A Furious Rally
The S&P 500 has rallied furiously from its October 15th low. Over the last 24 trading days, the index has gained 10.1%--the largest such...
Where do Stocks go from Here?
As measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the current bull market is over 2,000 days old—2,074 to be exact. That is the fourth...
Stocks Down 400 Points
"I was at the post office today and overheard someone comment that the stock market was way down, something like 400 points," wrote a...
Luxury Goods Indicator Ringing the Alarm Bells
Young Research’s Luxury Goods Index is a modified market-cap weighted index of some of the world’s most prestigious luxury brands. You would recognize many...
Can U.S. Stocks Decouple?
U.S. stocks are still up YTD, but the iShares MSCI All Country World Index excluding the U.S. is now down over 4% in 2014....
Market Internals Point toward a Correction
Markets internals aren't sending a signal of optimism. My first chart below on the NYSE advance-decline line looks like it is rolling over. The...
Most Hated S&P 500 Stocks
The late great Sir John Templeton, who was a pioneer in global investing and the manager of the Templeton Growth fund from 1954 to...
Will the Markets Notice Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?
Back in 2008, well before U.S. markets began spiraling out of control, Russian stocks tumbled in free fall. This was not an earlier realization...
Missing Out on Stocks
The following poll tells me that the average investor is fed-up with this stock market.
This Investing Fad Never Goes Out of Style
The only investing fad that never seems to go out of style on Wall Street is, well, fad stocks. King Digital Entertainment, maker of...