In the wake of their embarrassing electoral defeat in November, Congressional Democrats are turning against the wealthy tech benefactors who bankroll their campaigns. To wit, a group of 12 Democratic...
Earnings reports are front and center this week, with more than 800 companies coming out with quarterly results, including 183 S&P 500 members. With results from 97 S&P 500 members already out...
Stocks end the week on a quiet note as they rallied up to the upper weekly expected move in the Nasdaq and S&P 500. In this weekend’s crucial market update video we look in-depth at the hist...
Talking Points: The downward trend in USDCAD remains intact. Data on Friday showed core inflation rising and buoyant retail sales. A further Canadian interest rate rise in October now seems more lik...
During a recent trip from San Francisco to Ohio, I spent several hours indulging in the Wall Street Journal, cover-to-cover. Fascinated by their second quarter Markets Review & Outlook Section on ...
I evaluated 38 different companies this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors, those unwilling to do substantial research, or Enterprising Investors, those who are willin...
There’s been a lot of words thrown around lately saying that indexing has been leading to overvaluation of the US stock market. I’m here to tell you that is wrong. I have two reasons for that: 1) ...
One of the most important new trends is that stocks are becoming more volatile during earnings season. As you can see from the chart below, earnings moves are 4 times the size as the average daily mov...
AUD/USD enjoyed another strong week, gaining 90 points. The pair closed at 0.7912, its highest weekly close since December 2014. The major event this week is CPI. Here is an outlook on the major m...
VIX declined beneath the June 9 low at 9.37. In doing so, it may have fulfilled the requirements for its Ending Diagonal formation. The Cycles Model suggests a reversal is imminent. Once complete,...