I spent a big part of the weekend working on the soon to be released major update to the TradeRadar software. As a result, I fell behind on the usual weekend blog posts. What follows then, is a combination of our Weekly Review and the Weekend Winners a…
Stocks eased off this week. On Tuesday, it was more like a tumble than an easing but when the week was over major averages had given up roughly half a percent. After two weeks of strong gains, this was a bit of a disappointment but then it’s not unexpe…
If you’re wondering whether the current rally has legs, I’d like to submit the following charts. They’re derived from data collected during our Alert HQ process and they provide a high-level look at a couple of the indicators we track across the …
The family wants me to watch the Super Bowl with them and stop this darn blogging. And you know, I think that’s a pretty good idea so I’m just going provide a really abbreviated post that looks at our Alert HQ overall market statistics.
The following …
Outside of the stock market, it was actually a pretty decent week. Here are some of the better things that happened:
Ben Bernanke was re-appointed and, contrary perhaps to how many bloggers felt, investors were relieved
4th quarter GDP did indeed come …
As I mentioned in yesterday’s Alert HQ post, SELL signals dominate after a week in which stocks slid sharply. Here are the reasons most commonly given for the decline in stock prices:
China’s central bank is restricting lending at some (though not all)…
Earnings season kicked off this week and investors were in a sour mood.
Alcoa (AA) started things off with a miss and that set an ugly tone. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) beat earnings expectations but came in light on revenues, increased loan loss reserves an…
The last week of 2009 provided a less than thrilling end to a year that supplied more excitement than most investors could stand.
Economic reports, however, were pretty decent. The weekly initial jobless claims turned out much better than expected. Ch…
Investors focused on the positive and drove stocks to new highs in a low-volume, holiday-shortened week. It could have gone the other way as economic reports were mixed. Investors cheered improvements in existing home sales and a drop in initial jobles…
Stocks gyrated this week in response to the release of the latest FOMC policy statement and developments in Greece including the corresponding downgrade of Greek government bonds. Economic reports were mixed. The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose more th…