Welcome to another weekly State of the Markets video where Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden discuss all aspects of the macro and micro environment that reflects in the equity and debt markets. This week’s video is roughly 1hour and 26 minutes in length. Please feel free to review the outline below as a guide for…
U.S. equity markets rebounded from their Friday’s losses in a big way, led by the Nasdaq (NDX) that was higher by just over 1% on the trading day. With Google and the U.S. Commerce Dept. loosening restrictions on China’s Huawei, the market looked forward to the next trade headline with a more positive outlook. That…
Equity markets were sent reeling, once again, Monday as trade war concerns and their impact on global growth moved to the forefront once again. What spurred the latest fears was the following headline: Google’s (GOOGL) move to stop licensing its Android mobile operating system to Huawei could deal a huge blow to the Chinese tech giant’s…
In the past trading week, investors/traders were once again at the mercy of trade headlines. It was only 2 weeks ago that “the tweets seen round the world” sent global equities tumbling. The tweets from the Real Donald Trump Twitter account stated that existing tariffs would be elevated from 10% to 25% and that is…...
Welcome to our weekly State of the Markets video where Seth Golden and Wayne Nelson discuss all aspects of the market, from the macro to the micro. Please click the link to review the video. (54 minutes in duration). For expedient reviews, feel free to skip segments of the SOTM by following the Outline below: Introduction and…
A rather unexpected scenario presented itself for investors on Tuesday, a relaxing of trade feuds and tariff expectations. It was previously anticipated that the U.S. would be making a decision on EU auto tariffs on or by May 18, this coming Saturday. On Tuesday, however, the Trump administration announced it plans to delay auto tariffs…
Equities bounced back on Tuesday after a 2%+ loss on Monday, as trade talks still appear in play between the two largest economies. But the rally fizzled in the final hour of closing as the major averages lost some of their vigor. Nonetheless, Jim Cramer said Tuesday that the stock market saw a “genuine rally,…
How deep with the current market pullback become? That’s the question on many investor/traders’ minds as a 5% S&P 500 (SPX) has taken place under the premise of trade feud escalations. Both China and the U.S. have raised the stakes in their implemented tariff battle and while talks move forward with the hope of finding…
The fears of profound losses to the equity markets in the event that tariffs have been increased were overblown… or were they? We wouldn’t let the sharp intraday reversal off the lows on Friday, which found the S&P 500 (SPX) finishing up nearly .40%, fool us into believing we’re out of the woods just yet. …...
Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets with Wayne Nelson and Seth Golden. In this week’s SOTM we discuss the vast variety of variables affecting the equity markets as they climb toward new highs. Please click the link to review the video, which runs about 59 minutes. Discussion surrounding the binary potential for market reaction…...
