s&p 500

The S&P 500 (SPY) has been on the verge of a breakout for several days. It finally overtook the 200-day moving average and the downtrend line that has been in place for nearly 10 months. The index has closed above the big round resistance level of $4000 each of the past three trading days, but has yet to do it with conviction. This brings…

I was not the first guy to get bearish in 2022, but by May I got the memo just in the nick of time. This led to a major shift in my portfolio that allowed me to profit on the way down. And I have been steadfastly bearish since. But just like the Fed, my outlook is “data dependent”. And recent data has me becoming less bearish. Note that is not…

The First US ETF Remains the Liquidity Leader as Investors Enter the New Year Uncertain About the Market and Economy More than half of US investors with ETFs in their portfolio believe ETFs have made them a better investor. Nearly 60% say ETFs have improved the overall performance of their portfolio. Globally, just over half of…

As the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) celebrated its 30th anniversary, State Street hosted a panel discussion last night featuring Sue Thompson, head of Americas distribution for SPDR; Reggie Browne, principal at GTS Securities; and Doug Yones, head of exchange traded products at NYSE, moderated by Hilary Corman, head of U.S.…

DNY59 The Grantham's 2023 outlook Jeremy Grantham, who predicted the 2000 bear market, the 2008 bear market, and more recently the 2022 drawdown, just published his 2023 S&P 500 (SP500) outlook. His view is that the S&P 500 will finish 2023 near the 3200 level. Here is the key quote: My calculations of trendline value of the S&P 500,…

The early 2023 rally was always too good to be true. That’s because the myopic focus on moderating inflation needs to give way to a broader view of the looming recession which should have investors hitting the sell button in earnest once again. Not just a temporary pause like we saw Wednesday and Thursday. We need to take a deeper dive on this…

Bet_Noire SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY) is up by almost 15% since the Oct 13th, 2022, intraday low at 3491. Some analysts are predicting that the October 13th bottom is the bear market low point and that stocks are currently in a new bull market. For example, Ed Yardeni predicts that "stocks are back in a bull market as global…

FatCamera / Getty Images/iStockphoto The S&P 500 is one of the primary U.S. stock market indexes and is a favored…

It been roughly 40 years since investors have been faced with high inflation as the cause of a recession and bear market. And yet we have been dealt 5 bear market since that time. The point being that the majority of today’s investors have either never seen inflation cause a recession…or it is so far back in the memory banks that they don’t…

The SPDR S&P 500 SPY closed 0.39% higher on Friday, recapturing the 200-day simple moving average (SMA) after struggling at the level intraday.Whether or not the market is about to experience another bull rally and negate the bear market, or whether Friday’s price action is just another bull trap, remains to be seen.More experienced traders…