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Jared Cummans: This week will watch earnings season continue in full stride as a number of bellwether firms are set to announce their most recent fiscal quarter’s statements. Last week saw some mixed results, with companies like Citigroup and Google missing, while others like Wells Fargo, IBM, and Intel Read more…
Ron Rowland: The final numbers are in, and 2011 was officially a “flat” year for the S&P 500. Without dividends, the large-cap stock index was actually down a fraction. With dividends, it gained only 2.1 Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: The fact that the S&P 500 “did nothing” in 2011 fails to take into account the performance of the individual sectors of the stock market, some of which returned as much as 15% in 2011. Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Today’s twists and turns on Wall Street came about as traders reacted to yet another day of negative headlines surrounding Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and fled to the safest Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Despite starting off the week in hole, domestic equity indexes have turned in a monster performance for the month, with the S&P 500 clinching a stellar 11% gain in October. Profit taking swept across virtually every corner of the market on Monday after investors were a bit rattled by the Japanese Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What is the broader Sector Rotation Model saying about the current state of the stock market? Let’s take a look from two perspectives: January to October (year to date) and then from the May 2011 peak to present. Read more…
Stocks closed lower on Tuesday on higher trade. For the second time in as many days all five major indices closed in the red. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE:DIA) led the decline as it shed 0.7% on the session. The S&P MidCap 400 and the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) fell by 0.6% and 0.4% Read more…
In last week’s blog I touched on the macro and geo-political issue concerning the markets: On that front, the main issues continue to weigh down the overall sentiment in the markets. The counterweight to this has been the relative strength seen in various companies and sectors that have high cash positions (Balance Sheet) and improved margins due to cost Read more…
David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the investment business, we can help select those ETFs that matter and may or may not be repetitive. Read more…
The past few trading sessions have been plagued with worries both abroad and within our own borders. While investors scrambled to get out of equities, gold has seen a spark of life as the precious metal hit an all time high of $1,600 per ounce in intraday trading yesterday, pointing to a lack of Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: What signals or clues are coming from the broader Sector Rotation Model as we see it in July 2011? Read more…
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say they like cheap stocks, I’d probably be writing this from my yacht today. And if I had a dime for every time lately I heard someone say that until things clear up, they were going to hide out in health care, I’d probably need a Read more…
Any golfer will tell you one of the most common and costly mistakes in the game is not following through with your swing. Any investor will tell you there’s no surer sign of ambivalence than a big rally that gets no follow through. And that’s exactly what Tobias Levkovich, the Chief U.S. Equity Strategist at Citigroup thinks will happen this earnings season. “People are getting excited about Q2 earnings being the Read more…
Buoyed by solid volume stocks posted an impressive eighth consecutive day of gains on Thursday. Except for the DJIA (NYSE:DIA), all of the major indices closed more than one percent higher. The rally was led by the small-cap Russell 2000 (NYSE:IWM) as it posted an impressive 1.6% gain. Read more…
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