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Central Banks are at it Again
During the past two trading sessions, we’ve seen a very nice move higher in the major averages. The Dow surged more than 300 points Thursday, and midway through Friday trade, the Industrials were up more than 100 points. Solid earnings reports from the likes of Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT) and others helped inspire […]
Behold the Golden Breakout!
What do you get when the dollar is getting weaker due to the growing unlikelihood of a Fed rate hike in 2015? You get a golden breakout. This week, we saw a dramatic rally in gold, silver and gold mining stocks. In the case of gold bullion prices, the chart here of the SPDR Gold […]
Despite the Bad Press, ETFs are Better than Mutual Funds
When it comes to public relations, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) haven’t had it all too well. It was just more than six weeks ago that the world of ETFs suffered the embarrassment of Aug. 24. That was the day of the crazy mispricing action that resulted in some of the market’s most stable and widely held […]
A Downright Ugly Q3
What can you say about a third quarter that witnessed the worst decline in the major domestic averages since 2011? You call that a downright ugly Q3. Just about everywhere you looked among domestic and global equities, it was easy to see a whole lot of red. The table below of the top 10 domestic […]
A Yellen Turnabout on Rates?
Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve decided to leave interest rates unchanged, citing recent global economic and financial developments that “may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term.” Fast-forward to this Thursday, Sept. 24, and we got a decidedly different spin on what’s likely to […]
Just Blame It on ‘Global Economic Developments’
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged Thursday. Though a slight majority of pundits were predicting that the Fed would do just that, I don’t think many had anticipated the reason why the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept rates at near-zero. Here’s the money quote, direct from yesterday’s FOMC statement: “Recent global economic and […]
New Rule for ETF Investors: Stop Using Stops
I am a huge fan of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). In fact, there may be no bigger advocate of these products than me. I love ETFs for multiple reasons, including their transparency, ease of use, low cost and diversity. It is my view that ETFs are perhaps the best innovation to ever come out of the […]
It’s More Like 2011 than 2014
The latest bout of selling in equity markets has been compared to the big drop below the 200-day moving average that occurred in October 2014. While the 2014 breakdown was similar to what’s happened this year in terms of its rapid descent, looking at the big picture, the current decline appears to me to be […]
Bad Things Happen Under the 200-Day Average
To describe this wild week as anything but the epitome of craziness would be the height of understatement. So, I’ll dispense with a recap and just say that the nearly unprecedented volatility and market swings since Wednesday, Aug. 19, are an example of the kinds of bad things that tend to happen when stocks trade […]
Three Major Indices are Approaching Bear Market Status
The Three Bears Have Arrived There’s no Goldilocks in the markets right now. There are only the three bears — and those bears are growling with ferocity. Although not technically in a bear market in terms of percentage off the recent high, my benchmark for what I consider a market trouncing into bear territory is […]
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
