[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets An early +500-point Dow relief rally died on the vine, as the index suddenly reversed course and dove into the red by -150 points before chopping and flopping around the unchanged line into the close. This marked the Dow’s 4th consecutive decline. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq followed a similar pattern but managed …
Barfing Into The Close
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Not only did last week’s debacle continue this morning, but markets also took a sudden dive during the last hour of trading, with the S&P 500 breaching its psychologically important 4k marker to the downside to close slightly below it and at its lowest in 13 months. Again, this was a day with …
ETF Tracker Newsletter For May 6, 2022
ETF Tracker StatSheet You can view the latest version here. TROUNCING AND BOUNCING [Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After the Dow dropped another 400 points to start the session, dip buyers stepped in and pushed the major indexes just above their unchanged lines. Giving an assist in this sudden turnaround, was Fed mouthpiece Kashkari by hinting that …
Weekly StatSheet For The ETF Tracker Newsletter – Updated Through 05/05/2022
ETF Data updated through Thursday, May 5, 2022 Methodology/Use of this StatSheet: 1. From the universe of over 1,800 ETFs, I have selected only those with a trading volume of over $5 million per day (HV ETFs), so that liquidity and a small bid/ask spread are assured. 2. Trend Tracking Indexes (TTIs) Buy or Sell decisions for Domestic and International …
From Relief Rally To Bloodbath
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Today’s bloodbath in equities makes yesterday’s “rebound of hope” look like a dead cat bounce, as dip buyers were not to be found anywhere. “Stunning” best describes this sudden reversal, which erased yesterday’s profits and then some. With the Dow tumbling over 1,000 points, domestic equities notched their worst day of the year …
Fed’s Modest Rate Hike Pleases Markets
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets While the headlines were screaming “Fed fires off biggest interest-rate hike since 2000,” the reality of it is that the increase in the Fed Funds rate from 0.5% t0 1% is hardly enough to fight inflation with a current CPI of 8.5%, which likely will explode higher next week with the latest data …