Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% on this first Monday back from the Thanksgiving-affected week.Not much is going on in the financial press, and a little give-back following last week’s modest 1%...

Gold bullion could be viewed as insurance, a portfolio hedge a long-term investment or a long-term store of value, but a gold mining stock is none of these.Gold mining stocks always should be viewed...

Emini S&P December futures just drifting aimlessly after the long holiday weekend.We are still holding just 2 points above minor support at 4542/38 to keep the bulls in control and perhaps on the...

Over the weekend I covered small caps, retail, semiconductors, and transportation.The conclusion was: “If you put these four charts all together, we get a reunion that is filled with the...

We hope everyone has had a wonderful, shortened Thanksgiving Week with family and friends last week. As such, our usual update every two weeks is a week later than normal, and a lot has happened since...

After reaching overbought levels and pulling back from August through October (declining orange channel in the chart below), the market has decisively broken out to the upside. The strength of the...

Buying stocks can often be a challenge if you don't have access to the right data It can also become a challenge if you don't know where to look Here are 4 easy steps to evaluating any stock with...

US Cyber Monday 2022 saw a record-breaking $11.3 billion in retail e-commerce sales, 23.9% more than Black Friday of the same year. Expectations for 2023 are of further sales growth, albeit at a...

Whether you see the past week-and-a-half action in the Russell 2000 (IWM) as a bullish ascending triangle or pennant, it's clear there is a significant bullish turn in momentum since the early...

We haven’t written about the German DAX since we showed you how Elliott Wave analysis helped us to predict both the Covid-19 crash and the following rally. Now that this rally has pushed the...

The S&P 500 has not made a new high since the first trading day of January ’22, while the Nasdaq peaked in late November ’21 near 16,200.Secular bull markets run in cycles, i.e. 1945...

Reviewing Walmart (NYSE:WMT) results this week and looking at the spreadsheet and conference call notes, you can never ignore year-over-year (y.y) comparisons (or should at least factor in...

Here is your Pro Recap of the top takeaways from Wall Street analysts for the past week: upgrades for Boeing and C3 and downgrades for Virgin Galactic and Urban Outfitters.InvestingPro subscribers...

U.S. PCE Inflation, Q3 GDP, Powell speech will be in focus this week. CrowdStrike is a buy with explosive earnings and sales growth expected. Foot Locker is a sell with weak earnings and disappointing...