[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets I was thinking this morning that something had changed in the markets over the past week or so. All of a sudden, stocks seem to react to day-to-day headline events and no longer consider ‘any’ news as good news for the bullish crowd, which is what we saw throughout 2017. Supporting a similar …
Snapping The Losing Streak
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After last week’s drubbing, and an early morning pullback, the major indexes managed a broad-based bounce back with Wall Street traders looking past the trade war rhetoric by focusing on economic data and hope that the sell-off was overdone. Even political uncertainty in Italian elections, where a populist anti-euro party made a better-than-expected …
Equities Spike As Bond Yields Pull Back
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets After several failed rally attempts early last week, the bulls regained the upper hand with the major indexes advancing for the third day in a row. Fears, that the Fed might be on a rate hike binge, were alleviated when 2 of the Fed’s mouth pieces took front and center and calmed down …
An Early Rally Fizzles As Bond Yields Rise
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets The session started out with the bullish sentiment intact from yesterday’s rebound but ended with the bears taking over causing the major indexes to close at the lows of the day. The cause was “yield creep” as rates continued their march higher with the 10-year yield climbing 5 basis points to end the …
Uncertainty Reigns Ahead Of Jobs Report
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets It was another roller coaster ride with the indexes vacillating around their unchanged lines. A nice mid-day rally fizzled out and accelerated to the downside in the last hour when dip buyers stepped in to limit the damage. Volatility picked up due to rising interest rates and inflation along with uncertainty ahead of …
One Man’s Jawboning Drags Down Markets; US Dollar Gets Clobbered
[Chart courtesy of MarketWatch.com] Moving the markets Things looked pretty hunky dory after the opening with the major indexes storming again into record territory. Then the hammer came down in form of Commerce Secretary Ross’s comments. Bloomberg reported as follows: ROSS: CHINA `SUPERB’ TALKING FREE TRADE, ACTING PROTECTIONIST ROSS: STEEL FORUM HAS MADE `ZERO DIFFERENCE’ FOR OVERCAPACITY ROSS: CHINA IS …