Articles from Talk Markets

Financials and energy are choking out. The advance/decline line of stocks going up vs. stocks going down is now decisively negative.

Today belonged to the Nasdaq. There was a good opening gap and the index kicked on nicely on higher volume accumulation. Technicals are net bullish. Healthy action with no bearish divergences flagged.

Last year, the world spent $1.8 trillion on the energy transition – yet we’re just scratching the surface.

If federal spending falls significantly, millions of workers paid by federal contracts and grants will have to join the private sector.

Out of three, two of these stocks underwent price corrections. All three have prospective growth.

Small businesses with employees 1-49 are struggling in 2024. Large businesses are booming.

During COVID, services and manufacturing decoupled and now the manufacturing sector is behaving as if it's coming out of a recession.

Debanking is a symptom of deeper problems with our system of governance. The problem cannot be fixed through “regulation”, because the problem is caused by regulation.

Employment dropped from 53.0 to 51.5, with only 5 industries reporting growth.

Gold and silver edged higher, as the dollar chopped sideways.

The US 2yr has finally managed to break below the 4.15% area (now at 4.11%), following three failed attempts in the past week.

TLTs cleared the 50 and 200 daily moving averages. This is interesting as the 2 MAs also had a death cross.

Atkins served as an SEC commissioner from 2002 through 2008.

Marvell Technology stock is well-positioned to benefit from AI tailwinds.

Citigroup is a global financial-services company doing business in more than 100 countries and jurisdictions.

These Dividend Kings tend to fly under the radar of most investors, but are quality dividend growth stocks.

Stocks resumed their uptrend today, with the all three major benchmarks each scoring record closes.

A discussion about the potential impact of the upcoming Chinese economic stimulus on global markets, emphasizing its importance for Chinese stocks and the broader bullish momentum in December.

The market action suggests that the corrective upswing is maturing and likely about to end.

As the ranks of option strategy ETFs continue to grow, it’s interesting to see which strategies fund sponsors will pick to set their ETFs apart from the crowd.

Is it time to take a stake in promising satellite companies?

Only 12 stocks in the S&P 500 were down 10% or more between 11/5 and the close yesterday (11/3).

The curve is usually plotted with time to maturity on the x-axis and yield on the y-axis. The shape of the yield curve reflects market expectations about future interest rates, economic growth, and inflation.

​​​​​​​The November reading of the US ISM services index is quite a bit weaker than predicted. The headline balance dropped to 52.1 from 56.0 versus a consensus forecast of 55.7.

Economic growth and added complexity sound like they would be good, but at some point, the combination gets to be too much–simplification is needed.