ETF Analysis & Opinion

US equities tanked, and as we highlighted last week the spreading virus was simply the tipping point for an insanely overvalued and overbought market. Three out of four equity benchmarks are down for...

It should be an exciting week when trading begins again on Monday. After all, the Chinese markets will open for the first time in a week, and they are likely to be down a lot. The S&P 500 is down...

In market terms, one could argue that the last 4-years, except for the brief trip to stark reality at the end of 2018, have been a thing of beauty and a total artifice.Nowhere is the contrast better...

To cut right to the chase, the overall “estimated” S&P 500 earnings growth for 2020 fell about 1/2 of 1% in January 2020, which, if we annualize, puts the expected 10%...

Further to my post of January 27, the SPX:VIX ratio broke and closed below its 2019 uptrend line on Friday, as shown on the following daily ratio chart.Failure to recapture and hold above, firstly,...

The shares of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), are changing their course after surging to a record high of $224.20 on Jan. 29, just before the company reported record Q4 earnings after the close. Yet instead of...

(Friday Market Open) It looks like many investors are running routes out of town before the big football weekend. Disappointing earnings news from Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Exxon Mobil ...

Pre-Open Market Analysis Yesterday closed near its high. It is a buy signal bar on the daily chart for a micro double bottom in a bull trend. I wrote this week that the Emini S&P 500 might have to...

Stock traders try to keep their emotions under control but the global fear is just not letting it go. Yesterday’s session started badly, but at the end of the day, buyers managed to pull prices...

If you’re in doubt, just “Google” it. That’s how dominant Alphabet‘s Google (GOOG, GOOGL) has become in the digital search space. Just about everyone knows the name...

Large-cap technology stocks have been bull-market leaders, pushing the stock market higher into 2020. One of those leaders has been Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD). But investors were...

* Reports Q4 2019 results on Thursday, Jan. 30, after the close * Revenue expectation: $85.97 billion * EPS expectation: $4.05 Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been having a tough time over the past few...

Pre-Open Market AnalysisThe Emini rallied for a 2nd day yesterday. The high got to within 7 points of the 3300 Big Round Number. I talked about how that was an important price in mid-January and...

(Thursday Market Open) More coronavirus cases and deaths in China helped send Hong Kong shares down 2.6% overnight, and that’s a tough lead-in for U.S. markets today. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)...