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By Robert Hughes The final April results from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers show overall consumer sentiment fell sharply from the final March result, registering the second double-digit percentage decline in a row. Consumer sentiment decreased to 71.8 in April, down from ...

Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.– Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University Over the last couple of decades, there have been several crises. The dot.com bust. The Great Recession. And now, the Coronavirus Recession. One ...

"You thought dogs were hard to train...Look at all the humans that can't sit and stay." - The SPCA It has been over a month since the lows seen in March when the S&P was at one point down 34% in just 30 days. The S&P has recovered roughly half the losses since the February peak i...

Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy, and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark y...

One of my favorite indicators for many years has been the 200-Day EMA of the Arms Index, also known as TRIN . This indicator is a ratio of the Advancing Issues/Declining Issues ratio to the Advancing Volume/Declining Volume ratio. So it's a ratio of two breadth ratios, the numerator describin...

This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing. - David Tepper Another week, another massive weekly jobless claims number in the books. On Thursday, April 16, t...

We would like to start off this article with a basic premise for what is to follow: The Coronavirus, and its future path, will be the single-most important factor in shaping the global economy for the next 18-24 months. Now, that statement might seem obvious to some, but if that is the cas...

Equity markets around the world are now showing some signs of severe fatigue and could be getting ready to move lower. Earnings estimates continue to collapse, and based on my recent earnings model, the hit to those estimates are steep. It means that the current value for the S&P 500 is ...

When a shocking event hits, people are left wondering what the stock market will do. Some of them stress about their savings put in ETFs that follow the S&P 500, such as the SPY , IVV , and VOO . Others have found the chance to utilize their free lockdown time for exploring the idea of ...

Heading into Thursday's session, the S&P 500 was little changed over the past week. But even if equity prices are not reflecting it, the decimation of the crude oil market has put a dent in investor sentiment. In this week's AAII survey, only 24.86% of investors responded as bullish. Tha...