While Wednesday’s FOMC rate cut announcement stole the spotlight from other data points and prognostications, there was certainly a lot going on for investors to digest or brush off. Between the Bank of America Fund Manager Survey to the Duke CEO Survey, investors and analysts alike kept their head on a swivel heading into the…
The first trading day post the Saudi Arabia oil field bombings and speculative production slowdown pushed crude oil future (CLF) prices up roughly 15%, with equity prices moving lower Monday. Crude closed near it’s intraday high of roughly $63 per barrel while the S&P 500 (SPX) finished lower by nearly 10 points on the day.…
Welcome to this week’s State of the Markets. Please click the following link to review the SOTM video. Our emphasis in this week’s SOTM video concerns the 3-week rally in the major averages that has been characterized as a sector rotation rally. The bond sell-off we highly anticipated has taken form, underlying economic data remains healthy with CPI rising, but…
In Finom Group’s weekly Research Report, our summation was that the bull market should carry forward, absent any exogenous shocks to the economy and or market. Here is what we offered to our Premium Members this weekend: “One can certainly suggest that we should have expected more good things from the market this past trading…
It has been kind of a “funky” trading week thus far and after 2 straight weeks of strong dip buying activity. With the first 2 trading days of the week completed and rather flattish S&P 500 moves, investors have been scratching their heads. Many investors and traders have been watching underperforming sectors and stocks in…
Earlier this year, Deutsche bank released a chart, a proposal if you will. Why is it a proposal, we’ll get to that in a moment. One of the things we aim to do at Finom Group, as an exercise in rooting out facts, is to debunk myths in order to value information and data that…
Good evening traders/investors. With the S&P 500 breakout of the recent box pattern and closing above the 50-DMA for the first time since August 1, 2019. The following chart identifies not just the aforementioned occurrence, but the clear and present breakout of the S&P 500. But that is not what this evening’s Special Report aims…
Geopolitical headlines have tilted in favor of the bulls after a month long bearish salting through August. Remember, the S&P 500 was down over 1.5% for the month of August as Hong Kong protests, U.S./Iran sanctions took form, Brexit issues escalated and U.S./China trade relations worsened. Certain of these geopolitical issues, which have economic policy…
Geopolitical exogenous events continue to rattle markets and are creeping into the macro-fundamentals by way of economic data. U.S. equity markets were set to open lower on Tuesday and after the elongated holiday weekend, as additional tariffs were levied against China on September 1st. While that geopolitical issue was met with a flight from risk…
After a sharp drop for stocks at the opening of trade Wednesday, U.S. equities rally more sharply through the remainder of the trading day and took back all that it had lost from Tuesday and more. The S&P 500 (SPX) rose roughly 19 points or .65% on Wednesday as the onset of end-of-month rebalancing proved…
