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Another Bank Failure: How to Tell if Your Bank is At Risk Another bank failure, another underperforming share price. Philadelphia-based Republic First Bank was closed down on Friday, April 26, and the assets were sold to Fulton Bank. Republic First becomes the first bank failure of 2024. Given our outlook for the stock market and… Read more Another Bank Failure |
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Time Tested Indicator
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Why You Should Pay Attention to This Time-Tested Indicator Now “How High Can Markets Go?” — asks this magazine cover Paul Montgomery’s Magazine Cover Indicator postulates that by the time a financial asset makes it to the cover of a well-known news weekly, the existing trend has been going on for so long that it’s… Read more Time Tested Indicator |
Bullish Buzz at Highest Level
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This “Bullish Buzz” Reaches Highest Level in 53 Years Learn what the AIM Index reveals By Elliott Wave International Yes, there’s been a recent pickup in stock market volatility, but overall, bullish sentiment remains very much alive and well. Indeed, here’s a Feb. 18 Yahoo! Finance headline: A Bull Market is Here. On April 9,… Read more Bullish Buzz at Highest Level |
Signs of Economic Slowdown
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3 Signs of Developing U.S. Economic Slowdown “Credit standards are tightening, thereby freezing out borrowers” Recent headlines about the U.S. economy are rosy: US economic growth for last quarter is revised up slightly to a healthy 3.4% annual rate (AP News, March 28) US economy continues to shine with help from consumers, labor market (Reuters,… Read more Signs of Economic Slowdown |
Gold Price Targets
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Gold: Setting Near-Term Price Targets This was our “initial upside target” — which has now been exceeded. What’s next? Around the first week of the year, the outlook for gold was not looking promising, at least according to this Jan. 5 headline (Reuters): Gold set for weekly decline as dollar, yields climb The rally in… Read more Gold Price Targets |
Insider Selling in Stocks
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Stocks: What to Make of All This Insider Selling Here are details of “The Great Cash-Out” Corporate insiders may sell the shares of their company for any number of reasons but one of them is not because they think the price is going up. In other words, insider selling can serve as a warning. For… Read more Insider Selling in Stocks |
Extreme Greed in Stocks
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S&P 500: What to Make of Fear Versus Greed This sentiment index combines seven indicators into one useful trend measure That is — market participants generally go from feeling deeply pessimistic all the way to feeling highly optimistic — and then back again. These swings in investor psychology tend to produce similar circumstances at corresponding… Read more Extreme Greed in Stocks |
What the Fear Index VIX May be Saying
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What “Fear Index” VIX May Be Signaling “Note the succession of higher closing low relative to higher highs in…” First, just a quick basic fact about the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) — also known as the stock market’s “fear gauge”: the lower the reading, the higher the complacency among investors. Higher readings indicate increased investor… Read more What the Fear Index VIX May be Saying |
China’s Housing Bust
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Here’s an Update on China’s Big Housing Bust “Property market weakness is now spreading into the overall economy.” If you’re wondering about the future value of your home or the housing market in general, you may want to pay attention to what’s going on in China. The bottom line: The way we see it at… Read more China’s Housing Bust |
Once in a Lifetime Debt Crisis
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Why You Should Expect a Once-in-a-Lifetime Debt Crisis U.S. credit card debt surpasses $1 trillion On a national level, a debt crisis occurs when a country is unable to pay back its government debt. This might result from government spending exceeding tax revenues for an extended period. On an individual level, a crisis can result… Read more Once in a Lifetime Debt Crisis |