The email, formal and foreboding, landed at 9:38 a.m. on Monday, March 2. “Can you please call me when you have a second to talk?” the Bridgewater Associates employee asked. The call, the email’s recipient knew, would not be good: Karen Karniol-Tambour, the hedge fund’s head of investment research, was scheduled to be a lunchtime…
Over the last 10 trading days, it’s been all the rage to clammer over the weakening market breadth as the markets travel higher. The S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMPQ) have continued to set new record highs while declining stocks have been outpacing advancing stocks. Additionally, there has been some divergence in the percentage of…
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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 this week’s episode, we discuss the S&P 500 achieving all-time highs once again and how it tends to perform historically after such feats of strength. Valuations are subjective and should guide your trading and investing plan, but rather be…
Remember the bear market? It wasn’t so very long ago and maybe the question is fitting given its short life cycle? Markets have moved at an accelerated pace to the upside since March 23rd, marking the bottom of a 33-day long bear market. The accelerated pace can be correlated to the rapidity of fiscal and…
The following works come directly from the St. Louis Federal Reserve website of Research Reports and authored by Board of Governors and the St. Louis Federal Reserve members. For the original works and corresponding Glossary, please utilize the positioned link. If you have ever wondered how the Fed’s monetary policies work, this Report will aid…
Welcome to another trading week!! In appreciation of all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights and analysis, graphs,…
After another green day on Monday, with S&P 500 (SPX) finishing the day that much closer to a record closing high and the Russell 2000 (RUT – small caps) leading markets higher, stocks were poised to achieve record levels on Tuesday. All but the Nasdaq (COMPQ) had been rallying heading into Tuesday’s trading session and…
Welcome to another trading week!! In appreciation of all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights and analysis, graphs,…
Another day on Wall Street meant another day of equity market gains, while Bonds also continue to rally and with yields moving ever-lower. It seems a paradox and concerning to many, but as Quantitative Easing manipulates the otherwise normal correlation between stocks and bonds, a new normal may be developing. I hesitate to herald such…
