Insider buying more than doubled last week with insiders buying $252.12 million of stock compared to $87.63 million in the week prior. Selling on the other hand decreased with insiders selling $693.93 million of stock last week compared to $825.55 million in the week prior. We had another volatile week in the equity markets with little overall impact as…
It’s been a very tough stock market for traders who are battling along with the bulls and bears. Friday’s action was somewhat encouraging, albeit on lower volume. Lower volume does not show commitment but rather a potential bear market rally. The market rallied due to jawboning of crude cutbacks. Crude flew up and the stock…
Market Overview On Thursday, a decline which started at 1947 on the SPX broke the January 20 low of 1812 by a couple of points, and immediately reversed to finish on Friday’s close at 1864, with a 52-point bounce.Because of this being a potential double bottom, some analysts were quick to call this a bottom…
Tech and Large Cap indices sit on the border between a bear market or a steep correction. While Small Caps have fallen into bear market territory, there is still a chance for other indices to come in from the precipice. The most bullish of these markers is Nasdaq Breadth metrics. Nasdaq Bullish Percents and Percentage…
Long before the mainstream media caught on to the topic of SWF selling of stocks, we warned a month ago that as a result of the collapse in oil, and assuming oil remains priced at roughly $31 per barrel, the world’s largest SWFs shown in the chart below… … would be forced to liquidate at least $75…
Global stock market volatility, oil price collapse and economic slowdown in China continue to rattle investor confidence this year. Former high flying stocks have come back to earth in the past few weeks as investors worry about the impact of weak global demand on corporate earnings. Investors had poured a lot of money into these…
The traditional definitions of a “market correction” and a “bear market” are 10% and 20% declines, respectively. All eight indexes on our global watch list have been in correction territory, and as of the end of last week, seven of the eight had dropped into bear territory. The S&P 500 is the one outlier. It has been…
This stock’s yield will only be this high temporarily, so if you worry about having a dependable income stream to help you during your retirement, jump on this chance to earn a 17% and growing yield forever. As the stock markets fall, my email box and news feeds are starting to fill up with dire…
In January 2016, global foreign reserves (FX) continued their decline after an absolute peak in June 2014, declining significantly in distressed emerging countries and some notable oil-producing economies (see Figure 1). Figure 1. China and Saudi Arabia, the leading owners of foreign reserves outside the OECD circle, both experienced an outflow greater than 5% of…
All successful social media businesses have one thing in common: they are constantly growing their user bases. Sadly, Twitter (TWTR) reported 320 million users in the December quarter, flat with the previous quarter and up 9% YoY, missing analysts’ expectations by 5 million users. And to make matters worse, the service lost over 2 million…
