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Here we go again in the stock market. After reaching a record high in early October 2018, the stock market correction took all of the leading equity indices appreciably lower throughout the fourth quarter of last year. In late December, when stocks were looking their ugliest, the market turned...
On a special podcast edition of Market Week in Review, Senior Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman and Research Analyst Brian Yadao discussed the escalating U.S.-China trade war, flash Purchasing Managers' Index ((PMI)) numbers for May and the potential for changes to monetary policy in Au...
Markets are not too expensive, or too cheap. As Russ explains, that offers a clue into what could cause the next move. Stock markets have been more wobbly of late. While the proximate cause was an unexpected deterioration (collapse?) in trade talks with China, many investors were getting n...
The S&P 500 earnings yield was 6.05% as of Friday's close, and the 2nd week in a row where the key benchmark's earnings yield was above 6%. There was a string of 22 consecutive weeks from October 5th, 2018 to February 22nd, 2019, where every week the S&P 500 earnings yield was above ...
By Catherine Yoshimoto, director, product management It would be tough to argue that low market volatility hasn't had a good run. But between the selloff at the end of last year and the more recent turbulence triggered by trade war concerns, it would appear we could be nearing the end of t...
We have arrived at revisions season once again. It's that time of year when many if not most (I don't actually keep track) of economic accounts undergo heightened scrutiny. More data is collected from more comprehensive surveys using far larger samples. These are compared to the existing high ...
Just four weeks ago, I discussed that things were getting a little frothy in my article "S&P-500: Sentiment Getting Complacent," and discussed that it wasn't an ideal time to be starting new positions. Bullish sentiment was through the roof, less experienced traders were pressing their...
With the U.S. intensifying its battle via restrictions on exports of technology to China, the trade war is increasingly showing signs of becoming a tech war. Broad market reaction to the latest developments has been surprisingly subdued. Maybe investors believe the impact will be isolated to j...
Trade headlines have continued to have a negative impact on stock prices and, in turn sentiment levels, over the past week. The AAII investor sentiment survey saw bullish sentiment decline sharply once again this week, falling to 24.71% compared to 29.82% last week. To think that just two ...
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...