In case you haven’t noticed, folks are getting nervous about tech. Here’s what the Nasdaq 100 did in June: And that’s a real shame, because tech was the glue holding everything together in the f...
The ‘trap door’ was sprung immediately after pre-opening futures shifted from up to down, continuing the alternating series of reversals seen this week. It recovered some after President...
The complexion of the market changed considerably in June as fatigue finally set in after a very strong rally. June was littered with a spate of heavy volume down days, especially in tech stoc...
Brazil’s Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles expects a lower economic growth rate for 2017. He expects the GDP to grow 2% year over year in the fourth quarter compared with the earlier estimate of 2...
Posted Jun 30, 2017 by Martin Armstrong Following a weak US session, Asia fell in sympathy with US prices and then leveled as China’s core held in well, especially as PBOC set the YUAN rate at 6.774...
Earlier this week, I attended the Evidence-Based Investing Conference (West) and spoke on “The Factor Zoo” panel. I present a few highlights / takeaways from the event before. Of course, these...
This morning we learned that Real Disposable Personal Income rose at the fastest month-over-month rate since April 2015, up 0.6 percent. Looking at a year-over-year basis, real Disposable Personal Inc...
There’s been a growing chorus lately suggesting that perhaps the record low VIX readings aren’t due to record low feelings about volatility, but instead due to the dramatic increase in VIX prod...
The S&P 500 closed June with a monthly gain of 0.48% after a monthly gain in May of 1.16%. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling “invested” and four of the five Ivy Portfolio ETFs ...