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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...
Every three months, we take a snapshot of the expectations for future earnings in the S&P 500 at approximately the midpoint of the current quarter, shortly after most U.S. firms have announced their previous quarter's earnings. The earnings outlook for the S&P 500 through the end of ...
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...
The S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) experienced an interesting level of volatility during the third week of May 2019 as investors shifted how far forward in time they're looking into the future twice during the week. We consider an "interesting level of volatility" as being whenever the closing d...
Introduction Ever pick up one of the countless "Do It Yourself" investing books off the shelf and come across an intro similar to this? Here's a fact. The average fund underperforms "buy and hold". The average professional trader does no better than "buy and hold". Source: Bu...
The memories of the stock market correction that took place during the fourth quarter of 2018 had just about faded into the market's rearview mirror as the indices reached new all-time highs in late April. It took four months for the stock market to make back all of its losses, and the price a...