What The Market Wants: Caution Is The Word Of The Week
After two consecutive weeks of more than 200 basis points of growth in S&P 500 market prices, resulting from general enthusiasm over the stimulus decisions of the ECB, Fed, and Japanese Central...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Sequestration Update, Hedge With VIX
It has been an unusual week to say the least. The market has declined a tad on the indecisive Italian election and the still uncertain outcome of the sequestration issues despite a robustly positive...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Market Trying To Go Higher
After a bullish performance last week, the market began the day a little off but managed to fight its way into increases across the major indices with S&P 500 closing at 1556, just 9 points shy of...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Unprecedented Move In Cyprus
This week began on a very ugly note after the IMF, ECB, and EC revealed over the weekend they are requiring Cyprus to apply a levy tax on its depositors to raise approximately one half of bailout funds...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: ISM Leads Market Down Bearish Path
With European markets closed for Easter on Monday and Asia soured by poor economic reports from both China and Japan, it was up to the domestic ISM report and the Construction Spending reports to give...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: What Will First Quarter Earnings Bring
This week began on the same negative tone that last week ended on. There were no economic reports today, but an unexpected European problem surfaced as the Constitutional Court in Portugal ruled out a...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: A Puzzling And Irrational Market
The weekend’s worries that the Fed may be planning the end or slowdown of QE3 translated into a lackluster market performance with little movement in any of the major indices.[More...]
View ArticleMarket Getting And Giving Mixed Signals
The week today started out with a confused market. It opened strong with tailwinds from last week driving investors to buy more. But hints of higher interest rates soon snuffed that little rally.[More...]
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Market Will Likely Challenge Earlier Highs This Week
The market responded well today to good economic news and to the positive and somewhat surprising response to the election of a moderate Iranian President. Some moderation in Turkey didn’t hurt...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Did Bond Traders Blink First?
Returning to last week’s thesis, which was that if the plethora of economic reports last week’s were good to okay, S&P support levels would hold and the market rise on the flow of funds from recent...
View Article3 Stocks For A September Market
Today’s major indices ended in the black, and we believe the market is more likely to continue to go up than down over the remainder of the year. That said, the market is being buffeted by a number of...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: 3 Mundane Stocks With Great Numbers
We’re off to a good start to a new week after last week’s good finish. The domestic markets are up more than 1% midday, based on a possibility of compromise in Syria. Rumors have it that Russia has...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Three Good Stock Ideas And A Contoversial Fourth
Monday was yet another up-day for the S&P 500 Index as it reached 1704.95, narrowly missing its all-time high of 1709.67 set in August, but the index closed at 1697.60, up +0.57%. The Dow was also...
View ArticleWhat The Market Wants: Slow Market Growth Continues: Consider BCOR, JBLU, PRU
Today, the markets barely moved all day; the bond markets were closed for Armistice Day; and there were no scheduled government reports. Volume was nearly negligible, so it’s very difficult to draw any...
View ArticleWhat the Market Wants: A Slow but Likely Positive Week Ahead
Monday’s market was marginal through most of the day, but all major indices ended the day in positive territory, led by the Nasdaq.[More...]
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