We've been witnessing tremendous daily volatility in the stock market recently and today is no exception. That said, the primary catalyst for today's plunge lower — the "official" inverting of the yield curve — is a big
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Well, that was quick.
Just six trading sessions ago (the Friday before last), the S&P 500 set its most recent all-time high. As we've pointed out several times, other parts of the stock market haven't been as strong —
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SMI is now in its 30th year! Our executive editor Mark Biller has been thinking about several significant numbers related to SMI’s history — and also about numbers that tell us something about the current market
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Value Stocks Haven’t Traded This Low Since the Dot-Com Bubble
A total-return measure of value versus growth across developed markets just slumped to its lowest since 2000. That marks almost two decades since shares dubbed
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Crazy times
“We are in such bizarre times, all bets are off. It is certainly not the time for ‘buy and hold’ unless your goal is to lose everything. If not, then you need an active, flexible, defensive investment strategy
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Last week, I wrote about the rate-cut optimism that has recently driven the stock market to new highs. Today I want to dig into that a bit further and explain why this shift may mark the beginning of the end for both this
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The S&P 500 index briefly topped 3,000 for the first time today, driven by investor optimism that the Fed is on track to cut interest rates at the end of July.
A rate cut this month would be a pretty big deal, not so much
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The S&P 500 has been on a great run, but market leadership doesn’t last forever. We don’t have to look far into the past for a vivid reminder that one decade’s leader can be the next decade’s
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Following last week's changes to Sector Rotation and Dynamic Asset Allocation, I received the following email. There are likely other readers with similar questions and thoughts, so I thought I'd respond here for the
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Time is on the side of the long-term investor. The longer you are willing to keep your money in the market, the greater your likelihood of success.
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