Market Overview

There nothing like uncertainty and speculation to prove everyone wrong! What am I talking about? Well, let's go back about a month to the last Fed meeting, when the committee raised the funds rate....

Over the past week, my core market health indicators bounced around, but had no significant changes. With most of the indicators compressing near the zero line, it appears that the market is waiting...

Covered call writers must factor in dividends into our investment strategies. More specifically, ex-dividend dates for these are the dates shareholders must own the shares to benefit from the dividend...

European and Japanese Policy Makers Announce Policy DecisionsHigher political risk in 2017 was forecasted and so far it hasn’t disappointed. The calendar of democratic events expanded last week...

This morning's release of the March Existing-Home Sales increased from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.71 million units. The February count was downwardly revised from...

Today's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 144.1, down 0.9 from the previous week and the lowest since December...

The Latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for March increased to 126.7 from 126.2 in February. The 0.4 percent month-over-month gain beat the 0.2 percent increase forecast by...

I have argued that “passive investing” is an oxymoron because it denies precisely that which defines an investment: active analysis. Proponents of the strategy don’t seem worried...

U.S. stocks finished lower with financial stocks leading the decline, while an extension of recent losses for crude oil prices also weighed on the energy sector. Traders were likely exercising some...

The US dollar turned in a mixed performance last week, as yields stabilized. However, the technical condition still has not turned convincingly in the dollar's favor against most of the major foreign...

Following the November 2016 U.S. Presidential election, equity markets rallied in the bullish anticipation of the Trump Administration’s plan to lower corporate taxation while working to...

In a previous article from March 10 on my personal finance blog site, I wrote that the Dow Jones Index was due a pullback, and for long investors this pullback would be a "buy the dip" opportunity. I...

It happens when inflammatory events (usually political, terror or war related, but also including things like Ebola, Bird Flu and the like) crop up; stocks go down and hysteria starts to build. The...

I guess all of us are getting ready for Sunday/Monday night, so let’s have a look at certain times:1800 GMT – First exit polls1900 GMT – First projections based on votes counted2000...