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With the month of July now closed for the market, the S&P 500 Index is up 17.99% in the first seven months of the year. The mid-cap index is down 2.40% from its high, yet the average decline for the stocks in the index is 13.5% and nearly 57% of the stocks are down more than 10%. ...
There were stellar earnings reports last week, but the market was expecting those and sent shares of many of those companies lower. Federal Reserve Chair Powell spoke mid-week, and the market passed on its usual fireworks in response. While there has not been a 5% decline in marke...
Stocks are expensive, and people aren’t buying because they want to but rather because they feel like they have to. When people say they are panicking into “the market”, what they really mean is they are panicking out of bank deposits or other safe assets. This pa...
Strategas Policy expert Dan Clifton takes us through the packed calendar for 2H21 in Washington. Dan hits on outlook and ramifications for infrastructure spend, tax hikes, inflation, debt ceiling, and more. More Americans are now worried about inflation than unemployment - a sea c...
The second quarter of 2020 saw the lowest year-on-year contraction on record. It was only to be expected, then, that the Q2 2021 number was going to outshine any period in recent history. The 12.2% gain from the same quarter in 2020 was indeed the fastest rate of growth since 1950. Wi...
Many fallacies are continually being propagated by the media about Covid's affect upon the market, as well as the Fed's impact upon the same. The market is still "destined" to rally to 4600SPX in 2021. The path to 4600SPX will likely be decided in the coming week. For furthe...
The “expected” S&P 500 EPS growth rate this calendar year is now 44%, versus the “expected” 26% in April 2, 2021 and 23% on December 31 ’20. The “forward 4-quarter” estimate jumped to $204.70 this week from last week’s $201.2...
We don’t know for sure what the direction of interest rates will be, but they are likely to remain very low or at the present levels. Also, inflation indicators are mixed, and arguments can be made for a rising inflation trajectory that will ultimately lead to higher interest r...
The BEA calculated a headline quarterly change which was substantially less than anticipated. The continuously compounded annual growth rate from Q1 to Q2 2021 was just 6.3%, compared to 6.1% Q4 to Q1. Primarily, US consumers and goods are clear outliers compared to what’s goin...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 6.5% annual rate in Q2. That’s well above the 3.1% average growth that the U.S. experienced over 1947-2019. The Q2 growth puts the level of GDP at a new high, 0.8% above the peak that was...
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Direxion Closing Four ETFs Closures Due to Limited Interest Since Launch PR Newswire NEW YORK , Aug. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to the their inability to attract sufficient investment assets, the Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has d...