There remains a lot of news-driven action and crosscurrents, but when looking at the major indexes, the market’s had its second straight constructive week. As we write this, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are looking at 1.8%-ish gains in the holiday-shortened week.
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As for the market, it’s been an interesting week and a crazy month. After last Friday’s plunge, stocks have bounced back strongly, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both up more than 3%.
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Lots of Drama, But the Evidence is Unchanged
August is winding to a close, and we say good riddance—this month has packed in as many dramatic market-moving headlines as any we can remember due to developments in the U.S.-China trade battle, speeches from the Reserve...
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The market was mostly quiet (though also mostly positive) for the first four days of the week, though volatility picked up today after some additional tariffs from China and Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech in Wyoming.
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It’s been a mostly sour week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq down 1.5% to 2% even after this morning's gap up, and small-cap indexes down a bit more than that. Most indexes are testing their lows from last Monday, and the intermediate-term continues...
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Play Some Defense
Usually, when the market is doing well, stocks aren’t affected much by the news of the day. That’s not to say individual stocks don’t get pushed around, but for the market as a whole, worrisome headline news usually goes the way water...
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It’s been a very interesting week and a half to say the least, with an over-the-cliff decline in the market that took the S&P down more than 6% (and the Nasdaq down more than 7%) in just four days, decisively cracking the intermediate-term as...
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We’ve been writing (and recording in our weekly videos) for the past couple of weeks that, while the longer-term underpinnings of the market look fine, the shorter term was more iffy, with many leaders stalling out and the indexes themselves losing some steam.
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Passing T-Storms—or Something More?
On this page of the last issue, we wrote “we think the near-term is a toss-up, at least when it comes to individual growth stocks— earnings season is always tricky, and let’s face it, many leaders have had great runs the...
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After last week’s Friday update, the market had a pretty ugly close, but the major indexes have had a decent week to this point, with all posting gains in the 1% range (give or take) as of Friday morning.
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It's been a relatively quiet week for the major indexes, which is fine by us given the prior five-week run-up. As we write this morning, the Nasdaq is about flat on the week on below-average volume, while the S&P 500 is off a touch.
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Mostly Sunny—with Possible T-Storms Along the Way
Ever since January 9, when the 2-to-1 Blastoff Indicator gave a rare buy signal just two weeks after the market’s major bottom, our greatest conviction has been that the overall market had likely entered a new bull that...
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It’s been a modestly positive week, with most major indexes and leading stocks posting gains. As we write this Friday morning, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up less than a percent on the week, but both have hit new all-time highs this week.
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The Odds Still Favor Higher Prices Ahead
It was a solid first half of 2019 for most major indexes and growth stocks. Despite a few knocks upside the head last week, our Model Portfolio finished June up nearly 22% on the year. In fact, the...
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Onto the market, the major indexes had a relatively quiet week ahead of the G20 summit, which is (mostly) taking place over the weekend.
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This week’s rally was enough to turn the intermediate-term trend up—small caps are still lagging a bit, which isn’t ideal, but every major index is back above its 50-day line, and a couple (S&P 500, NYSE Composite) have nosed out to new highs.
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Still Going According to Script
Back on January 31, we wrote that the market was basically following a perfect Hollywood-type script for a major market bottom—you had a three-month bear phase that produced huge oversold readings and massive pessimism near the low, followed by turn...
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It’s been a relatively quiet week for the major indexes despite some bad news (Iran, big warning from Broadcom today), which we take as a constructive sign following the strong push higher after last Monday’s market low. As we write this, the S&P up...
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The market started this week with another sharp selloff, continuing the May weakness and bringing the major indexes down 7.65% (S&P 500) to 10.8% (Nasdaq) from their peaks. But since Monday, the action has been excellent, and the major indexes are working on gains,...
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Pieces are in Place
We’re about five weeks into this market correction, and it’s been a pretty nasty one when looking at the major indexes—from high to low, the S&P 500 has fallen as much as 7.6% and the Nasdaq by 10.8%, with small- mid-cap...
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