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Eric Dutram: Improving consumer confidence and a continued rise in the employment rate gave the U.S. a good start to the year, sending all indexes to near all time highs. The S&P 500 index crossed its $1500 level Read more…
Well, that was fun. I’m talking about the 63 minute pre-market rally in stocks today that followed a solid jobs report that boasted a 7.7% unemployment rate, the lowest in four years. By the time the market got around to opening at 9:30, an hour after the Read more…
George Leong: The market appears to have another bull leg with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) closing higher in seven of the last nine sessions to March 6. The blue chip stocks have been especially strong, with the DOW hitting Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: The S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) continues to trade within a well-defined broadening triangle pattern while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) broke above a key rectangle resistance pattern along with a smaller triangle pattern Read more…
George Leong: The investment climate is at a crossroads. While the market bias is slightly positive, there’s still a sense we could be headed for a market correction. But it’s amazing how resilient the equities market has been in spite of the concerns regarding sequestration, the eurozone recession, Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Over at our TheMarketTrendForecast.com service we have been projecting a potential rally pivot in the S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) at 1552-1576 for many weeks now. The recent drop to 1485 although harrowing, was a normal Fibonacci re-tracement Read more…
In the face of great skepticism and a laundry list of reasons why it shouldn’t be happening, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) burst higher in early trading today, eclipsing the previous closing high of 14,164 set on October 9, 2007. As it stands, the Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With the Dow Jones at new lifetime highs and the S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX) similarly breaking a resistance level to new recovery (but not all-time) highs, what does the snapshot of Market Internals reveal about the breakout? Read more…
David Zeiler: With the current bull market celebrating its fourth birthday by flirting with all-time highs, investors need to look hard for signs of where stocks are going from here. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: Over the past year my long term trends and outlooks have not changed for gold, oil or the SP500. Though there has been a lot of sideways price action to keep everyone one their toes and focused on the short term charts. Read more…
We spent several hours extensively scanning the markets over the weekend, and came to the conclusion that the current market environment is a choppy, sloppy mess. Although large-cap stocks continue to show relative strength, which enabled the Dow Jones Industrial Average Read more…
ETF Base: Dividend stocks are hot with investors who realize that most historical stock market gains have come from dividends. The role of dividends in investment performance does not go unnoticed. Dividends also have Read more…
Paul Craig Roberts: Officially, since June 2009 the US economy has been undergoing an economic recovery from the December 2007 recession. But where is this recovery? I cannot find it, and neither can millions of unemployed Americans. Read more…
Michael Lombardi: Stock markets [S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX)] in the U.S. economy have developed a bad habit—going up on quantitative easing and falling when it stops. Read more…
Let’s face it. As much as these self-made fiscal calamities have served to further divide and polarize the two sides in Washington, politicians love to be in the spot light. Now that we’ve hit two of the three “fiscal cliff” moments that we will face in as many Read more…
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