Stock Indices

We are being brainwashed – gaslighted – into ignoring current threats – into believing that these threats are not real.

A look at the data provides some interesting insights as to what the election’s potential impact will likely have on financial markets.

I believe the SMART stocks should be cornerstones of a portfolio exposed to the rising digital economy we live in. An economy driven by data, digital payments, targeted advertising, streaming and new social interaction at your fingertips.

The S&P Dow Jones Indices is making changes to the DJIA as a consequence of the announcement of Apple's share split in a ratio of 4 to 1 after the market close next Friday.

Stock market return fluctuations tend to cycle these 9 cycles collectively suggest the stock market should probably rise to all-time highs at least into late July but that the next three years could be horrid.

There is no doubt that America is smack-dab in the middle of a severe recession, unrivaled in magnitude in the past 80 years, yet, you wouldn't know it by looking at the stock market. How can this be? Why are equity markets rising in the teeth of the storm? 

The only asset class that will do well in the foreseeable future is precious metals, particularly gold. 

This article takes a look at how the current market crash compares with the market crashes of 1929, 1987, 2000, and 2008-2009 and how the economic backdrop of each crash differed to assess what conditions to look for in buying opportunities after this crash.

If the oil price is swinging lower then the stock market usually also soon starts to swing lower and that is exactly what happened to the stock market beginning in early January only to be further exacerbated by the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March. Talk about a perfect storm!

After the current counter-trend rally fizzles out and the primary bear market trend resumes, in the course of the next leg down, U.S. equity prices will collapse significantly below recent lows and establish a bottom somewhere between the range of approximately 1900 and 1500 on the S&P 500 index. In this article I explain why that is the case.