Market conditions are Bearish in a Bear Market as of 2023-03-10. This means traders and investors should consider trading with a Bearish bias by shorting stocks, buying inverse-ETF’s or buying put options. The rank of the Bear Market is -4.50. The most recent Sell Signal came on May 12, 2022. Market Trend Indexes Sectors New […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Not many industry experts would shrug off a 35% drop for the S&P 500, but six-decade Wall Street veteran George Ball says a fall of that magnitude would be a normal adjustment. Ball, chairman of Houston-based investment firm Sanders Morris Harris, predicts the S&P 500 will bottom at 3,100 from its all-time high […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The S&P 500 Index may have another 24% to fall by year-end, if the past 150 years of financial-market history are any guide. That’s according to Societe Generale, which calculates the benchmark gauge may need to tumble as much as 40% from its January peak in the next six months to hit bottom. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — When the nineties ended, an overvalued stock market took three long years to rid itself of its accumulated excess in what is now known as the dot-com crash. That a similar reckoning has needed just 14 months to play out now is a sign of how fast moving this market is — and […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The selloff in global risk-assets against a backdrop of surging inflation and slowing growth is only getting started, some market participants believe. Faced with an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve, the risks posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s strict Covid policies, the MSCI All Country World Index is nearing a bear market. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Wall Street is reluctantly coming to grips with a new reality for 2022: This isn’t going to be a good year for stocks. Credit Suisse cut its forecast for the S&P 500 Index last week. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley are also now predicting that equities will […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — First it was a rout in the stay-at-home names that surged in the pandemic. Then speculative software makers with barely any earnings went south. Now the giant technology names whose sway on benchmarks has been decried by bears for years are dragging the market down. Dizzying as the downdraft has been, you can’t […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A day after celebrating the Federal Reserve’s signal that it wouldn’t be making any jumbo-sized moves, traders woke up on Thursday deciding that the central bank will struggle to fight high inflation amid the lingering threat of a recession. In a sharp about-face, investors sold stocks, bonds and cryptocurrencies on Thursday. At one […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — David Wright knows a thing or two about bear markets. His Sierra Tactical All Asset Fund barely lost anything in 2008 as the global financial crisis caused the worst market panic since the Great Depression. Its loss during the Covid rout of 2020 was also relatively small. Wright, who is based in Santa […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A drop below 4,000 index points for the S&P 500 will be a “tipping point,” which could potentially trigger a mass exodus from equities, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. Investors have already started fleeing stocks, with outflows from equity funds over the past three weeks adding up to the worst since […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — A week that began brimming with economic optimism ended up caving in on stock bulls, who find themselves increasingly helpless in the face of determined Federal Reserve inflation fighters. It was a stretch that may be remembered as the time bond investors reestablished themselves as rulers of the asset-market roost. Surging yields, whipped […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — As equity markets sink around the world, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. strategists say a perfect storm looks to be gathering. “Downside risk remains most acute over the next 6-8 weeks,” Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson wrote in a note to clients. “We are firmly in the grasp of a bear market that is […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Whatever happens in Ukraine or how it affects Federal Reserve policy, the outcome will land in markets where investors have had time to prepare for the worst. It may be one reason the worst has so far been avoided. They’ve been steadily boosting bets against equities, shaking off a reluctance to short tracing […]
Read MoreFear is in the air, with global equities bouncing around and havens on the rise as investors enter a decisive week that could bring a war or regional conflict to Europe, if Russia can’t be persuaded to back off a Ukraine invasion. Wall Street is off to a mixed start, but a losing day would […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Even after a correction in tech stocks and surging yields on U.S. government bonds, investors still don’t understand the risks they’re taking in equity and debt markets, according to Mark Spitznagel, manager of the best-known fund protecting against so-called black swan events. “There’s a profound lack of appreciation for how dangerous the market […]
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