As we near the end of 2023, investors can look back on this year's massive rally and wonder why they were so worried about all the talk about recession and inflation. It is hard not to fault investors as market pundits, economists, and news media have told them for over two years that a recession wa...
Markets have rallied off their recent October low to rally this November to make it three straight weeks of solid gains. The Treasury yield continues to fall, with the 10-year Treasury note dropping more than 19 basis points for the week and landing near 4.4%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are nearing thei...
The financial markets have pulled back more than 10% since the start of August, and at the current moment, there is a possibility that markets can head lower in the coming weeks. Some may see the recent pullback as a product of the rise in the 10-year treasury yield. Others may contribute to the Fed...
A new month and the start of a recent quarter set in for the markets. While August and September have closed out with consecutive monthly losses for every major index, this week's close gives pause to a sign that could spell troubles for the bears. While the narrative has not changed since last year...
A year ago from today, you would be hard-pressed to find an economist who doubted the U.S. was headed into a deep recession. With the housing market dropping and the Feds attempting to fight inflation by raising interest rates, economists and financial pundits were sure that the consumer market, oth...
Markets have rallied over +28% since hitting their market lows in October 2022. Following market movements daily to weekly provides a lot of insight into the near-term and immediate trends in the market. And the current trend has been upward, with investors catching on to the FOMO train. While th...
Since our last blog in early July, markets have been pushing higher to where the S&P 500 closed today at ~4518. When we posted back in July, we noted a few buy-the-dip phases after breaking above the previous resistance at 4311. On 6/20/23 and 7/3/23, we saw FOMO kick into gear with the dip-buying c...
Are rising interest rates headwinds for financial markets? Or is it simply that the financial media have familiarized investors with the notion that financial markets decline when interest rates increase? This anecdotal fact has been compounded recently by the 2022 bear market and the surge in infla...
For most of 2023, there has been an onslaught of bearish news calling for markets to drop. Investors have been blasted with a wall of worry from market pundits and news outlets calling for a recession, inflation, banking crisis, and most recently, the debt-ceiling drama. And while many are anticipat...
After rallying from mid-March to mid-April, markets have started May with some consolidation along the 4146 region. While volatility has been at the forefront for most indices, we have a recent breakout. The S&P500 broke through resistance this week while the Nasdaq hit a new 52-week high. The bu...
