Quick Review Listen To The Yield Curve Message No One Ever Says Sell Sector & Market Analysis 401k Plan Manager Follow Us On: Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, Sound Cloud, Seeking Alpha Quick Review Do you love #volatility yet? Last week the market swung wildly back...

The chances of a recession later this year have increased again as consumer sentiment in August slumped to its lowest level since the beginning of 2019. The main factors contributing to the decline were the expected imposition of further tariffs on Chinese imports and...

On rare occasions when the stock market is extremely volatile the Bull & Bear Tracker’s signals can change more than once in a day.  Wednesday August 7, 2019, was one of those rare days. The signal went from GREEN to RED on the open and back to GREEN at 3:40PM.   ...

Since the Bull & Bear Tracker’s first signal was published on April 9, 2018, the vast majority of all morning alerts have been sent out prior to the US market’s 9:30AM open.  However, the timing for the sending of some of the morning alerts has changed...

Based on the Bull & Bear Tracker’s signal going to GREEN from RED before the market’s close on Friday November 2nd market volatility is likely to decline for the US midterm elections and the foreseeable future.  Since there are typically...

Economic growth in the US is still good, but it has shown some deterioration of late. GDP growth in the third quarter of 2018 was up 3.5% q/q, off from the 4.2% advance recorded in Q2. The increase in real GDP reflected contributions from personal...

After a relief rally for the major indices today the October crash will resume in full force tomorrow.  Amazon and Alphabet both reported their third quarter earnings after the market’s close today. They both missed their estimates.  Amazon reduced their...

The housing market has deteriorated further in September. Sales of new single-family houses in the US fell 5.5% m/m to 553 thousand, following a downwardly revised 3.0% decline in August. It is the lowest rate since December 2016 and is worse than market...

The market correction which began on October 10 is far from over.  The lifting of the restrictions for share buybacks by corporations who are reporting earnings for their fiscal periods ended September 30 will not matter.  Two things happened during the...

Read SpotLight Television’s press release entitled “Visionary Market Analyst Michael Markowski Predicted the third largest drop in Dow history” about the founder and Director of Research of BullsNBears.com.   Its reveals the details about the predictions for the...

The latest numbers on housing are further evidence of a weakening US economy in the months ahead. September existing home sales fell 3.4% following a 2% drop in August. The September sales number is the smallest since November 2015. Part of the problem with sales is...

More statistics pointing to a slowdown in the US economy: September housing starts in the US dropped 5.3% from a month earlier, after a 7.1% gain in August. Starts in the South declined due in part to Hurricane Florence. Building permits dipped 0.6% after a dramatic...

The signal for the Bull & Bear Tracker has gone from RED to GREEN.  The market crash that had been underway since October 10th has been abated.  Those who participated in my strategy which I outlined in my October 5, 2018, article entitled “Perfect...

Click to read Press Release by Spotlight Television: Visionary Market Analyst Michael Markowski Predicted the Third-Largest Drop in Dow's History

On Tuesday October 16th the S&P 500 rallied by 59 points and increased by 2.15% on the news that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley beat their third quarter earnings estimates.   However, the advance was most likely a sucker rally. Tuesday’s volume of...

Activity in the domestic US economy during September was modestly positive as retail sales in September rose a mere 0.1% m/m and 4.7% y/y. This compares with a 0.1% monthly increase in August and a 6.5% year-on-year advance. These numbers are not surprising...

The perfect storm I predicted in my Friday, October 5th article entitled, “Perfect Storm Brewing for Possible Market Crash Next Week” which caused a decline of 4.1% for the S&P 500 last week is going to rage on until the end of October.  The Bull &...

A day of reckoning is approaching for the US stock market.  The market’s math simply does not add up. The math not adding up was why I recommended to all the readers of my September 2007, Equities Magazine column to get out of the five largest brokers...

On Friday October 5th, Bloomberg reported that Stifel Nicholas’ institutional equities strategist Barry Bannister predicted that the S&P 500 will be in a bear market by the end of the first quarter of 2019.  Mr. Bannister in late January 2018, was the...

The signal for the Bull & Bear Tracker is now RED.  A market crash is now underway that will result in October being the worst month for the stock market during the Trump Presidency.  According to a Wall Street Journal September 19, 2018, article...

Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University and a Nobel laureate, says the steep run-up in this market rally is similar to the excesses of the 1920s before the October 1929 market crash and Great Depression.  Professor Shiller in his CNBC...

A frenzied blow off for the stock market and especially the Dow Jones Industrial composite index is underway.  Investors are selling everything that is not tied down to pour their money into the index which houses 30 of the world’s largest companies....

Last week, James Rickards posted an interesting article discussing the risk to the financial markets from the rise in passive indexing. To wit: “Free riding…

Cash Balances as a percentage of assets in Charles Schwab’s brokerage accounts fell to 10.4 percent as of the end of August 2018.  This matched the level in January which been the lowest since 2004. The S&P 500 has increased for six consecutive months...

According to the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index the US economy remains in good stead. The index in September topped 100, only the third time since 2004. Noteworthy is that the bottom third of households had an index of 96.3, the highest...

Without much fanfare or public discussion, Congress has decided to push the U.S. into deeper fiscal responsibility. Earlier this week, the House passed another Continuing…

This bull market seems unstoppable. Regardless of short-term events, investors have quickly looked beyond those risks to in a bid to push stock prices higher.…

Brexit talks are not progressing well. At the Salzburg summit Prime Minister May was rudely rebuffed for her demands of a more rapid response to the UK’s proposals for post-Brexit arrangements. The PM did not help herself by being “difficult” with the EU...

Bulls Push To All-Time Highs Get out your party hats ladies and gentlemen, the markets hit all-time highs this past week. After increasing equity exposure in portfolios on the 11th, as the markets pulled back to the previous break-out support levels,...

The elimination of Brett Kavanaugh from consideration to become a justice on the US Supreme Court will negatively impact the market.   Should this happen the Democratic party will become highly motivated to generate a huge turnout of Democrats for the...

The UK continues to struggle in its efforts to come up with the right Brexit formula for a deal with the EU as there are just 193 days left before the due date.  Prime Minister Theresa May has signaled that she will be the difficult woman she advertised she will be in...

Enron, Lehman, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Shared Same Bankruptcy Trait Today is the 10th anniversary of Lehman’s September 15, 2008 bankruptcy filing.  Below are the anniversary dates for other four of US’s five largest...

This morning the futures (S&P and Nasdaq) are, as is the custom, higher. The markets continue to ignore a number of cautionary signposts/macroeconomic events/concerns and…

Growth is strong worldwide but there are increasing signs of economic trouble ahead, most of it based on the Trump tariffs, which are about to kick in. Pushback has begun, but it is still modest. China has indicated it will introduce countervailing duties on a wide...

An indicator that was developed by Goldman Sachs which measures future bear-market risk has risen to its highest level in 50 years.   Goldman’s Bull/Bear Index, which is based on the metrics below is at its highest level since 1969. Equities valuations...

There are only seven months left until the UK will leave the European Union.  Prime Minister (“PM”) Theresa May has not yet found the formula she needs to take this step and internal negotiations remain in disarray.  Right now, the UK will leave the EU without any...

Investors and traders should give serious consideration to take advantage of the weakness in Overstock.com’s share price which has been caused by short sellers.  Overstock’s shares will soon resume the upward momentum that they had after the company made...

After Labor Day the markets will enter the treacherous September/October time period. Since 1950, the month of September has produced a decline for all of the major indices. October is a month known for crashes. The reason why September has historically...

The economic numbers for the US remain positive, albeit they are weakening. The latest statistics are initial jobless claims for the week ending August 25 and personal income and spending for July. The jobless claims rose slightly for the week and the income/spending...

Two of the three major US indices including the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ closed at all-time new highs yesterday.  However, the new all-time highs being an indicator that the 2009 secular bull is still alive and that the indices will continue on to newer...

Growth in the US remains strong. The second estimate for GDP growth in Q2 came in at 4.2%, up sharply from 2.2% in Q1. It was slightly higher than the initial reading of 4.1%. The result primarily reflects upward revisions to nonresidential fixed investment and...

The economic news these days is anything but clear and informative. It is mainly confusing and contradictory. The latest information on consumer confidence is both positive and negative with the Conference Board reporting the best numbers in almost 18 years. Meanwhile...

Durable goods orders in July declined 1.7% from a month earlier, following a downwardly revised 0.7% advance in June and compared with market expectations of a 0.5% drop. Transportation equipment drove the decrease as volatile demand for civilian aircraft fell....

According to today’s housing report from the US Commerce department new single-family home sales in July declined by 1.7% to the lowest level since October 2017.  Sales in the South declined by 3.3%.  Sales in...

The collapses of the currencies of three emerging markets countries justify the existence and the growth for cryptocurrencies.   The currencies of Venezuela, Turkey and Argentina have been in the news lately for falling to new lows against the dollar and the other...

The Turkish lira crisis is by no means over. Today, the lira at the start of the trading day plunged further and has recovered somewhat since then.  The crisis will not be over until the government takes some drastic steps to curb inflation and President...

Overstock.com’s share price has the potential to significantly outperform the market in the foreseeable future.  Since it owns 80% of tZERO, Overstock.com shares are the only publicly traded “regulated” crypto infrastructure pure play for investors.  ...

Overstock.com’s share price has the potential to exceed its January 2018, all-time high of $84.35 by year-end 2018.  Should that happen Overstock.com’s price would increase by 136%% from its most recent share price of $36. This prediction is not...

The latest GDP growth number of 4.1% in Q2 could well be an anomaly, although quite a few bankers and analysts are pointing to continued fair-weather. The latest thing that investors should be concerned about is a comment by JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Diamonds who...

When the tZERO’s $250 million crypto security token offering closes on August 6, 2018, it will become the de facto leader of the global crypto infrastructure industry.  The price of its tokens will multiply in 2019. The share price of Overstock.com (OSTK),...