Sy Harding: Remain bullish because the bull market remains in place, with most indexes making new highs as recently as last week. Support levels continue to hold on short-term pullbacks, technical indicators remain on buy signals, and the market’s favorable season usually lasts into April/May.However, be watchful – because the rally is increasingly abnormal, is unlikely to be sustainable much longer, and could […]
Just as the BIS has grown concerned at “the markets’ buoyancy hinges on central banks’ every word and deed.,” the following two charts show, perhaps more worryingly and more clearly that any others just how bipolar (and short-fuse schizophrenic) the world’s equity markets have become…Sentiment has been totally crazy.. swinging from utterly dysphoric to complacently euphoric and back to ‘brink […]
Gold Up 11% in Euro This Year As Currency Wars IntensifyGold has risen 11% versus the euro in 2015
Builds on 12% gains against the euro in 2014
Sentiment poor despite reasonable performance
Gold performing well considering significant gains in stocks and dollar
Dollar centric view misleading
Currency wars intensifying
Complacency and hubris rife
Gold rose 12% against the euro in 2014 and so far in 2015, […]
We have the unusual situation in which many central banks–most notably in Japan and Europe–are pursuing monetary policies of quantitative easing, while the U.S. has been in the mode of exiting its program. The result is that interest rate differential trends across the world–as well as relative economic growth–increasingly support the U.S. dollar. Indeed, as we can see from the […]
Benchmarks suffered huge losses on Tuesday as rate hike fears strengthened the U.S. dollar to a multi-year high against major currencies including the euro. Last week’s strong U.S. job numbers injected fears among investors that the Fed may raise interest rate sooner-than-expected. Moreover, stronger dollar had a negative impact on oil prices yesterday. The blue-chip index witnessed its biggest one-day […]
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — About 10 hours ahead of the start of U.S. stock trading in New York, share-index futures were implying a moderately higher open for the Wednesday session. Futures for the S&P 500 SPX, +1.26% Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.47% and Nasdaq 100 all pointed to a 0.3% gain at the start of trade. While the futures […]
By Michael Snyder, on March 9th, 2015Is this the end of the last great run for the U.S. stock market? Are we witnessing classic “peaking behavior” that is similar to what occurred just before other major stock market crashes? Throughout 2014 and for the early stages of 2015, stocks have been on quite a tear. Even though the overall […]
Benchmarks ended in negative territory on Friday as upbeat nonfarm payroll data reignited fears about sooner-than-expected interest rate hike. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate declined to six and a half year low in February. The S&P 500 witnessed its biggest one-day decline in last two months on Friday. Moreover, benchmarks finished in the red for the second consecutive week.For a look […]
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Price Action Impressive Volume Not So MuchMarket price action has been impressive by any respect. Despite persistent bad news from around the world, and numerous internal red flags, the NYSE advance decline line continues to trade near new highs, and the market marches higher […]
MOST investors and stock market traders actually do not understand what influences the price movement of the stock market. I know that I have expressed that same idea so many times but it bothers me to hear the misconceptions that people in the stock market hold.People become confused because there are so many different ‘reasons’ that the experts give for […]
