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Corey Rosenbloom: From a chart perspective, the big news is that the main US Equity Indexes continue to trade within the clear trendline boundaries of a parallel trendline channel. Read more…
Just one week ago, European stocks had their best 1-day advance in over 8 months, celebrating the fact that ECB President Mario Draghi said he’d do “whatever it takes” to keep the Eurozone and its common currency intact. Whether it was Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: With a Fed statement coming Wednesday, many believe the bulls need a formal announcement of QE3, which may not be the case. The odds are extremely low the Fed does not deliver at least some market-friendly language in their July/August statement. Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: As outlined in a popular October 2011 video on the European debt crisis, we are well aware of the serious nature of the problems facing the financial markets. However, our market models have been telling us, and continue to tell us, to be open to ongoing Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: As mentioned last Friday just before things took a dive on the weekend, a look at the major market indices did not look promising. If we take an even longer term look and examine the monthly charts we can see that the S&P 500 Index Read more…
Jeff Harding: This week’s data builds a further case for a declining economy and likelihood of the Fed doing another round of QE. These data hit all of the Fed’s marks for action: joblessness and unemployment, declining industrial production, low price inflation Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The markets face numerous problems, including still-elevated bond yields in Spain and Italy, slowing global growth, and the media’s latest obsession…the dreaded “fiscal cliff”. Yet, despite all that, stocks and commodities are flashing bullish signals. Read more…
Ed Carlson: Lindsay’s model, Three Peaks and a Domed House, has a fantastic track record of calling bull market tops for over 100 years; often to the exact date and usually to within three days. The ability to create such an exact forecast requires the integration Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets started off the week on shaky footing as rising yields on Spanish bonds collided with pre-earnings jitters on Wall Street, sending major indexes into red territory. Aluminum giant Alcoa unofficially kicked off earnings season yesterday Read more…
Eric Dutram: The second quarter was, despite the overall market turmoil, a pretty solid one for the broad ETF industry. A handful of new funds hit the markets Read more…
McGraw-Hill (NYSE:MHP) and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NASDAQ:CME) have taken their two brands the Dow and the S&P, and put them together to launch the S&P Dow indices making them the world’s largest index provider. Many people are Read more…
Michael Snyder: Well, we just had another bad jobs report. The U.S. economy created just 80,000 new jobs during the month of June. Normally, about 125,000 new jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth. Read more…
Jeff Harding: The recent U.S. manufacturing report is at the top of a mountain of bad economic news coming out. Whether these data will lead to a “new” recession (as defined by the NBER) remains to be seen, but at the very least the U.S. economy is stagnating, Read more…
Andy Crowder: I recently came across an article from a prominent options trader that truly disappointed me. The gentleman brought up the question as to whether or not credit spreads were a viable options strategy. For some, credit spreads are not a viable strategy Read more…
David Zeiler: Stock markets around the world soared Friday in reaction to the morning’s Eurozone debt crisis deal, but noted investorJim Rogers wasn’t impressed. Read more…
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