Written by Doug Kass “Look up and not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back, and lend a hand.” – Edward Everett Hale Make no mistake about it, the stock market panic and Bear Market of November-December 2018 is serious and profoundly threatens the economic and profit pictures. As mentioned on Friday, a…
As investors return to the market from the Christmas Holiday, they are bracing for further market deterioration. Forced liquidations have plagued the market over the last several weeks, resulting in the worst Christmas Eve trading day ever. The S&P 500 index (SPX) fell by 2.7% Monday, marking the first session before Christmas that the broad-market benchmark has…
J.P. Morgan Early Look at the Market – Weekly Recap – Fri 12.21.18 Trading Desk Commentary; For Institutional Investors Talking Points for the Week • What happened this week – stocks sank pretty much everywhere on the planet this week as equity markets limp into 2019 bruised and battered. The big events included: 1) more…...
Thursday may have proved to be a signal to investors or at least traders that the selling pressure will continue to persist as global economic and political uncertainty also persists. The two have gone hand-and-hand since October. We can suggest the Fed’s “autopilot” commentary sparked the market correction, but other factors have been looming over…
At its apex yesterday, the Dow (DJIA) was up some 350+ points. All major averages were up greater than 1% going into the 2:00 p.m. EST FOMC rate hike announcement. By and large, market participants were expecting/anticipating a dovish Fed rate hike. By and large, that’s what they got. The problem then, as the major…
Since the FOMC’s September meeting and when it stated that it was “a long ways away from the neutral rate”, the market has been in a state of turmoil. The S&P 500 has fallen by some 12%+ since that time, taking out the February lows. Market volatility has remained elevated over this period of time.…
If you didn’t tune into the markets, CNBC or Bloomberg yesterday, you likely missed the Jeffrey Gundlach show. He many several comments about the equity markets, while patting himself on the back for his Facebook (FB) short. Additionally and as he always does, for better or worse, he made some innocuous calls on the market.…
For equity market bulls, the following chart is nowhere near that which you would like to have found the markets finishing the week. Finom Group has been stating for some time now, that the mechanical/technical/quant/algorithmic correction has taken hold of the marketplace. It continuously seeks out and finds most every important S&P 500 (SPX) level…
Here we are at the end of the trading week and futures are bright red, as Chinese economic data proves less than desirable. China on Friday reported industrial output and retail sales growth for the month of November that missed expectations, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. Industrial output in November grew 5.4%…
While headlines on trade and/or the White House administration seem to pour out of the media on a daily basis, investors continue to be whipsawed and tumbled about, trying to decipher what is more meaningful to the future of corporate earnings. Yesterday’s most impactful market headline came on the global trade front. According to reports,…
