Froth

Posted on Sunday, November 17th, 2019

We are always looking to history as our guide as markets can be an emotional animal and we, as humans, repeat our patterns. From DataTrek, by way of Arthur Cashin, comes Nick Colas and Jessica Rabe’s analysis of what follows for markets after a good year. For the last 90 years the average total return… read more.

What’s Driving Stocks?

Posted on Sunday, November 10th, 2019

As you know we have postulated for almost two years that we were in a holding pattern for stocks. November has shown some promise in breaking out of that slump but there are still some key segments of the market that are struggling to break out to new highs – those being Transports and small… read more.

Decision Time

Posted on Sunday, November 3rd, 2019

Zero earnings growth, falling PMI’s and slowing GDP growth are not indicators of high times around the corner but here we go. The market has been moving sideways for 22 months – since January 2018. Perhaps, Friday was the day of the breakout. I think I need a bit more convincing as markets are stretched… read more.