As for the market, it continues to act very well amidst a vacuum of selling pressure. As we write this, the S&P 500 (up 1.2% or so) and Nasdaq (up 1.8%) are solidly in the green, and small- and mid-cap indexes have actually a..
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The week started out relatively quietly, with the major indexes basically meandering sideways through Wednesday, even after the Federal Reserve’s statement. But since Thursday morning, things have been whipping around (mostly on the upside) as it appears a U.S.-China trade deal/truce is at hand.
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Profit taking finally set in earlier this week, though this morning’s jobs-inspired pop has erased the losses for the major indexes.
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As we wrote a week and a half ago, there’s no Top Ten issue today—one of our two weeks off (50 issues a year). But we don’t want to be too out of touch, which is why we’re sending this brief update today, on...
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Given the straight-up run for six weeks and a few short-term signs of complacency, a bit more uncomfortableness is certainly possible; we’re open to the chance of a passing shower of sorts. And that’s probably a good reason to favor buying on weakness of...
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It’s been another constructive and encouraging week for the market in our view. As we write this morning, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq aren’t up much on the week (0.4% or so), but given that we just had five weeks in a row the...
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It's been a decent week for the market, though nothing amazing—just about all major indexes are up 0.5% or less after hitting or approaching new highs in recent days.
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It’s been another decent week for the major indexes—the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up in the 1.25% range as of early Friday, with both sitting at all-time highs.
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It’s been mostly more of the same this week, with solid action among the major indexes (S&P 500 and Nasdaq are up a bit less than 1% as we write this), while the broad market has done OK (the number of new highs picked...
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The market’s had another rotational week—the big-cap indexes have done OK (S&P 500 and Nasdaq up around 1%), small-cap indexes have done even better (up nearly 2%), but growth stocks have suffered another round of heavy selling, with many falling to new correction lows.
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The ping-pong action of the market has continued this week, with quick, sharp fluctuations based on daily (and often intraday and even overnight) news and rumors of the progress (or not) of the U.S.-China trade negotiations, including this morning’s good-looking pop. Frankly, we encouraged...
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For most of September, the trend of the major indexes was tilted up, but it was still hard to make much money—just about any stock that was near its peak stagnated and, eventually, hit an air pocket. Meanwhile, stocks that enjoyed solid advances a..
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It’s been a very interesting week to this point, with another round of heavy selling (especially in growth stocks) as a new uncertainty arose (impeachment), bringing many indexes back down to intermediate-term support.
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Following last week’s vicious rotation, this week has been refreshingly quiet. As of Friday morning, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are nearly unchanged on the week (up a smidge). Considering we’ve had some worrisome headlines (especially the Saudi oil attacks), we take calm...
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The rotation that we started to pick up on a couple of weeks ago was unleashed late last Friday and the first couple of days of this week, with just about any stock and sector that’s enjoyed a good run this year coming pressure—including...
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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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You should pick stocks the same way my daughter fills out her (winning) NCAA bracket every year: choose only the favorites.
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A new bull market is emerging, and the rally could last years even though stocks are already at all-time highs. Here are 10 reasons why.
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It depends on what kind of investing you’re doing. If you’re a value investor, your investment horizon is often a matter of years.
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