[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets After yesterday’s “good news” by the Fed that interest rates will be hiked, which produced a nice rally, today’s action was range bound as the major indexes hovered close to the unchanged line with only the Nasdaq eking out a meager +0.01% gain. To get upward momentum soaring again, we need more news …
Fed Raises Rates Despite Weakening GDP
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets You’d think that, as we’ve seen in the past, that a rate hike would cause the dollar to rally, but you would have been wrong. Instead, the greenback got absolutely hammered (see chart below) and lost -1.22% as the Fed stepped in and hiked interest rates by an expected 0.25%. That hike came …
Uncertainty Reigns
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets Market nervousness and uncertainty prevailed as all eyes were feasted on the Fed ahead of their widely anticipated rate hike due to be announced tomorrow late morning. The longer term effect of such a hike remains subject to much speculation, as the Fed will be raising rates into a weakening economy with a …
Drifting Nowhere
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the Markets I did not except much market movement ahead of the Fed’s interest rate decision on Wednesday, and that’s exactly what happened as the major indexes vacillated in a tight range ending little changed on low volume. Behind the scenes, some divergence has become apparent as the number of S&P companies above their 50-day …
One Man’s Opinion: The Seven Stages To A Bear Market For Bonds
By Michael Carino We have just lived through the most spectacular global bull market run for the fixed income markets. This bull market rallied the bond market to the lowest yields ever! Over a third of all global fixed income was trading with a negative yield. The most accommodative central bank policies made heroes out of bond fund managers. Bond …
ETFs On The Cutline – Updated Through 03/10/2017
Below please find the latest High Volume ETFs Cutline report, which shows how far above or below their respective long-term trend lines (39 week SMA) my currently tracked ETFs are positioned. This report covers the HV ETF Master List from Thursday’s StatSheet and includes 366 High Volume ETFs ETFs, defined as those with an average daily volume of more than …