s&p 500

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

The Weekly S&P500 Chart Storm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions...

And the Bull Market is back on. After the wobble on Monday the Dow Jones has jumped over 1000 points in three days. Why did we ever question it? Maybe because the S&P...

Precious metals fell sharply in June 2021, with gold, which fell by more than 7%, recording one of its largest monthly declines of the last decade. The key driver of...

US corporate earnings (S&P 500) totalled US$421 billion, up 27% compared to the first quarter of 2019 (pre-pandemic earnings). At a time when unemployment remains...

Savers have long recognised the need to balance income and capital, but recently this has proven difficult as yields of all asset classes have fallen to very low...

Seasonal headwinds are setting in for stocks. Looking across assets, risk assets tend to underperform from June-Nov, and defensive assets tend to outperform during...

Corporate capex growth crashed in 2020 for understandable reasons.Commodity capex in particular contracted at a record pace and now its weighting of total S&P500 capex...

The local market had a volatile day that finished slightly positive. We have finished the ninth consecutive week without a single day’s turnover above $9 billion....

Whether you think there is a bubble, or the current valuations are justified doesn’t matter. It’s a fact that valuations are higher than they have ever been for many...

Most of the time, financial markets ebb and flow like the tide. All boats are lifted or fall together. But sometimes, different assets part company, responding to the...

Options markets are exhibiting two unusual dynamics at the moment that can provide some insight on investor positioning and sentiment. For contrarians, the signals...

Do today’s minuscule rates of interest justify stock markets’ sky-high valuations? Bulls often imply – and sometimes boldly assert – that they do, and mainstream...

It was the 1970s - ‘72 to be exact, and apart from Gough Whitlam coming to power in Australia, Watergate in the US, and bellbottoms everywhere, it was the height of...

The USD gold price hit record highs in July, trading above USD 1,960 per troy ounce. Silver also rallied strongly, up by more than 30% for the month. Declining real...

Global equities eked out further gains last week, largely reflecting more vaccine hopes, good JP Morgan earnings and general relief that more widespread lockdowns were...

In this article I am going to discuss the composition of the S&P/NZX 50 index, which is considered New Zealand’s principle gauge of how the New Zealand share market is...

Global equities tried hard to remain positive last week even as new CV-19 cases continued to emerge in Beijing and some U.S. states. After the previous Thursday’s...

After basking in fever pitch risk-on sentiment in the previous week, global markets slumped last week as dour economic forecasts from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a...