David Aurelio of Thomson Reuters is very helpful in getting good sector information on the Thomson Reuters IBES data on the 11 SP 500 sectors. David has never failed to deliver when asked a question. Recently this blog asked David … Continued
B.I.G._Tips_-_Nasdaq_100_Epic_Streak (1) With so much investment-related information data, available daily on a plethora of blogs, Twitter, not to mention the mainstream financial media, every week there is just an enormous amount of market-related data to sift through. The above chart … Continued
Per Thomson Reuters, 423 of the SP 500 have posted Q3 ’16 financial results, and regardless of what you hear in the financial media, Q3 ’16 earnings are pretty solid. Q3 ’16 earnings are up 3.9%, Q3 ’16 revenue growth … Continued
The reversal in the Russell 2000 and biotech’s today was pretty significant since these groups have been leading us lower, along with Energy, Basic Materials and Transports. These timely charts posted today by Chris Kimble of Kimble Charting Solutions tell … Continued
Thanks for reading this blog this year. Here is our bullish case for 2016, and here is the biggest worry headed into the last two weeks of 2015, which hasn’t really materialized. We’ll be out with earnings-related blog posts … Continued
Readers know that as a huge fan of Bespoke Research, I like to copy and paste some of their work to this blog as a source of reader enlightenment (hopefully). Yesterday’s Bespoke Key ETF performance recap (dated November 30, 2015), … Continued
The most striking aspect to the SP 500 since July 1 is the performance differential between “Growth” and “Value” within the SP 500 and really, within mid-caps and small caps too. The drubbing biotech took this week may start to … Continued
One element to watching the stock market every day is to get a feel for the pattern of the market, and then watch and see if that pattern continues. Every correction for the SP 500 since 2011 has been fairly … Continued
A quick thanks to CNBC-Asia, Elly Whitaker, and Joanne Wong, for the interview on CNBC-Asia Monday night. We talked Alcoa (AA) earnings and SP 500 expected earnings for Q2 ’13. Hopefully the CNBC anchors, Oriel Morrison and Adam Bakhtiar found the … Continued
2012 will likely go into the history books as a pretty good year, with the S&P 500 up roughly 12% year-to-date, although that could change dramatically with Monday, December 31’s trading action, given the events in Washington. (As this is … Continued