Market Update – Dull Trade With Stronger Signals of Big Volatility Event Brewing
12:52 PM ET As mentioned last night, index futures we’re bumping into resistance from yesterday’s pre market in early overnight...
Afternoon Update
Gold futures (+1.75%) are acting well after some higher volatility Friday. (30m) I’m all for consolidations, especially after a...
Market Update – Another ABI Signal In the Making
12:42 PM ET Several mega caps sold off at the open. Among the more notable are Meta and Amazon, dragging...
Afternoon Update
* I’m going to get this post out a little earlier than usual just so you have time to consider...
Absolute Breadth Index – 13.86
220 p.m. ET I’m getting a lot of messages inquiring about the level of the ABI so I thought I’d...
Market Update – Growth Scare
1225 p.m. ET Beyond a massive decline in Retail Sales… Import/Export prices showed that there was inflation, as opposed to...
Market Update – Relief, For Now…
321 p.m. ET The president’s update on reciprocal tariffs has been received well by the market. The Dow Jones Industrial...
Intraday Update – Tariffs Announced, I Guess…
211 p.m. ET I think we were all expecting a 1 p.m. news conference from President Trump. Hasn’t happened, but...
Reciprocal Tariffs On the Way
12:39 p.m. ET Today has been a busy day already (mostly on the political and geopolitical fronts, but economic data,...
Afternoon Update
It’s been an interesting day with inflation coming in hotter than expected, the Republican House of Representatives budget and tax...
CRB Index Breaking Out
103 p.m. ET This certainly won’t help the next CPI report…...
A Lot To Consider – HOT CPI, $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut
1259 p.m. ET There’s a lot of movement so far today. It’s not just CPI, but Powell speaking and several...
Afternoon Update
It’s still a pretty quiet, mixed day for the major averages with Small Cap underperformance. SPX 0%, DJIA +0.25% (Transports...
Early Update – Oil Getting Interesting – Powell Testifies
1231 p.m. ET I’m trying to multi-task this morning, listening to Powell’s testimony before Congress (day one of the 2-day,...
Afternoon Update
There’s been very little movement in the averages, S&P sectors or style factors since the earlier market update. (2m) There...
Market Update – Fairly Calm, Some Inflationary Commodities
1240 p.m. ET Friday the market was getting ugly and looking like an ugly Monday morning in what’s become a...
Afternoon Update
The stock market started the session on neutral footing. The major indices were moving higher early on, bolstered by mega...
Early Update – Inflationary Data
1257 p.m. ET I didn’t want to get too much into the Payrolls report given there’s a lot to pour...
Intraday Update
302 p.m. ET Here we are in today’s “slowed”, virtually flat market… SPX (1m) today in yellow. SPY’s (1m) short-term...
In “Wait & See” Mode
1215 p.m. ET Yesterday afternoon 3C showed that price momentum was fading in the post, “Slowing..” So far this morning,...