HYG is testings it’s 200-week moving average, but is still above the upwardly-sloping trend-line off the Q1 ’16 lows. With the 50 bp’s fed funds rate reduction by the Fed, high-yield credit is always worth watching. With the Fed … Continued
The first rate cut in – what – 8 or 10 years just 6 weeks ago, saw the SP 500 and the high-yield credit markets sell off sharply. The selling continued through the first half of August as the SP … Continued
The JNK high-yield ETF looks the best of our three charts today, already having transcended the downward sloping trend line off the 2014 peak. The HYG is sitting just above resistance at the downward sloping trendline off … Continued
Chris Kimble of Kimble Charting Solutions with a chart out last week showing the coincidental bumping of resistance for both the JNK (high yield ETF) and the SP 500. I used the word, “coincidental” but there is causality here. … Continued
SP500corrections The above link is our/my internal spreadsheet noting the last few year’s history of SP 500 corrections. Note how in 2014, we’ve seen two very brief SP 500 corrections, although some might not even call them “corrections”, but the random … Continued