Friends   Ok, we are off to a decent start to May. After the close yesterday we got earnings releases from Microsoft and Meta, and both were fantastic. Today after the close we get to see what Apple and Amazon have to say. The Dow and the S&P’s winning streaks are...

Friends   What a wild month of trading. Dramatic selloffs, breathtaking rallies. April had it all. Today we saw stocks sell off rather substantially at the open after we got a negative first quarter GDP print and a weaker than expected private payroll number. The...

Friends   The bulls are trying to finish April on a high note as stocks continue to add to their winning streak. Earnings have been ok and tariff rhetoric has been softening. We’ll get both inflation and jobs data as the rest of the week unfolds, and earnings from...

  Friends   Trading was choppy to start the week, but in the end the bulls were able to scratch out modest gains in the market averages. It’s a big week for corporate earnings as we’ll hear from the likes of Coca-Cola, Master Card, Prudential, Amgen, Lilly, McDonalds,...

Friends   Despite the mixed messaging coming from The White House and various trading partners around the world, stocks were mostly calm today with an upward tilt. After Monday’s meltdown, stocks recovered nicely as the week unfolded. Typically bear market rallies are...

Friends   Three in a row. That’s what’s called a winning streak. For the third day in a row stocks moved nicely higher as things appeared to be bit quieter with regards to tariff headlines. Silence is golden at the moment. Earnings reports have been mixed but the...

Friends   Stocks added to yesterday's rally but did finish well off the highs of the day. Market participants found comfort in the fact the President made it clear that he was not going to fire, or try to fire Fed Chair Powell, while at the same time backing off on...

Friends   We mentioned yesterday that we are getting oversold again and that we could see a nice rally at some point this week. Well, we got that rally today which basically just recouped what we lost yesterday and a little more. Nevertheless, as I have mentioned a...

Friends   I know I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but it was another difficult day for stocks. We now enter a very complicated earnings season where companies are going to have a difficult time explaining their future earnings outlook given the uncertainty...

Friends   It was another volatile day for the markets. The Dow had the most difficult day as one of its most heavily weighted components United Health had a miserable earnings report. But if you take away United Health the market averages ended up mostly flat for the...

Friends   It was another difficult day for stocks with the Nasdaq leading the way lower. Chip makers were especially hard hit after negative tariff news with Nvidia, AMD, Micron and ASML all down sharply. This morning’s retail sales numbers were not as bad as expected...

Friends   It was a good start to the week for stocks as word of tariff exemptions for many tech products helped fuel a broad rally across the board. We know that things can and will likely continue to change quickly in the coming days and weeks with regards to tariff...

Friends   What a week! Stocks moved back up again today as the roller coaster ride continues. On the economic data front, the PPI number which measures inflation at the wholesale level came in lighter than expected with core year over year at 3.3% versus the 3.6%...

Friends   Holy cow. I mentioned yesterday that the reversal we saw in stocks was the largest I had ever seen in my 41 years in the business. I was right as evidently it was the biggest reversal since the 70’s (I was still in high school then). After the market closed...

Friends   Wow, that might have been the ugliest intra-day reversal I have ever seen in my 41 years in this business. Yesterday’s massive early morning reversal was from negative to positive on the 90-day rumor. Today’s reversal was in the other direction...