Year: 2019

The bleeding in Treasuries finally stopped last week but the question now is if this is just a snapback from an oversold drop or if this was a short-term correction in a Treasury bull that […]

Small-caps have staged an impressive rally over the past couple of weeks. Since trade tensions softened and Treasury yields soared, small-caps have smacked around large-caps returning 6.5% compared to just a 2% return for the S&P 500. […]

As you likely already know, Saudi Arabian oil fields were damaged in a drone attack over the weekend crippling roughly 5% of the world’s daily oil output. Both WTI and Brent crude oil prices are up […]

That’s what at least one market watcher thinks. A surprise drone strike on Saudi Arabian oil fields that figure to take half of the country’s oil production offline could send oil prices soaring in the […]

For the first time since the fourth quarter correction of last year, value stocks are taking market leadership. That instance was more that value stocks lost less than growth stocks. Right now, value stocks are […]

Bank stocks are back in rally mode after the spike in Treasury yields has resulted in the group gaining 10% in just the past couple of weeks.   Bank stocks have been suffering ever since […]

Cyclicals have taken over the lead from defensive stock over the past two weeks. The tech and consumer discretionary sectors are up more than 5% during that time while the core defensive sectors – real […]

The charts over the past couple of months have been ugly. The Marijuana ETF (MJ) is down more than 37% from its 2019 high and individual names within the sector are doing much worse.   […]

The U.S. economy is essentially at full employment but the trade war might finally be turning things in the other direction. Jobless claims in a number of manufacturing- and agriculture-heavy have been noticeably rising since […]

As much as the Fed tries to use a combination of lower interest rates, fiddling with the dollar’s value and the possibility of another round of QE, inflation has remained stubbornly low and it may […]