Market Overview

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators heading into May options expiration saw the equity markets looked mixed, with strength in the QQQ (NASDAQ:QQQ) and exhaustion in the iShares...

Our outlook for Earnings, Quality and Valuation (EQV) was cautiously positive. 2016 marked the first time in five years where earnings forecasts did not collapse at year-end, and an upward bias to...

Last week, I concluded: The market is trying to break out, but breadth isn’t improving. This condition often results in a choppy market. If the market can break out then bulls want to see...

Markets: The market fell this week, reacting to more uncertainty in DC, and a scandal in Brazil. The market fell over 1% on Wednesday, for only the 2nd time in 2017, as the promise of tax reform...

From the Year-to-date comparison chart below of the 4 Major Indices, it's easy to see that the Nasdaq 100 Index has led this year's equity rally by a wide margin, while the Russell 2000 Index is,...

In the last blog post, both Q2 ’17 and 2017 revenue growth was discussed and the promise was made that Factset data would be forthcoming so readers can compare it to the Thomson Reuters data:Q2...

I don’t pay much attention to the 2 year part of the UST curve because I think it is susceptible to information spoilage, distortions that aren’t strictly related to what a...

Sometimes the market narratives just write themselves.US assets dropped sharply on Wednesday, with the widely-followed Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding a (relatively) massive 370 points and the...

A Moment Of Excitement Gold – Still No Buy No…Not Everyone Was Wrong On Bonds Market & Sector AnalysisC 401k Plan Manager Review & UpdateAfter almost two months of an...

The US dollar was hammered last week, and there is little from a technical or fundamental perspective to suggest near-term movement in the direction of our longer-term forecasts. The escalation of...

The coming week is looking to be a relatively quiet one with only a handful of major data releases to keep traders occupied. Inflation data out of Japan and the flash PMI readings for the Eurozone...

Market movers ahead In the US, the FOMC minutes from the May meeting may give more insight into what the members think about the timing of the next Fed hike and quantitative tightening. The week...

EquitiesUS equities are recovering slightly after Donald Trump’s FBI folly, which shed 1.8% off the S&P 500 this week. The S&P 500 closed 0.4% higher on Thursday, after the biggest...

It’s been one of the quieter days of the week so far in terms of major news flow or economic data and yet, equities are anything but flat as we near the US open, with the events of the previous...