Stocks had another positive week, with the Dow adding a slight 0.10% while the S&P 500 climbed 0.20%. The NASDAQ Composite logged a 0.43% gain over the past five trading sessions. The real news, however, from a market standpoint was not just the week’s gains, but the outstanding performance during the month of October. The […]

I am often asked by readers, radio show listeners and clients about all things exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Why I like them so much, why they are better than mutual funds, why I prefer them to individual stocks, etc. Today, I am going to provide a few questions for you, questions you should ask yourself before

In Friday’s Hotline, we wrote that the gains over the past two weeks in stocks had put us on the “cusp of a new buy.” Today’s late-afternoon, post-FOMC rally resulted in stocks moving higher by more than 1% across the board. That move was enough to put our Domestic Fund Composite, or DFC, along with […]

Stocks enjoyed another big week of gains, with all three major averages surging. The Dow logged an impressive 2.5% win while the S&P 500 powered 2.03% higher. The NASDAQ Composite was the big winner on the week, surging 2.97%. Strong earnings reports from multiple big-tech companies—Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT) and several others—helped fuel […]

During the past two trading sessions, we’ve seen a very nice move higher in the major averages. The Dow surged more than 300 points Thursday, and midway through Friday trade, the Industrials were up more than 100 points. Solid earnings reports from the likes of Amazon.com (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT) and others helped inspire

Stocks had a positive week, with the S&P 500 gaining 0.90% while the Dow added 0.77%. The NASDAQ Composite was the biggest winner of the majors, climbing 1.16% over the past five trading sessions. The move higher this week inched us closer to a new Fabian Domestic Plan buy signal, but we’re not quite there […]

What do you get when the dollar is getting weaker due to the growing unlikelihood of a Fed rate hike in 2015? You get a golden breakout. This week, we saw a dramatic rally in gold, silver and gold mining stocks. In the case of gold bullion prices, the chart here of the SPDR Gold

Today’s big sell-off in the equity markets stole most of the headlines, but the real action in today’s trade is what happened in the gold, and in gold and silver mining stocks. Both the actual metal, and also the companies that dig it and other precious metals out of the ground, saw a big spike […]

After all of the downbeat data from the third quarter, this week’s action in stocks was refreshing for the bulls. The general consensus over what drove markets higher this week was the almost-certain delay in any Fed rate hike in 2015. While there were some Fed officials who came out and said a rate hike […]

When it comes to public relations, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) haven’t had it all too well. It was just more than six weeks ago that the world of ETFs suffered the embarrassment of Aug. 24. That was the day of the crazy mispricing action that resulted in some of the market’s most stable and widely held