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Market Action Summary: 9/10/18

Market Action Summary: 9/10/18

Click here to register for the webinar, which begins at 4:30 p.m. ET. S&P 500 overview SPX holding January high amid Dow Transports bullish confirmation. 50-hour MA on @ES starting to turn upward. Rotation away from megacap techs / FANG is healthy. Sensing a...

IPOs Have Their Best August in Five Years

IPOs Have Their Best August in Five Years

Initial public offerings (IPOs) kept flowing last month, despite the normal summer doldrums. Some $1.5 billion of new stock came to market last month, according to data from ClickIPO. It might sound puny compared with recent totals, but it was still the busiest August...

A Weak End to a Strong Season: Earnings This Week

A Weak End to a Strong Season: Earnings This Week

A good earnings season ended on a weak note, thanks to dinosaur consumer stocks. Traditional retailers and food stocks are down sharply as changes in the ecosystem continue to weigh on sentiment. Some beat estimates, others missed. Either way, investors looked for...

Market Action Summary: 8/27/18

Market Action Summary: 8/27/18

Click here to register for the webinar, which begins at 4:30 p.m. ET. S&P 500 overview Few bearish signals after triangle breakout. Lack of correlations, inter-market warning flags. Sectors bullish as investors rotate into risk-on areas like XLB, EEM. News...

New Companies Back on the Rise

New Companies Back on the Rise

Back in the spring, there was a wave of bullishness in initial public offerings. After a few pullbacks, some of those companies are pushing higher again. Take a name like ZScaler (ZS), which provides cloud-computing security services. It chopped around after crushing...

Retail Revival Underway: Earnings This Week

Retail Revival Underway: Earnings This Week

Remember when everyone thought traditional retailers were going extinct? This week's earnings reports may have destroyed that narrative. "This is the healthiest environment I have ever seen," Target (TGT) CEO Brian Cornell told CNBC as his stock shot into record...

Looking Behind the Numbers as Stocks Test Old Highs

Looking Behind the Numbers as Stocks Test Old Highs

The S&P 500 hit a new all-time high yesterday, slightly above its previous record in January. Many things have changed since that previous peak. Then, stocks drifted upward in a mindless and complacent bubble. Now, they've proven themselves with two strong...

Market Action summary: 8/20/18

Market Action summary: 8/20/18

Click here to register for the webinar. S&P 500 overview: Bears running out of space after 2800 support held. Breadth improving, shown by RSP vs SPY. Transports gaining. Notice $DJT follow-through today after high close on Friday. China progress/impasse the next...

Turnarounds Get Rewarded: Earnings this Week

Turnarounds Get Rewarded: Earnings this Week

Investors like turnaround stories. That seems to be the message from the last week of corporate earnings. Consider two major retailers: Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) and Macy's (M). Both beat analysts' estimates, but moved in two very different directions. Why? It was all...

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Levels on the S&P 500

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Levels on the S&P 500

Ever heard the saying that "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades?" It means coming close to a goal isn't good enough for most projects. But it can be good enough when it come to charting the S&P 500. Last week, for instance, Market Insights surveyed...