Category: Analytics
Review of markets over May Do you hear the markets sing, singing the song of nervous investors? One didn’t need to listen carefully to hear that volatility was the main melody in May. While April’s tune was characterised by fairly sound gains in most asset classes, May began with a European bond market correction, which …
- 18.05.2015
- Categories: Analytics
- Tags: bonds, emerging markets, eur, market review, market trends, oil, usa, usd
Global stocks rose modestly amid a strong rally in the energy sector. Rising oil prices, surging M&A activity and central bank stimulus measures helped to support world stock prices despite a slowdown in U.S. economic growth during the first quarter. Emerging markets rallied as market observers pushed back the timing of an increase in interest …
In stocks, volatility is back. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which never went more than three days without a gain in 2014, has twice fallen five straight times since January. Daily equity moves exceeding 1 percent have jumped 50 percent from last year and shares tumbled 3 percent or more over four different stretches …
Back To Normal In Stocks Feels Like Trauma As U.S. Bull Run Ages Read More »
- 7.03.2015
- Categories: Analytics
- Tags: market review, market trends, oil
The main US indexes each hit new highs last week and multiple times in February. The broad market will most likely grind higher for another week or two. However, if one or more of the indices break back down below the recent breakout level, this will most likely trigger a 2% to 5% pull back. …
- 12.02.2015
- Categories: Analytics
- Tags: asia, china, europe, greece, market review, market trends, usa
We are through the first month of 2015 and the market is trading very differently this year as compared to last year, ever since the Fed turned off their printing presses. Volatility has been elevated since January 1st and investors really don’t know which way to push stocks since they are fairly to fully priced …
- 30.01.2015
- Categories: Analytics
- Tags: emerging markets, ruble, russia
This commentary was posted by our long-time colleague and friend, Chris Weafer (link to http://macro-advisory.com/about/) in an editorial on Dec 22, 2014. Chris worked for several main Russian Banks as the Chief Strategist. He has won recognition as the best Russian Investment Strategist for 2013 by Reuters. With so many people contacting us over the …
Last week the US market showed some signs of cracking its bullish momentum. The SP500 and NASDAQ fell out of their positive bullish consolidations (pennant patterns everyone is talking about) and broke back down into the August and October trading range. More bullishly, meanwhile, the DJ30 was actually holding above that trading range and continuing …