The market is also having a stronger reaction to good news than to bad news. The indexes soared yesterday on news of potential Fed asset purchases, like quantitative easing, to support the economy and the market. Today the market is loving news of trial...
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The Pandemic Creates a High-Yielding Superstar
It’s time to look beyond the market disruptions and personal nuisances caused by this pandemic. It will go away sooner or later, and headlines will obsess with something else. But the ordeal of the lockdown and virus may to...
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The S&P 500 soared 46% from the March bottom in about 11 weeks, the fastest such rise in history. It couldn’t keep that up forever and it was bound to falter eventually.
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While there are growing signs of risk, the market is, as always, difficult to predict in the near term. If it does selloff, that’s okay. Stocks in this portfolio are well positioned to endure further hardship and thrive beyond this crisis. Another down in...
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It’s been another crazy week in pandemic-land. After an interruption last week, the market seems to have resumed its ascent.
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A Cheap Price and a Safe, High-Yield
These are humbling times for market prognosticators. Who saw the coronavirus coming? Who saw the market surging 47% from the lows in late March?
The last several months have beautifully exemplified why no one can predict the market the...
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The S&P 500 is now up over 40% from the bottom in March and less than 10% from the all time high. Forget about a bear market. It’s not even a correction any more.
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The stock market rally is now more than two months old. The S&P 500 has rallied 35% since March 23 and is now just about 10% below the all-time high.
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We are in the midst of a rally that has continued for about two months. This market seems to want to go higher. While the rally has slowed significantly from the initial bounce off the lows in March, the overall market is still an...
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Maybe Too Far Too Fast
Don’t look now but we are in the midst of a huge rally, and technically a bull market. The S&P 500 has soared more than 30% from the lows of March 23rd in just 50 days. The index is down...
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The S&P 500 has now regained more than half of what it lost in the bear market selloff. We are still in the midst of a six-week rally, although it has leveled off in the past few weeks. What can you expect going forward?
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After falling 34% in record time, the S&P 500 has recouped more than half of the losses. As of this writing, the market is down just 15% from the February highs. The S&P 500 is now back to the same level it was this...
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There is good news out there. The country is starting to reopen the economy. Sure, there is a political debate, and certain hot spots aren’t ready to reopen yet. But the urgent push to restart this economy is undeniable.
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The market is forward looking. It senses an end to this pandemic crisis and a reopening of the economy sooner rather than later. That’s good news. And I agree. The end-of-the-world pessimism that caused the market crash is being tempered. It’s a very thing...
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Hope for the Bull But Prepare for the Bear
Are you having any fun yet? I’ll say one thing about this market—it’s not boring.
After plunging nearly 34% from the high at all-time-record speed, the market has staged an epic rally. The S&P 500 has more...
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After falling over 30% in record time, the market has had a nice rebound. In less than a week the market jumped 15% from the lows. It has since stabilized somewhat with less volatility. While the worst may be over, I don’t think out...
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The market doesn’t know how long this will last. And that’s why it hasn’t been able to find a bottom. But there has been some very encouraging news in the past week.
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Fear of the spread of a new virus has devolved into an economic disaster, at least in the short term.
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At the Mercy of the Virus
I’ve never seen anything like it. A virus has taken a powerful bull market from all-time highs to the cusp of a bear market (down 20% from the high) in a matter of weeks.
There wasn’t much market reaction all...
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This has been about as ugly a couple of weeks in the market as you will ever see. On a closing basis, the market hit a low on February 28 and was down 12.5% from the February 19 highs. By total points lost, was...
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