U.S. stocks traded higher on Wednesday lifting the Dow Jones Industrials, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq to new records as financial markets closed early for the July 4th holiday. President Trump celebrated the milestone tweeting a “congratulations!” noting the 19 percent annual gain for the broadest measure of stocks. Investors are now betting on […]
Bonds Surge, Stocks Rally After Fed Turns Dovish…
U.S. stocks rallied for a third day and yields on shorter-maturity Treasuries tumbled after the Federal Reserve struck a dovish tone in its latest policy statement. The dollar weakened against almost all its major peers. The benchmark S&P 500 pushed within striking distance of an all-time high set April 30, led by gains in the […]
Dow Rises More Than 200 Points, Posts Best Day in a Month to Claw Back Some of Monday’s Drop…
Stocks rose on Tuesday, regaining some of the sharp losses from the previous session, as investors weighed the impact of the escalating trade war between the United States and China. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 207.06 points to 25,532.05, boosted by gains in Visa and Boeing shares. The 30-stock index also posted its best […]
These Stock Market Charts Should Give You Pause…
When you’ve studied stock market charts for three decades, you can’t help but notice that something very peculiar has been happening to the U.S. stock market in recent years. Rather than taking off at the opening bell and holding an upward bias or a downward bias for the balance of the trading day – the […]
It’s the Best Start for the Stock Market in 32 Years by One Measure–So Why Is Wall Street So Uneasy…
U.S. equity markets are on an unmitigated tear, by several measures, but the recent span of buoyancy for equity benchmarks, including a nine-week win streak for the 122-year-old Dow industrials, has produced equal parts wonderment and dread. Friday’s finish, for one, capped the best start to a year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, […]
The Stock Market Just Got Off to its Best Start in 13 Years…
Things are coming up roses in the stock market, lately. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 index and Nasdaq Composite Index are off to their best starts to a year since 2006 after a powerful series of gains. The Dow DJIA, +51% closed up 0.5% on Thursday, pushing its year-to-date gain to 2.89%, which […]
Why Stocks Are Soaring: A Massive, $64 Billion Buy Order…
Last Friday, when stocks were tumbling, we reported “some good news for the bulls” which was lost in the overall chaos over the latest mutual fund liquidation discussed earlier. And no, we did not anticipate that President Trump would activate the Plunge Protection Team over the weekend: the good news in question was that as […]
14,889,930,106,680 Reasons to Fear Recession…
Traders and investors will be glad to see the back of 2018. It’s been the worst rout since 1901, by Deutsche Bank AG’s reckoning, with almost every asset class delivering losses. These charts illustrate the backdrop to what went wrong this year — and hint at what could go better in 2019. $14,889,930,106,680. That’s how […]
“This Is A Bear Market”…
A sheepish Scott Wapner dared to ask DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach an open-ended question about the stock market, and we suspect the response he got was far from what he wanted to hear. “I’m pretty sure this is a long-term bear market for stocks…S&P is headed to new lows” “We’ve had pretty much all of the […]
Sabotage? Has the Deep State Destroyed Trump’s Chances of a China Trade Deal?…
Somebody out there apparently does not want President Trump to make a trade deal with China. Just after U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to suspend the implementation of new tariffs for 90 days, one of China’s most important tech executives was literally kidnapped as she was changing planes in Canada. Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was […]