The predictable result after several days of rallying? Mr. Market is taking back some of investors’ profits today. No thanks to Home Depot, the Dow, off some 200 points earlier Tuesday, remains in negative territory.
Market overreactions based on projected Amazon attacks on bricks-and-mortar stalwarts can be rare buying opportunities.
Home Depot, Lowes, Consol Energy all make our portfolio happy. Ditto Charles Schwab’s high-performing major growth company ETF, SCHG.
End-of-quarter stock dumping, window dressing in progress, making Thursday and Friday treacherous times to buy. Maybe next week?
Sector rotation, headline risk will dominate trading action in Q4 2017. Here’s what we’re exploring: Financials, transports, oil companies and target ETFs.
After what appeared to be a selling climax last week, both Allergan common and convertible preferred shares soar. But beleaguered Apple shares refuse to follow.
Pharmas get a bounce as McCain screws the Republican's Graham-Cassidy pooch. Apple ends worst week of year, slowing, not stopping its descent. CNX gets a bid.
Wall Street’s post-Irma, Weird Wednesday action finds averages slightly flat with a negative bias. Home Depot, Valero pop, biopharma secondaries drop.
Traders appear to be hedging Friday against what could be a catastrophic, costly hit on Florida by Irma this weekend. Financials hurt, Home Depot, Lowe’s gain.
WASHINGTON, September 5, 2017 – As we’ve noted in our companion column, news of North Korea’s latest blatant act of nuclear one upsmanship has sent U.S. stocks into a swan dive Tuesday. Other market fundamentals, however, are still transfixed by one key question: How quickly all manner of energy companies with business in the Houston-Louisiana ...
Stock markets are completely confused Monday as investors try to sort out losers and winners to emerge from Hurricane Harvey’s ongoing devastation.
McClellan Oscillator attempts to relieve oversold market conditions, but it’s not giving our own positions very much help this week. Then, there’s the Fed.
Bricks-and-mortar retail iffiness apparently enough to halt Monday’s irrational exuberance. No clear direction for this week’s trades.
Retail malaise, fear of August correction, Dick's Sporting Goods and AWOL summer vacationing traders and investors make for a dull day, as markets remain confused and lack conviction.
Our portfolios have been pounded this week. Good inflation news helps stocks Friday, though the selling tsunami may not be over yet. (But Home Depot rules.)
Taking gains in a toppy market is a good idea, although we may get back into some of the fine companies we’ve temporarily chosen to abandon.
We reverse field on Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) and take advantage (we hope) of Home Depot’s Amazon-induced dive off the appliance cliff.
Summer doldrums, Washington malaise and inefficiency, and surprise Amazon-Sears-Kenmore hook-up cause stocks to drift down again.
WASHINGTON, November 17, 2015 – Boring trading is dominating Tuesday’s jaded markets. Home Depot’s (symbol: HD) numbers jazzed traders at the opening bell, although the halo effect is diminishing as we write this around 2 p.m. EST. The Dow is up approximately 83 points with other averages showing similar approximately 0.5 percent gains. But markets ...
Obama "negotiates" via 24/7 scare tactics.