US equity market uptrend under pressure as Q2 gets underway
US equities closed out Q1 on a positive note on Friday with the Nasdaq posting a quarterly gain of 16.5%. Quarter-end window dressing helped lift all major equity market indices […]
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Now Things Get Interesting – The Last Trading Week of Q1
Last week, US equity markets finally began to price in several variables that we have touched on in recent notes. The risk-off trade led to the worst one-week performance for […]
Last week’s pullback leaves equity markets vulnerable
The pullback that I suggested was on the horizon in last Monday morning’s note took shape last week. All three US major market indices lost ground on every trading day […]
Asian equity markets trade higher on Monday
US markets were closed for Presidents Day. From the standpoint of the economic calendar this week, Thursday should provide the lion’s share of the economic data investors are most eager to […]
Confirmed Uptrend Remains in Place
Last week’s equity market performance allowed for traders to cash out on the best four-week performance for the leading US equity market indices in years. The largely horizontal weekly move […]
The Data Doesn’t Point To An Impending Recession: Kenny (Bloomberg Radio)
Peter Kenny, founder of Strategic Board Solutions, on markets and his 2019 outlook Bloomberg running time 5:30. Hosted by Pimm Foxx and Lisa Ambramowicz.
Market Uncertainty Ushers in 2019
As is often the case with equity markets, (and life in general) when it rains it pours. The uninterrupted stream of negative headlines, both political and economic, that have rained […]
US equity markets post largest weekly gain of 2018, poised to move higher
My stubborn insistence, outlined in this note over the past month, that U.S. equity markets would ultimately stabilize and snap back from the most recent downtrend in the near term […]
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” Michel de Montaigne
Veteran’s Day: Dad died on November 2, 2000. Requiescat in pace. At the age of 19, he was a member of the 390th Bombardment Group of the 8th Air Force, […]
Bottom Falling Out?
What a week! Fear, driven by multiple themes, once again drove US equity markets sharply lower across the board and the volatility index higher – though an attempt at a […]