China may be our biggest adversary, but the health of their economy and markets are important to the U.S. They are a major trading partner and their markets contribute to overall global stability. Chinese policymakers are finally alarmed enough to shift out of low...
At the end of June, the six month performance spread between the cap-weighted S&P 500 and equal-weighted S&P 500 was the highest in over 20 years, going back to March 2000. If an investor didn’t have heavy exposure to the Mag-7, their portfolio went nowhere...
August was a roller coaster for stocks. Moves lower in a roller coaster market can be terrifying, and in the first three trading days of August, investors had to contend with economic data showing what looked like a sharply decelerating economy and the unwind of the...
Stocks remain in an uptrend whether you look at short-term or long-term indicators. We will focus here on the longer-term, the 200-day moving average. As shown in the graph below, the S&P 500’s 200-day continues to make another leg higher and has yet to roll...
Just when it seemed mega-caps may never go down and small-caps may never go up again, we have seen a short-term reversal of epic proportions. The tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 is down about 8% while the small-cap Russell 2000 is up almost 10% over the last 13 trading days. ...
