Market Decline
Jan
08
2019
The Fed Was Not The Only One To Tighten Last Month
Wage inflation should accelerate in the months ahead, oil could bounce from its oversold low, and college textbooks might double in price before the fall semester. No problem…
Jan
08
2019
The Line Of Least Resistance Is Lower
At some point in his career, famed stock trader Jesse Livermore ceased using the terms bull and bear, opting instead to describe trends in terms of “lines of least resistance.”
Jan
04
2019
How This ‘Borderline’ Bear Stacks Up
The S&P 500 has again shown its mysterious ability to defy the conventional bear market threshold, with the decline into its Christmas Eve low becoming the fourth one in the last 30 years to halt just shy of the magic -20% figure.
Dec
28
2018
Stocks Just Delivered A Strong Deflationary Impulse
Investors have just suffered a negative wealth effect that will likely work to tamp down inflation over the next year.