Market conditions are Mildly bearish in a Bear Market as of 2023-02-21. This means traders and investors should consider trading with a bearish bias by raising stop levels on winners and selling losers. The rank of the Bear Market is -6.07 which indicates the current market conditions are Extreme, Risk of a reversal is high. […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — After some of the most dramatic declines in global financial markets since the Federal Reserve began lifting borrowing costs six months ago, authorities in Asia are stepping up efforts to prevent a downward spiral. South Korea joined a growing list of interventions on Wednesday, with the central bank saying it will buy as […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — The spillover from the UK’s proposed tax cuts is washing into the US stock market. The S&P 500 is set to open down more than 1%, bringing its rout in the week past 4%. The index already closed below the closely watched level of 3,800, leaving the June bear-market low of 3,666 as […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — As the Federal Reserve’s intensifying fight against inflation sinks every asset on Wall Street, investors are asking: Why buy now when things could get cheaper still? What started as a mild stock selloff this month has morphed into a deepening interest rate-spurred rout that’s wiped out virtually all of the summer gains in […]
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) — 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) — 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) — 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 More(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest exchange-traded fund posted its worst monthly outflow in its near three-decade history with investors selling the Monday stock rebound en masse. The $407 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known by its ticker SPY, in January saw its biggest redemption since launching in 1993, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — How much further is the Federal Reserve willing to let stocks slide? That’s the burning question of the moment for financial markets, and Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, has an answer: as much as 20% more. That’d put the S&P 500 below 3,500, or close to where it was before […]
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