The bull market probably didn’t die last week. But its recent ructions might offer a glimpse of its eventual demise, the way bouts of angina can foreshadow a heart attack. The S & P 500 index survived the week virtually unchanged, but only after absorbing its third 3-4% pullback in …
What do you get for the market that already has everything? All right, maybe not everything, but investors have been blessed with an abundance of advantages and good fundamental fortune, along with the policy help the market both hoped for and expected. The bulls got a dovish turn from the …
A week removed from a brutal payroll report that triggered worry over a tapped consumer and a trapped Federal Reserve, the broad stock indexes are back at the cusp of all-time highs, market volatility has returned to year-to-date lows and some investors are calling off the August hurricane watch. The …
As midsummer sets in and the trauma of the springtime sell-off fades, the markets are whispering, “Don’t worry.” With every orderly ratchet higher to a record high in the benchmark indexes, affirmed by a breakout in bitcoin as gold sleeps, a steep retreat in market volatility and a collapse in …
What do you call half a month spent in the most volatile market in years, featuring a headlong flight from U.S. dollar assets, hypersensitivity to every policy headline and a furious equity rally of almost unnerving velocity that recovered half the lost ground while leaving in place most of the …
You can’t ban froth. You can’t ban lunacy, especially when it pays off. You can’t tell the insiders or big data analytics specialist Palantir to take profits. You can’t stop the executives at Applovin from bailing up here, and you can’t tell the buyers of that mobile gaming ad software …
If the stock market’s indecisive churn in recent weeks is nothing more than some prolonged post-Thanksgiving digestion, it’s about time for the tape to prove it to ward off concerns that it’s something more serious. While the S & P 500 ‘s trend remains rather unassailable, merely pausing a hair …
People always ask me why I dislike parabolic moves. The answer is simple: When a stock rises significantly in a short period — resulting in a price chart that resembles the curve of a parabola — it goes down far faster than it can creep up, for whatever reason. Consider …
In the current financial cycle, there’s a bull market in superlatives. The pileup of “first time ever” and “unprecedented extremes” over the past couple of years amounts to a case that this bull is leaving truly unique hoofprints. Last Thursday, 87% of S & P 500 stocks outperformed the index …