Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

I last wrote about the S&P 500:VIX ratio in my post here.The SPX continued its plunge (that began on January 30) and closed near its low on Friday (spiking the VIX to a new daily swing high), as...

Last week, this post was shown in order for readers to get a sense for how fast S&P 500 earnings were accelerating. With the Thomson Reuters data out this Friday, the 2018 “estimated”...

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) continues to fall after reporting earnings on Thursday. The stock fell into the release on worries about the super-cycle and earnings did not help the picture. As a swing trader,...

Looking back at a longer-term monthly view of the S&P 500 Index (SPX) compared with Gold (GC) (blue bars) and WTIC Crude Oil (CL) (pink bars), we saw a broad correlation among these regarding...

Below looks at the Dow since the early 1900s on a monthly basis, with momentum applied in the upper part of the chart. Today's Dow is attempting a breakout of this 70-year channel at (3) as the trend...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) reported earnings of $3.75 per share and revenues of $60.5 billion, with both figures beating expectations of $1.85 per share and $59.9 billion respectively.To an extent, the...

Momentum-based investing strategies may be one of the most reliable drivers of alpha, but like all sources of excess return this factor premium waxes and wanes through time. Accordingly, deciding when...

The CAC index has posted losses in the Friday session. Currently, the index is at 5385.25, down 1.27% on the day. A sharp loss in Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn) shares has dragged European stock markets...

The DAX has headed downwards for a second straight day. In the Friday session, the index is trading at 12,863.50, down 1.08% on the day. It’s a quiet end to the week, with just one eurozone...

Airline stocks have rebounded nicely after struggling for most of 2017. Headwinds ranging from flight cancellations and the resultant loss of revenues due to hurricanes and other calamities, high...

Friday has been a rough day on Wall Street, with several major indexes—including the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500—hovering deep in the red during early afternoon trading hours.Through...

Management took the opportunity to talk up Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) cloud business on yesterday’s earnings call. So for the first time, we got to know that the business generated a...

Bitcoin has been on a wild ride again; it is now trading below $9,000 after touching a record high above $19,500 in December. Further, hopes for launch of a bitcoin ETF were dashed by the SEC...

Following Lazard Ltd.’s (NYSE:LAZ) reported positive earnings surprise of 21.7% in fourth-quarter 2017, shares inched up 1.42%. The company reported adjusted earnings of $1.12 per share,...