Despite the noise surrounding global trade and correlated tariffs last week, the S&P 500 finished higher by nearly 1 percent. Additionally, the S&P 500 YTD gain stands at roughly 7.6 percent after correcting nearly 12% in February. Heading into September, the S&P 500 is up 5 consecutive months and with two consecutive monthly >3% gains.…...
Bear with us…! Asian equity markets had the first opportunity to react to headlines from the United States whereby two of President Donald Trump’s confidants and one-time employees will be sentenced for crimes. While most major Asian markets finished higher overnight and European markets are flat to slightly higher in the early hours on Wednesday,…
In our daily market dispatch Thursday, we discussed the bear vs. bull debate with a focus on the bear case delivered by Morgan Stanley. The firm’s chief market strategist has outlined its bearish case for a rolling bear market and offered the $1trn market cap achievement by Apple Inc. (AAPL) as highlighting the possible end…
After a rough open for the tech-heavy Nasdaq and usually supportive FAANG stocks, the market quickly rebounded intraday. All major averages, on the heels of a worse than expected Netflix subscriber addition number and share price plunge near 12% overnight, finished higher on the day. What may be even more remarkable than the intraday reversal…
Investors bore the brunt of President Trump’s announced $200bn trade tariffs on China, set to go into affect as early as September and after a review period. All three major indices fell on the day, but outperformed their global equity market peers by falling less than 1% across the board. Although China has vowed to…
Wall Street was looking dicey prior to the market’s open yesterday until the White House validated its trading approach with China. Oddly, the details surrounding the Trump administration’s approach were released on Tuesday, but with no positive market reaction like that in the pre-market hours Wednesday. The following details were released Tuesday afternoon and as…
Written by Lance Roberts | Jun, 11, 2018 Crashes Matter A Lot In Part I – Buy and Hold can be Hazardous to your Wealth, we showed how the stock markets tend to cycle between growth and decline. Passive, “buy and hold” investors who hold their investments through the cycles are likely to endure long periods of time…...
Can it do it? Can the markets really shrug off the FOMC rate hike, the ECB’s scheduling of an end to its QE program and the declaration of $50bn in tariffs on Chinese goods? It’s not looking like U.S. equities will perform such a herculean accomplishment at the moment, with futures lower by less than…
You’ve heard the old adage, “It’s all fun and games until the Fed raises rates”, haven’t you? Of course that’s more a derivative of the more understood adage, but after a market pullback that ensued on the heels of the Fed announcing a .25% rate hike yesterday, I thought it fitting. So here we go…
It was a decent start to the month of June for the major averages last week. Equity futures are pointing to a higher open on Wall Street for Monday June 11th and after a tumultuously media headline weekend. We’ll get to some of those headlines in a moment, but firstly, let’s take a brief look…
