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By OpenMarkets Jack Bouroudjian explains how sovereign wealth funds are affecting recent market volatility. The top ten funds represent $10 trillion in global market value, and the re-weighting of the MSCI Index could have major implications. "Today, the funds are playing a large ro...
Toward the end of a week during which global markets were pummeled by a sudden worsening in the prospects for a trade agreement between China and the US, President Trump announced two positive developments in US trade relations with our allies. The first was a decision to defer for six months ...
Recent economic data is clouding the outlook for the US macro trend. Although a recession hasn't started and isn't likely to begin in the immediate future, several key indicators suggest that output is slowing and so uncertainty is rising for the second half of the year. Notably, industrial ...
First-quarter announcement season is now more than 90% complete, and I am happy to report that the S&P 500’s sales are up 5.9% and earnings are up 2.2%, which is a stunning surprise, since the analyst community had predicted negative earnings growth and 4% sales growth. Accelerating...
It is a reality of all markets, whether bull or bear, that corrections happen. If one is to follow the rule of thumb that says " Don't sell the bull, and don't buy the bear ", it is of paramount importance to have a way of determining when the market is experiencing a correction within an on...
Market Review & Update Over the last several weeks, we have been discussing the potential for a market correction simply due to divergences in the technical indicators which suggested near-term market risk outweighed the reward. Then, the White House reignited the "trade war" with Chin...
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By Jill Mislinski Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending May 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 212,000, a decrease of 16,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 228,000. The 4-week moving average was 225,000...
Tariff headlines have taken a front seat in the past couple of weeks, leading stocks to see their worst declines of the year. Not surprisingly, sentiment has begun to reflect price action. One week after coming in at its highest level since October (around the time the S&P 500 hit its prev...