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Potential Reversal Patterns After Fed’s Hawkish Pause: Market Trends This Week
Downloads are available here. MACD cross days available here. Register for Market Trends here. Sizing Up the S&P 500 Bearish outside day and doji candlestick Potentially overbought, according to Keltner Pullback custom indicator S&P 500 rose for 5...
Best Stocks and Biggest Losers of 2018
Stocks are finishing their worst year in a decade, but there were still plenty of winners. Let's run through the best and worst performers of in the S&P 500 index over the course of 2018. All numbers are current based on yesterday's close. Biggest Stock Market...
Bulls Target Coca Cola and Silver Options
What do a soft-drink giant and a precious metal fund have in common? They both have bullish options trades today, that's what. Let's start with Coca-Cola (KO). The soda maker is one of the few members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with a gain so far this year or...
Stocks and Economy in Massive Disconnect
A lot of things can be said about the stock market right now. One of the biggest is its huge disconnect with the economy. Judging by Wall Street, you'd think we're in a recession now. Key indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 are in the midst of their worst...
Is This Precious Metal Too Cheap?
Political uncertainty and economic jitters have lifted precious metals recently. But which has more upside potential? Silver futures (@SI) are trading near their cheapest ratio to gold futures (@GC) in over 16 years. History may suggest their valuation gap will narrow...
Market Jitters Are Lifting Gold Miners
Gold miners are the only winners in this market as mounting worries drive investors to the ultimate safety play. The Dow Jones US Gold Miner Index ($DJUSPM) has gained 5 percent in the last month. That makes the best performer -- and only real gainer -- of more than...
Investors Sold Everything That Wasn’t Nailed Down Last Week
Stocks just finished their worst week in seven years as investors sold everything that wasn't nailed down. All the major sectors declined at least 5 percent. Energy cratered 10 percent, small caps slid 9 percent and Technology dropped 8 percent. The S&P 500's 6.6...
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Stocks Are Back to This Major Level. Here’s What to Watch Next
Stocks are back to key levels as the market looks for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression to fade. The S&P 500 rose 3 percent between Friday, April 10, and Friday, April 17. The index closed above its 50-day moving average for the first time since...