April 24th, 2020, 1:43 PM
No big moves. No major disruptions. No threats of meltdowns. Today has been a welcome breather, a bit of stability, for market that's had more than its share of excitement this week. So far. It's only 1:30 p.m. in New York. And we could see selling or buying before the weekend. And stability today could […]
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April 15th, 2020, 4:58 PM
Yesterday in my post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do something that will cost us money since we'll be late […]
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March 20th, 2020, 4:50 PM
Let me emphasize that "for the week." The storm of bad news continued today with the European Union saying that the 2020 recession in that bloc may be as bad as 2009. Goldman Sachs warned that the U.S. economy may shrink 24% year over year in the second quarter. Oil fell again with government announcements […]
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March 17th, 2020, 6:58 PM
The definition of a bear market is rather simple: It's a drop of 20% or more from the market high. By this standard we've recently moved into a bear market on all the major U.S. stock indexes--and indeed on all the major overseas indexes with the exception, for the moment, of the Shanghai market. The […]
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March 11th, 2020, 2:33 PM
As of 1:45 p.m. in New York the Standard & Poor's 500 is down 4.62% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off 5.13%. The NASDAQ Composite is lower by 4.40% and the Russell 2000 small cap index, with its heavy load of smaller U.S. oil producers, has lost 5.23%. Speaking of oil, U.S. benchmark […]
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