by Michael Markowski | Dec 25, 2018 | alerts, Crashes, Extra Cat, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The S&P 500 officially entered into a bear market after a December 24th record decline of 2.7%. Prior to December 24, 2018, there had never been a prior Christmas Eve decline of even 1%. The decline of 15% for December puts the month on pace to become the worst...
by Lance Roberts | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
So far, the month of December has sucked. From Powell to Gundlach, to Trump, and a falling oil prices, there hasn’t been much “holiday cheer…” However, with the market very oversold, there is still hope that “Santa Claus” could soon appear. If we take a look back at...
by John Coumarianos | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
“This is a capital preservation market.” So says Jeffrey Gundlach who can’t argue with anyone who wants to invest in the 2-Year U.S. Treasury, currently yielding around 2.7%. If you choose the 10-year, by contrast, and saddle yourself with 8 more years, you get less...
by Jesse Colombo | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
The much-anticipated December Fed meeting has finally come and gone, and the stock market did not like what it heard. The Fed raised rates by 0.25% and cut its expectation for 2019 rate hikes from three to two. Because the Fed didn’t sound as dovish as many investors...
by Richard Rosso | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The bullish pundits of the Twittersphere; the pros who never met a stock market they didn’t like, grow increasingly quiet at these times; or masterfully through the art of words, combined with short memories of investors and blatantly false narratives, still manage to...
by Lance Roberts | Dec 18, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
In April of 2018, I wrote an article entitled “10-Reasons The Bull Market Ended In 2018” in which I concluded: “There is a reasonably high possibility, the bull market that started in 2009 has ended. We may not know for a week, a month or even possibly a couple of...
