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According to Standard & Poor's, the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) paid out the equivalent of $14.24 in cash dividends per share during the second quarter of 2019. Since we recently featured a chart showing what dividend futures were predicting for the quarter, we thought it might be inter...
With less than three weeks before the government publishes its preliminary estimate of second-quarter economic data, revised nowcasts have trimmed expectations for US output. Today's estimate calls for a substantial slowdown in Q2 growth, based on a set of projections compiled by The Capital S...
By Frank Shostak After closing at 735 in February 2009, the S&P 500 has been following a relentless uptrend, closing at the end of June this year at 2941.76 - an increase of 300% since February 2009. The increase in the US stock market this year appears to defy the visible softening ...
In this article, I will discuss our expectations and price targets for an overall correction in the S&P 500 over the coming months. Until recently, we were viewing the rise up from Christmas 2018 low in the S&P 500 as a B wave of a larger correction that would result in a move down t...
With June now officially in the books, we can take a look at our long-term monthly indicators to see what they are telling us now. Does the recent breakout to "all-time highs" mean the bull market is finally back? Or, is this breakout doomed to failure as the previous breakouts have been? ...
In what may now be the leading candidate for most misleading market headline of the year, Bloomberg's " Fed Debate Shifts From Large Cut to Whether to Cut at All ," may have set a record in the financial press for being debunked in the article that followed it, falling apart within two paragra...
I’ve noticed an interesting development recently. Traders and investors are mostly split into 2 camps: those who are extremely bullish and think that December 2018 marked a cyclical bottom, and those who are extremely bearish and think that stocks will crash. I think a middle ground s...
Why do we care? The general description of the business cycle is that the economy expands until everyone who can be - or wishes to be - employed is. At which point, wages start to rise significantly. But we also, at the same time, get inflation, meaning that the Federal Reserve will raise in...