Dow plunges 800 points; S&P 500 down 4.25% at its low for the day–but what happened today?
I love this headline today on Yahoo Finance: "Stocks post worst day since June." Since June!! What else were you expecting in a rally that has become completely unmoored from any fundamentals in the real world. Remember that when some talking head ties to convince you...
Treasury yield curve inverts again–key to market direction?
Adding to Monday's market sell off or maybe causing Monday's market sell off or maybe just a result of the Monday sell off, the yield curve on U.S Treasuries inverted again on May 13. The yield on the 3-month Treasury bill at 2.38% ended the day higher than the yield...
Stocks that led the market up are now leading it down
Today Apple (AAPL) fell 3.96%. Facebook (FB) was down 5.72%. Amazon (AMZN) lost 5.09%. Netflix (NFLX) tumbled 5.45%. The big technology stocks that led the market up to historic highs are leading this fall off on a combination of general market nervousness and...
U.S. stocks gently slide but VIX “fear index” continues retreat
If the market were inclined to sell off today, it could have found plenty of reasons. Under the heading of one-off scary stuff, I'd put:Â Continued tensions between the Saudis and just about everyone else over allegations--which look to be true--that the Saudi...
Stocks hold most of last hour’s gains–and that’s important
An extremely volatile day--but the market held most of its gains into the close--and that's important if you're trying to figure out whether we've seen the last (for a while, at least) of this week's selling. Let's take a look at the Standard & Poor's 500 index as...
Is a slow-motion credit crunch already here?
Thanks, folks. For weeks now I've been writing about an impending credit crunch that would produce a reset (a polite term for a big whoosh down the toilet) in global asset prices. The problem, I've noted, is that while a credit crunch seems likely, putting a time to...
Market goes from worried to freaked out today
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Even good news on initial claims for unemployment has not been able to turn a two-day rally in U.S. stocks into a three-day rally. With technology and momentum stocks leading the way lower—again—the NASDAQ Composite index is down 2.47% as of 2:15 p.m. in New York.
It was an especially brutal sell off on September 25–if you owned the stocks that led the market in the rally
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