One of the most consistent market criticisms bears have pointed to over the past several years is the lack of participation from banks and Financial stocks as a group. The concern has certainly been warranted as Financials are the worst performing sector outside of Energy and Materials since the market registered record highs back in […]
Diverging Performance Among Chinese Stocks
The prevailing narrative is that growth has slowed in China amid the escalation in tariffs while the US economy and stock market have been relatively unscathed by the trade dispute. The simplest way to measure the winner and loser of the current trade war is by comparing the performance of each nation’s stock market. Interestingly, […]
Bitcoin Breaks Down But Remains Leadership
While investors have been busy with headlines related to the Fed, trade negotiations, Brexit news and more, it has been a relatively quiet summer for the usually rambunctious Cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin ($BTCUSD) and “Alt-Coins” such as Ethereum ($ETHUSD) and Litecoin ($LTCUSD) rallied aggressively from April to June but volatility has since cooled off as prices […]
Rotation Into Small-Cap Tech
It’s a tech dominated world and the stock market is no different. The latest cyclical bull market was powered by high-growth areas like Semiconductors, Application Software, Internet & Social Media. Technology has been leadership along the market cap scale for several years. Now with Equities trading back towards record highs, it would be a bullish […]
Unlocking the Value in Financials
The talk of the town this week has been the swift rotation out of Growth and Momentum and into the Value factor. As interest rates and yield spreads have stabilized, cyclical areas of the market such as Transports, Retail, Banks and Energy have caught a bid. While itβs likely a bullish development for the broader […]