time highs. DJIA pushed higher on consecutive days to start the first week of the 2022 trading week. It was not all gravy as markets started to consolidate and close out the week in the red. With the Fed strongly suggesting that...
With the holiday season upon us, investors have a mound of worry to digest for their holiday plate. The surging covid cases, Fed discussing interest rate hikes, inflation, etc has been all the talk for most of the year. And many of those negative headlines pointed to a bearish reason as to why the...
Thanksgiving week has past and with the shortened week, all major U.S. indices found themselves in the red. Even the crypto market was not immune to the holiday drop this week. The S&P 500 wrapped the week down -2.3% off its previous all-time high. The Russell 2000 was the hardest hit index with ...
It is certainly hard to kill a bull market. Especially one that had begun back in back in 2009 and is still churning ever higher. While many financial analysts and market pundits were calling for a major crash for most of the year, we were stating back in December 2020 that we were expecting to se...
What a week it has been for the bulls. Last week, we closed our blog stating the following, "If markets are able to push past 4500, then there is a good chance that it will challenge the recent all-time high this week". Well, this week the bulls took control and proved us right. Both the S&P 500 ...
Well, how about that for the September market "correction"? A couple of months ago, there were several bearish articles suggesting a market correction would beget the market. Here are but just a few of those bearish articles that had dire warnings for investors:
Historically, September is the worst month for the stock market. The S&P 500 typically offers poor performance during this time and September 2021 has been no different. Last September, the S&P 500 was down roughly 4%. This September, the S&P 500 was down more than 4.7% - the sharpest decline sin...
