Stock Market Analysis & Opinion

Wall Street’s Q4 earnings season shifts into high gear next week There will be a lot on the line when Microsoft and Tesla report earnings Here’s what to watch for in their latest...

After a positive start to the year, U.S. indexes suddenly found themselves under a heavy bear attack this week. Yesterday, the hardest hit was the Dow Jones Industrial Average as it fell below the...

Recent economic data suggests the domestic economy could skirt a recession Robust jobs numbers, declining inflation trends, and hope that earnings hang in there are areas the bulls point out Some...

Shares of global airline stocks advanced more than 12% during the week ended Jan. 13, indicating that investors were unfazed by the service outage that temporarily grounded planes in the U.S. United...

A pause in the New Year rally kept things on track without confirming any trends. The Nasdaq 100 had the best performance among major indexes, but, really, there wasn't much in it for any of the...

S&P 500 EPS growth for Q4 is set to come in at -3.9%, the lowest rate in over 2 years, but an improvement from last week Despite headwinds, an early reading of corporate uncertainty seems to...

It’s too early in the new year to draw hard conclusions, but the initial results for 2023 through the first half of January show a broad-based rally in most equity factors led by so-called high...

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) are responsible for nearly half of the S&P 500’s losses over the...

There will be a lot of data this week, and perhaps more critically, Lael Brainard speaks on Thursday. Now, typically Jay Powell is the most important when it comes to Fed speakers. But Brainard is the...

Markets edged towards a breakout in another day of buying. Buying volume was down on Thursday, but indexes are only a day or two away from significant breakouts.The Russell 2000 (IWM) made strong...

2022 would have to go down as one of the worst years ever for investment returns. Thanks largely to a pandemic-sparked bear market, fast increasing inflation, and forceful countermeasures from most of...

Back in October, we began to plan the prospect of a relief rally that would be fueled by over-bearish sentiment (contrary bullish), ‘Fed hawk’ relief as we anticipated inflation signals to...

The Nasdaq has gotten off to a strong start in 2023, outperforming the Dow and S&P 500 Several high-growth tech stocks have staged impressive recoveries off their recent 52-week lows I recommend...

Happy New Year, everyone. The "Santa Rally" I mentioned in my last update on December 22, 2022 (see here) gave us an +0.80% return. When the index finishes the first five trading days of a year...