Tag: u.s. economic data

Key Takeaway: Bond yields are moving off of early year lows at a time when bond funds have seen a surge in inflows and...

Key Takeaway: First quarter GDP growth could fail to meet forecasts, but Q1 weakness in GDP is becoming a recurring theme. Other measures of...

Over the last several months I have said that I believe we have seen the market ‘highs’ (2133 on the S&P 500) and that...

U.S. stock market indices gained nearly 2.0% last week supported by friendly comments from Fed Chief Janet Yellen and the release of better-than-expected economic...

DC Comic’s fictional planet htraE (Earth spelled backwards) is the setting for the Bizarro World, a land most recently popularized by Seinfeld, where the Bizarro...

Focus Shifts to Economic Fundamentals The popular averages suffered the first downtick in six weeks last week with the damage limited to less than 1.00%....

Key Takeaway: Data out of the manufacturing sector has been encouraging; looking more like the industrial recession may have run its course. The relative...

February was an eventful month, as the stock market selloff seemed to abate somewhat on continued economic stimulus from China and the hope for...

Key Takeaway: Monthly changes in employment data are mostly noise and do not deserve the attention they get. Longer-term trends show continued (or even...

Stocks added to their gains last week as investors watched an early March stock market rally unfold. The S&P 500 posted its third consecutive weekly gain...