While the market has seen many components hit pretty hard in the last few sessions, there remains one sector that seems to have been able to weather the storm: Utilities ($XLU). As market participants leave “risk-on” sectors such as Technology ($XLK) and Consumer Discretionary ($XLY), we are seeing a flight to safety towards more defensive […]
What is Volatility Telling Us?
For most of the year, volatility, typically monitored via the CBOE Volatility Index ($VIX), has been pretty stable. After reaching a peak of 36 in late December, the index has seen a steady decline back to levels that typically translate to healthy equity markets. However, over the last week or so, we have seen the […]
What’s In-Store for Small Caps?
There has been much debate over where Small-Cap equities will go next. The Russell 2000 is currently hovering around resistance at the 1590 level. Performance wise, it has been a ‘tale of two halves’ for Small-Caps so far this year. Through the first two months of the year, $IWM outpaced the other three major US […]
Dollar Perking Up
One asset class that seems to have garnered quite a bit of attention lately isn’t equities or fixed income, but currencies, and in particular the US Dollar ($USD). Is the domestic currency finally ready to move higher after being range-bound for the last nine months? Last week, J.C. Parets of All Star Charts posed the […]
Financials Showing Potential
In the last week, one area that has seen strength (and a lot of attention from traders and investors alike) has been Financials. This sector is commonly regarded as one of the most important in the market, given that it is a 13% weighting in the S&P 500 ($SPX) and an 18% weighting in the […]
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