Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The gold miners’ stocks have largely ground sideways this year, consolidating their massive 2016 gains. That lackluster trading action, along with vexing underperformance relative to gold, has...

A weekly excerpt from the Macro Review analysis sent to subscribers on 10 markets and two timeframes.Last week’s review of the macro market indicators noted heading into the last days of...

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Ticker: $BACBank of America, $BAC, saw its 50, 100 and 200 day SMA’s come together in September and then the stock took off to the upside. It met resistance 2 weeks...

The S&P 500 opened Friday well above Thursday's close and climbed throughout the day, closing with a daily gain of 0.89% and a weekly gain of 0.26%. Year-to-date, the index is up 15.59% and is at...

Never before has a bearish indicator meant so little to the market.Considering how relentless this market has been on trading higher, the SharePlanner Reversal Indicator has done fairly well, relative...

DOW + 22 = 23,539 (Record)SPX + 7 = 2587NAS + 49 = 6764RUT – 1 = 149410 Y – .04 = 2.34%OIL + 1.14 = 55.68GOLD – 6.10 = 1270.40Number of Currencies: 893 Total Market Cap:...

Economic ScenarioBank of England (BOE) hiked its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.5%, reversing the August rate hike immediately after Brexit, as widely expected by economists. Despite...

Economic Calendar & Watch ListMorning Notes US Futures are moderately higher while European stocks are down marginally ahead of US non-farm payroll numbers. European equities are being led lower...

The year-over-year growth rate of the S&P 500 forward earnings estimate tracks the “expected” forward growth rate of S&P 500 earnings, vs that same expected rate one year...

NYSE Margin Debt is an important indicator for US equities as it both reflects sentiment and tracks the amount of leverage and buying power (or lack thereof) in the market. The leverage aspect is...

Last week I wrote that there was so much on the calendar that it was impossible to choose a single theme. This week presents the opposite problem. In the wake of the big news, what will command...

Here's how to trade the FTSE 100 after Thursday's rate hike.

Over the past week, my core indicators bounced around again. The only significant thing I’m seeing is some weakness in my measures of the economy, but I suspect this category won’t have...

Three-plus years ago I said: with all the effort Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was putting into Internet radio, Pandora (NYSE:P) might not be in a great spot. Yeah, that was an understatement, which sows how...