Good Thursday morning and a big, bright and beautiful hello to 2021. At this time last year the potential for a great 2020 seemed (very) high probability. Huge stock market gains and a second term for Trump, seemed all but baked in the cake. Turned out our planners had other plans…2020 became the year of coronavirus insanity.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning and a Merry Christmas eve. Note; today is a half day of trading…we’ll see you back here Monday morning (and there will be no VRA Podcast this afternoon). Solid day of trading yesterday until the final few minutes when Trump vetoed the $740 billion (annual) …
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. The November jobs report is out and it’s a mixed bag. Big miss on estimates, with just 245,000 jobs created vs estimate of 469,000 but the unemployment rate fell to 6.7%. Month to month, trying to make sense of any government statistic is a fools errand, but it's the trend that’s worrisome.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. The public is coming back into equities in a big way, with global retail investors surging over the last 2-weeks to record inflows. At the same time, cash on the sidelines is plummeting as sentiment quickly flips from fear to greed, with short interest in S&P 500 stocks…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. I have so much to say right now that this should really be a VRA Members only podcast. I’m going to do one soon. Some of these sworn affidavits being submitted are almost impossible to believe. Rudy Giuliani got into one last night.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Octobers jobs report is out and its a good report. 638,000 jobs added…just a bit on the low side…with the unemployment rate falling to 6.9%, a big beat from the estimate of 7.6%, and a full percentage point lower from Septembers 7.9%. Dow futures were -200…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Big day today. 3rd Quarter GDP came in at a blistering 33.1%, breaking every record known to man. Now we get to find out if its a “buy the rumor sell the news” event. And this is a huge day for earnings, with the biggest of big tech reporting (after the close).
Read MoreGood Friday morning. In this Special VRA Election Update we are focusing on market signals that may be pointing to either a Biden or a Trump win. Observing the action in the markets and key sectors, historically, global investing patterns…
Read MoreFollowing another sharp move higher yesterday, our melt up move higher forecast continues. We're learning this morning that Mnuchin has raised his stimulus total offer to $1.7 trillion, including another round of $1200 checks and a further bump in PPP,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Multiple important bases to cover this AM. 1) Yesterdays sell-off took place on 90% downside volume in NYSE. Old school market watchers look for these as a signal of selling capitulation. We will need to see a corresponding upside day in order to validate.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Markets were less than enthused by what they heard from J Powell and the FED this week. On the one hand they said they would keep rates near zero through 2023…that’s been the case for all of 2 of the last 10 years…but on the other…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Another set of new ATH’s in S&P 500 and Nasdaq yesterday while the Dow jumped 454 points (+1.6%), putting it just 468 points from hitting its own ATH. And the internals finally improved yesterday…after two weeks of “blah” readings. Good to see.
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. US and global markets taking a pause after hitting new ATH's this week in consumer discretionary, consumer staples, semis, health care and home builders. New highs tend to beget new highs. With no resistance above in these sectors,
Read MoreCARES ACT Phase 4 Negotiations. Setting the Record Straight, With Thanks to Three Men. With congress back in session, negotiations are hot and heavy for Phase 4 of the CARES Act. I remain thunderstruck by the financial assistance that’s been provided to the American people…
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. New closing highs in Nasdaq with a golden cross in S&P 500 looking pretty certain today, even as most everyone that I know, speak with and follow feels like the bottom could drop out at any moment. With CV mass hysteria raging (again),
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Reminder that US markets are closed tomorrow in observance of Independence Day, we hope you have a great holiday. June employment data is out and its another big shocker. 4.8 million jobs were added in June vs the estimate of 2.9 million,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Following the Dows -710 point yesterday we’re looking at -150 this AM. Second wave CV fears abound and a market looking for its next round of monetary (Fed) and fiscal (govt) stimulus.
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. The 400 point swing in the Dow yesterday, from +220 to -170 at the close continues a bit this morning with Dow futures -140. One week ago today was the -1800 point move lower in the Dow (-6%) with -8% in the R2K….
Read MoreGood Friday morning all. Yesterdays 1800 point loss in the Dow is being met with +600 point gains in futures. I’ll be surprised if these gains hold. After a 48% 2-month move higher and then yesterdays -7% drop and the “hideous” internals (among the worst in history,
Read MoreGood Thursday morning all. Another 2.1 million have filed initial jobless claims, taking the total to 40 million from the onset of CV lockdowns. Many/most blue states are in no rush to reopen their economies and even in states that are reopening,
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