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Should You Break Up With Stocks?
In a February 9 post titled Seasonal Trend Says Date This Market, Don’t Commit, we looked at historical market tendencies when a weak January was…
Seasonal Trend Says Date This Market, Don’t Commit
The stock market chop continued last week with major indices rallying from the bottom of the 2-month range to back near the top. With Valentine’s…
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…
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…
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…
IPO Proceeds Soar In 2014
As we touched on many times throughout the year (especially in recent weeks), 2014 was a year of records in the U.S. stock market. Thanks…
2014 Charts Of The Year
As we wrap up our first “real” year among the financial social media/blogger ranks, we look back on what we consider to be our most…
2014: The Most SKEWed Year On Record For Stocks
We’ve covered the CBOE SKEW in several posts during 2014, and for good reason. Its behavior this year has been unlike anything we’ve seen before,…
Part 4: An Unprecedented Rally
European Space Agency image of Comet 67P as seen from the Rosetta spacecraft which recently made an unprecedented landing on the surface of the comet.…