Oil Stocks Still Treading 30-Year ‘Line In The Sand’
A key index of oil stocks continues to hold above its reclaimed 30-year old Up trendline; however, it’s been unable to mount any bounce off…
Is Housing Stock Rally Building An Addition?…Or Another Roof?
A key index of housing stocks hit a 9-year high today – but will its break above the 2015 high be sustainable? The recent historically…
Are Stocks Coiling For Another Big Move?
The S&P Mid-Cap Index is trading in the tightest 8-day range in over 20 years; is a big move imminent? Yesterday, we wrote about the…
Stocks’ Streak Of New Highs Hits Rarefied Air
The Dow just scored 7 straight all-time highs; are there more on the way, or is the air getting too thin? When the major U.S.…
Complacency Is Creeping Back Into The Stock Market
With stocks’ steady drift through all-time high territory, investors’ relative near-term volatility expectations have plummeted to near record lows. One of the hallmarks of the…
The Thinnest New High In Stock Market History
jlfmi: The following post was published on July 21, 2015. See the 1-year update at the end. When we posted yesterday’s piece on the stock…
Brazil Stock Rally Facing Stiff Test
Up sharply off of its January lows, Brazil’s Bovespa Stock Index is challenging the down trendline stemming from its 2010 highs. With the Rio Olympics…
Mexican Stocks Ready To Resume Their Climb?
After a 4-year consolidation, Mexico’s stock market finally broke out to all-time highs. It’s been a very interesting month in global financial markets. On the…
Will Bond Breakout Stick?
Bond prices in the U.S. recently broke out to all-time highs (and yields to all-time lows); a test of the breakout area is presently underway.…
An Imminent Stock Market Top Would Be Unprecedented
The month of July has never played host to a major stock market top. With the major stock averages breaking out into all-time high ground,…