In general, World Equity markets have been grinding consistently higher since October with very little volatility. In the past week or so this has changed as many Indexes in Asia, particularly China’s Shanghai Composite, have endured some real structural damage. While the recent pullback is being attributed to the onslaught of negative headlines related to […]
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, […]
Emerging Markets Outperformance To Continue?
2018 was a challenging year for global markets overall. While the S&P 500 finished down -7.6%, Emerging Markets were hit harder ending -19.4%. With 2019 off to a great start for both assets, an interesting analysis is how Emerging Markets began to outperform the S&P 500 in October when US markets peaked. Since October 1st, […]
Ari Wald: Undercover Participation Leading the Market Recovery
Ari Wald, Head of Technical Analysis at Oppenheimer, was on Bloomberg’s ‘Smart Charts’ segment with Abigail Doolittle Wednesday afternoon discussing 3 key chart topics that indicate a positive sign for the markets, domestic and international, going forward. While there is still more work to do and resistance levels to get through, Ari believes investors need […]