**Update 7/24/15: The figures on AAII’s website related to their investment allocation survey were retroactively amended and no longer show the spike in cash levels…
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Household Stock Investment Is At 2007 Levels
From today’s quarterly Z.1 release from the Federal Reserve Board comes one of our favorite statistics: “Households and nonprofit organizations; directly and indirectly held corporate…
Are Stocks Due For A Big Move?
With last month’s failed (so far) breakout in the U.S. equity market, stocks are relegated once again to range-bound status. Essentially the market has gone…
Record Margin Debt: Tailwind Or Bubble?
The topic of margin debt always seems to be the source of much debate by market observers. Folks seem to fall on one of two…
What Do Falling Corporate Profits Mean With Stocks Near Their Highs?
If you’ve followed this blog for awhile, you may have noticed that we don’t cover fundamental or economic data too often. That is for a…
Bull Market Dealt A Significant Blow?
In January, we wrote a post titled “Are Bears Missing The Forest For The Trees?”. The gist of it was that while there were certainly concerning…
A Breakout To Nowhere
We’ve spent a good deal of “ink” over the past few months on the trendless, range-bound action that has characterized the U.S. stock market recently. This…
Dow Divergences Part 3: The Double Dose
Today, we wrap up our mini-series on divergences among the Dow Jones indices. In previous installments, we learned that large negative divergences on the part…
What Is The Grand-Daddy Of Divergences Telling Us Now?
Today, we continue (and possibly end) our series on market “divergences”. These of course represent a condition wherein one index goes to a new high while…
Dow Divergences Part 2: Utilities
This is part 2 of our series (or mini-series…TBD) on divergences. As we stated yesterday, divergences (in which one index achieves a new high whereas…