With 2019 in the books, let’s take a look at how stocks performed this year. 2019 was undoubtedly a good year for US Equities with all four major indices sporting above-average returns. The Nasdaq was the strongest index with a gain of 37.87%, marking its best year since 2009. The S&P 500 also had an […]
Asian Tigers Make New Highs
The historic performance of US stocks in 2019 is all the buzz heading into year-end. But it’s not only US Equities that deserve attention as indexes all over the world have been making new highs recently. Last week, we discussed the strength from European Equities in our post A Trip Around Europe and today we are […]
A Minor Pullback and the Abandoned Baby
This week, the market saw its fifth-largest pullback since the start of 2019. The S&P 500 peaked the day before Thanksgiving and fell about 2.80% over the following three sessions. We’ve been quite bullish on Stocks over the past few months, and this recent pullback hasn’t changed our outlook. If anything, we view it as healthy, […]
The Lifeblood of Bull Markets: Sector Rotation
We spent a lot of time this year talking about “the safety trade.” We used this term to describe the outperformance we were seeing from some of the defensive sectors of the market, namely Utilities, REITs, and Consumer Staples. These three sectors are now falling out of favor as investors rotate into more cyclical, “risk-on” […]
A Bullish Combination
Legendary analyst Paul Montgomery once said: “The most bullish thing the stock market can do is go up.” The S&P 500 printed a fresh all-time high today for the first time since July. Despite this bullish development, investors remain cautious. The combination of stocks breaking out and bearish sentiment could fuel the next leg of […]
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