There’s a lot to like about this bull market. Breadth has improved. Emerging markets are breaking out. Small-caps are rotating higher. New 52-week highs on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are expanding. That’s not what major tops are made…
The last shoe just dropped. The S&P SmallCap 600 is now making new all-time highs. Up until now, it had been the only major U.S. equity benchmark sitting out the party. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, S&P MidCap…
The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) is on track to close the week at its lowest level since 2022. If you listen to the popular narrative, that weakness is the reason stocks have been able to rip higher. The story goes…
It’s difficult for a stock market to roll over into a meaningful correction, let alone a bear market, when more and more stocks keep pushing higher. Expanding breadth and rising participation are not features of weakening markets. They are what…
There are 11 sectors in the S&P 500, ranging from financials and industrials to utilities, real estate, and energy. One area we’ve barely talked about over the past few years is health care. Outside of biotechnology and a handful of…
On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time in its history. That number matters. And yes, I know some people will argue with me, but I’ll keep pounding the table anyway. The Dow remains…
The pessimism around the stock market is back. That didn’t take long. All it took was software stocks sliding back toward last year’s lows and bitcoin getting cut in half, and suddenly the same crowd is declaring the bull market…
Today marks one year since the company formerly known as MicroStrategy announced it was rebranding to simply Strategy (MSTR), leaning all the way into its new identity as a Bitcoin treasury company instead of a software business. Since that announcement,…
Over the past three months, almost everything has been going up. No, really. Most stocks have been rallying. It just doesn’t feel that way if your entire frame of reference is the biggest technology stocks and the so-called “Magnificent 7.”…
The end of each month is the perfect time to step back, zoom out, and look beyond the noise. Not just at U.S. stocks. At stocks everywhere. This is a global asset class. Always has been. And many of the…
The stock market rarely reacts well when volatility erupts elsewhere. Last week, we saw historic swings in the metals market. That volatility spilled into currencies, and before long it showed up in many stocks as well. When commodities and forex…
We just entered one of the most difficult months of the year for stocks. The strongest three-month stretch on the calendar, November through January, is officially behind us. Historically, what follows is not a victory lap. It’s the hangover. As…
