By Mike Larson On April 27, 202108:00 AM Eastern
One look at the chart of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLV, Rated “B-”) suggests the answer is, “Yes.” It just broke out of multi-week resistance to an all-time high.
Your Heat...
By Jon D. Markman On April 27, 202106:00 AM Eastern
As a self-styled, big-picture, geo-macro guy, I’m drawn to “great power” history and politics. So, lately, I’ve been reading a lot about our evolving relationship with China.
It’s fascinating...
By Marija Matic On April 26, 202104:16 PM Eastern
The King of Crypto’s dip below $50,000 had many new market participants nervous the last couple of days, but it was largely a function of traditional markets’ reaction to the Biden...
By Jon D. Markman On April 26, 202103:05 PM Eastern
Stocks are on the move higher today ahead of a busy earnings reporting week for mega-cap technology.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0.1% to 34,071.76. The S&P 500 was higher by 0.2% to...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On April 26, 202111:32 AM Eastern
Washington D.C. has thrown open the floodgates, showering trillions of dollars on the markets and the economy. It's also racking up enormous debts and deficits in the process.
That’s why Weiss...
By Jon D. Markman On April 26, 202106:28 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 surged on Friday to 4,180, a gain of 1.1%. The benchmark is now only 0.1% from a record high. The gains came despite news on Thursday that the Biden administration may be planning a...
By Jon D. Markman On April 25, 202107:00 AM Eastern
Here’s the burning question for investors: Is the stock market’s meteoric rise since March of last year hinged on merely hope, or is it, well ... real?
Jon Markman, senior analyst and editor of...
By Tony Sagami On April 23, 202105:07 PM Eastern
The Roaring Twenties was largely a product of pent-up demand released in the aftermath of World War I and the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic, which infected one-third of the planet’s population and...
By Sam Blumenfeld On April 23, 202104:00 PM Eastern
Both the cryptocurrency market and old-school financial markets are digesting the details of new revenue measures under consideration by the Biden administration.
• Bitcoin (BTC, Tech/Adoption...
By Jon D. Markman On April 23, 202102:55 PM Eastern
Stocks are firmer in midday trading on Friday, recovering from a tax-hike scare on the wealthiest Americans the session before while key indexes are still heading for small weekly losses amid a...