The S&P 500 may be up around 12% since the bloodbath the index saw on Christmas Eve that pushed it briefly into bear market territory, but don’t get too excited just yet – there is likely to be more pain on the horizon. That’s according to Mark Yusko, the founder and chief investment officer at […]
Read MoreSince Christmas Eve, stocks have been on a quiet tear with the S&P 500 climbing around 12% since then. But while stocks are now rebounding after being clobbered for the last several months, don’t be fooled. “Don’t think stocks are back to their old ways of just chugging along and making easy money,” Nick Colas, […]
Read MoreWe’ve had a rough start to the new year so far. And after such a volatile 2018, it’s hard to predict where things will land in 2019. Investors do have reason to be optimistic this year—the economy is still relatively strong—however, the trends that made the end of last year so challenging remain and investors […]
Read MoreStocks are falling. Interest rates are climbing. The yield curve is flattening and could soon be flashing red. There’s plenty to worry about at the start of this new year. But for those investors trying to adjust their portfolios for the impending recession that pundits have said will start in 2020, recent economic indicators have […]
Read MoreDo you remember the last time the stock market was this bad in December? Probably not, as the Dow and S&P 500 are currently on track for their biggest December losses since the country was in the throes of the Great Depression. The S&P 500 has lost nearly 8% of its value so far this […]
Read MoreThe market has been on a wild ride over the past two months, with everything from trade to politics to weak corporate outlooks for the next year sending stocks tumbling lower. But Lindsey Bell, an investment strategist at CFRA Research, says there’s another massive market risk flying under the radar. Bell says that corporate debt […]
Read MoreA survey released Wednesday showed that corporate CFOs aren’t feeling all that positive going into 2019, with almost half of all respondents anticipating a recession will start by the end of the year. Of the 212 chief financial officers surveyed by Duke University, 48.6% believe that the next negative growth period in the U.S. is […]
Read MoreMany of the biggest names in the financial world have been sounding the alarm bells that a recession is looming as stocks have reached record valuations. But billionaire Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors with nearly $4 billion under management and former partner at Goldman Sachs, disagrees and sees no signs of recession on the […]
Read MoreBank of America Merrill Lynch’s (NYSE: BAC) chief investment strategist, Michael Hartnett, said in a note to clients this week that the “Great Bull” market that came after the financial crisis is now dead as economic growth slows, interest rates rise, and debt crushes. “The Great Bull Dead: end of excess liquidity = end of excess […]
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