In a holiday shortened trading week, investors began trading with markets under pressure Tuesday, ahead of quarterly reports from the likes of Netflix (NFLX) and IBM (IBM). When it was all said and done for Tuesday’s session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell some .52% with Boeing (BA) announcing that it doesn’t expect regulators…
It was another strong week for the major averages. The S&P 500 (SPX) closed the second week of 2020 with another record high, closing at 3329.62. The index is up 3.06% already YTD and up 1.97% from last Friday. Thus far, for 3 consecutive years January has started off rather strongly. Of course, the strong…
Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets with Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden. Please click the following link to review the SOTM video. In 2020, markets continue there seemingly endless melt-up. We all know that when valuations stretch too far beyond their historic average, unkind things tend to take place in the market. As it was in the previous week,…
Was the phase-1 U.S./China deal a good deal or a bad deal? Mr. Market hasn’t cared about a deal through all of 2019, which gets overlooked by a great many investors/traders. The main consideration throughout the escalated trade tensions between the 2 economic superpowers has always been… escalation, more tariffs. Anything that would bring about…
Flows & Liquidity: Are there similarities to January 2018?. Fri Jan 10 2020 A wide range of institutional investors appears to have raised their equity exposures markedly towards year end. This means 2019 is looking even stronger in terms of the equity flows that took place last year. But the comparison between 2020 and 2019…...
If you thought markets were still frothy heading into the first trading day of the week, that sentiment only grew on Monday as the S&P 500 found itself with yet another record-level high and closing high of 3,288.13. U.S. equity markets bucked the rough European trading session and appears to be “going it alone” in…
As we journey forward, into another trading week ahead, we encourage investors to digest one simple truth when it comes to markets and investing: “Intelligent investors understand the importance of planning for a wide range of outcomes by thinking in terms of probabilities, accepting and understanding that they will be wrong from time to time.…
Let’s get this party started folks! If last week the market proved one thing it is this: Buying begets buying in the same way that selling begets selling. With many, if not most, market traders, investors, strategists and analysts all looking for a near-term market top and subsequent pullback; defiance is all they got from…...
Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets with Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden. Please click the following link to review the SOTM video. In 2020, markets continue there seemingly endless melt-up. We all know that when valuations stretch too far beyond their historic average, unkind things tend to take place in the market. Currently, sentiment and market breadth register at…
The first 5 trading days of the year are now in the book. CNBC wrote an article about it, to set the stage for what investors might expect given the first 5 days of the year trading statistics. According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac, when the first 5 trading days show a gain, the S&P…
