Tech is overbought but remains in an uptrend. Wednesday, bears showed up as soon as the Nasdaq 100 kissed the upper end of a rising channel, but bulls are hanging tough. What happens here will have ramifications for other indices, … Continued
Info tech has become a favorite this year. Bulls have turned a blind eye to several metrics including the sector’s contribution to S&P 500 earnings being much smaller than its share of market cap. Information technology has been a go-to … Continued
Ahead of Wednesday’s March CPI and after a nice two- to three-week rally, sellers show up at important resistance on major US equity indices. With the daily in overbought territory, the bias is to the downside near term. Trader expectations … Continued
In March, The Nasdaq 100 jumped 9.5 percent. In contrast, the S&P 500 only managed to rally 3.5 percent, while the Russell 2000 small cap index gave back five percent. Tech’s outperformance comes at a time when economically sensitive small-caps … Continued
The Nasdaq 100 is itching to break out, even as the Russell 2000 is on the verge of a breakdown. Small-caps have a larger exposure to the domestic economy and hence could be sending a message. Optimistic sell-side estimates for … Continued
The S&P 500 has dropped three weeks in a row. Santa Claus rally did not materialize this year, but the bulls just might get lucky as the year begins to wind down. Equity bulls found it very difficult to bust … Continued
This week is crucial. The FOMC meets, and an inflation report that could potentially impact monetary policy next year is on deck as well. Leading up to this, both large- and small-caps met with heavy selling pressure at crucial resistance. … Continued
Most traders on Wall Street grew up in a low-interest-rate, low-inflation environment. It is hard for them to relate to why Volcker acted the way he did in the late-‘70s/early-‘80s. Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen operated at a time when inflation … Continued
Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of November 29, 2022. 10-year note: Currently net short 296.8k, down 24.5k. Markets and the Federal Reserve are talking past each other. Chair Jerome Powell’s Wednesday speech was interpreted as dovish – probably … Continued
The S&P 500 has reached a crucial stage – kind of a make-or-break. Since peaking at 4819 in January this year, the large cap index has made two important lower highs – one in March and the other in August. … Continued