How Ominous Is This Long-Term S&P 500 Sell Signal?
The other day, we wrote a post about one of the continuing longer-term positives in the market: the persistent new highs in the NYSE Advance-Decline…
Next Act In The Greek Stock Tragedy: 640? On May 14, we noted the long-term challenges facing Greece’s stock market and that “another Greek tragedy was forthcoming”.…
This Global Economic Indicator Just Hit A 30-Year Low
Our post and Chart Of The Day on Tuesday focused on the 5-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate. The impetus for mentioning it was due to the…
Yesterday’s 90% Down Day Half-Full Or Half-Empty?
We’ve written a few posts about 90% Volume Days in the past. As a refresher, we are referring to days when at least 90% of…
For Once, A POSITIVE Small Cap Divergence
We spent a lot of “ink” last year talking about the negative divergences among small cap stocks (i.e., small caps struggled while large caps or…
Belgium Stock Market At Potential Confluence Of Resistance In December, we noted the relative strength of the Northern European stock markets. This included Belgium. Additionally,…
Deflationary Pressure Is Building
Today we take a rare foray out of the financial markets and into economic territory. With the race to debase currencies by central banks around…
Options Traders Growing Their Hedges
Last Thursday, we mentioned that traders in equity options on the International Securities Exchange exhibited a rare (though recently, less-so) display of cautious behavior on back…
Are Bears Missing The Forest For The Trees?
With all of the concerns that we and others have mentioned recently regarding the current health of the stock market, sometimes the big picture can…
Is Indonesia The Next Tiger Cub To Break Out? The “Asian Tigers” moniker, as many investors may be aware, refers to the economies of Hong…