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Today should be another fun day as Bernanke moves from the Senate to the House! I’m sure it will be humorous to watch these guys who can’t overcome our broken political system to get a single thing done in Washington try to make Read more…
Futures are up 4-7 handles ahead of Big Ben’s testimony before Congress today and tomorrow. Yesterday was a somewhat constructive but typical inside day after Friday’s big move. The news rolling in continues to be negative, but the market Read more…
Futures have been quiet, but are off just a bit. Some digestion makes sense after the size of Friday’s gains. On Thursday, markets briefly broke below $SPX 1330-1333, but closed above it, relieving some pressure for a slight outside day. (NYSE:JPM) 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…
Michael Johnston: Earlier this week, the ETF Industry Association released its June 30 batch of ETF data, providing an interesting snapshot of this fast-growing industry. It should come as no surprise that ETF assets continue to surge; the industry is quickly closing Read more…
Futures are up a bit as yesterday, as we had a huge travel range from yesterday’s morning high to the close. There are, however, some pretty ugly candles after the IBD put the overall market back under pressure. Many momentum leaders are starting to Read more…
Michael Snyder: Global leaders have tried just about everything that they can think of, but the coming global financial catastrophe continues to march steadily Read more…
In an uneventful session, stocks moved modestly lower on Monday, on slightly higher trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P MidCap 400 and the small-cap Russell 2000 all closed down 0.3%. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both shed 0.2%. Read more…
Futures are up after Spain received some of its bailout funds sooner than expected to help push down soaring yields. European stocks are rallying this morning as well after four days of selling. China official numbers continue to Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: The term Stock market predictions is a very controversial topic and does seem to give off a negative/non-credible overtone to most traders, investors and the general public. We all know you cannot predict the market with 100% certainty, Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: The S&P 500 currently rests near a midpoint of the recent swing high and low, but there’s a key support level we’re watching for clues as to which level to target next. 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…
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