SMLL News and Press, Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 2X Shares From 09/08/20

Executive Summary: Last week, I questioned if the bull case had become a little "too easy" and, in turn, a bit too popular. The implication was that the recent joyride to the upside had become more than a little overdone. Cue some options unwinding, some profit-taking, and some forced sell...

We, like I suppose most couples, spend a lot of coffee talk time wondering about the future and where life will take us. Recently, we looked into downsizing now that the kids are off to college. We just can't seem to make financial sense of it. Everywhere we look, it appears that it will cost ...

Stocks fell sharply on Sept. 4, with the Nasdaq 100 down another 1%. The problem: This may be closer to the beginning than to the end. Typically during periods of market turmoil, investors can turn to and lean on valuations. The problem here is that, for the most part, valuation on the ma...

Investors can go to school on the lessons learned from September 2-5, 2020. Each day's lessons can help determine the longer-term implications, suggesting either a turning point, a correction, or a bump. (As usual, my views focus on shepherding the assets of institutions and individual long-te...

Since the market bottomed in the 2900SPX region in June pullback, I was outlining to the members of The Market Pinball Wizard that we still have a strong potential to head back up to the prior all-time high, and even rally as high as the 3440/80SPX region. Well, the market certainly went to ou...

By Sonal Desai, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income The Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study has unveiled many insights about US consumer attitudes and behavior in the wake of COVID-19. Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai examines findings from the surv...

There are times when I write a blog article and I remind readers the stock market and the economy are not the same. By that, I mean the stock market sometimes moves counter to what one might expect based on economic data releases. Often times this divergence occurs as the stock market is forwa...

( Source ) Several days after our article " Yes, The Crash Is Coming ", the S&P 500/SPX ( SP500 ), Nasdaq, and stocks in general have gone through some notable corrections. Sky-high valuations, overextended technicals, and other factors finally caught up with the market. So far, it has...

I stated in "Out of the Box," last Wednesday: Looking at the markets, these days, it is quite easy to find yourself lost. Equities at all-time highs, valuations at numbers that make no sense, and tech stocks shooting off like Roman Candles. Yields at all-time lows, or just off them, risk p...

Almost to the Bottom I find it helpful to compare everything to the Great Financial Crisis. Most everyone reading this remembers it well, and until now it was the worst economic disaster of our lives. As far as jobs are concerned, we still have a little ways to go to get back to the worst o...