Even with Friday's big drop, it was a positive week for stocks. The S&P 500 was able to break above its recent trading range.
This was important as going into the week, stocks had been putting in a series of lower highs and lower lows (which is bad)
Cody was out the back half of last week and the first part of this week. After watching the markets from afar the last four weeks, watching the day-to-day intricacies for the past four days I see a market that is HOPING we've seen the worst. We saw two large
Throughout May the fear for many market participants was the US economy was heading into a recession. Last week, stocks and bonds staged an impressive rally with the riskiest of assets rallying the most. The justification from market commentators was interesting.
It seems for 7 years now I’ve been having to defend owning bonds in a portfolio. Back in 2010 the “experts” started talking about the ending of the 30+ year bond bull market. They told us interest rates had to go up because a.) the economy
One of the key metrics experts have used to justify owning stocks is now working against them. For the past few years we’ve seen market analysts and advisors comparing stock dividend yields to Treasury Bond yields. While I’ve never agreed with this sort of comparison (more
