After the recent slog higher that took the Dow above the psychologically significant 18,000 level last week, stocks finally hit some rough terrain that they couldn’t push through. A confluence of negatives weighed on equities this week, including an anemic Q1 GDP print that showed the U.S. economy growing at just 0.5%. That lower-than-expected growth […]

The still-stinging death of pop music icon Prince has made the world a sadder place. The singer/songwriter, master guitarist, actor and bonafide musical genius touched millions of people with his life’s work. Unfortunately, Prince won’t have a say in what happens to the fruit of his life’s work now that he has passed. Why? Because

We have seen a tremendous run in oil and, as such, our USO call option has enjoyed some decent gains. As the market stumbles a bit and we enter a seasonally difficult time for both equities and oil, we believe it would be prudent to break apart our United States Oil (NYSE:USO) put and call trade […]

We realize this week’s alert is coming to you a little later than usual but we wanted to wait for the latest message from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues at the U.S. central bank. Coming into this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, we believed the Fed had limited time to […]

Stocks largely plodded forward this week, with the Dow closing above 18,000, and logging a weekly gain of 0.59%. The S&P 500 had a similar showing, with the broad measure of the domestic equity market finishing the week with a gain of 0.52%. The NASDAQ Composite did not follow suit, as it closed the week […]

Emerging markets are in a bull market. That’s not something we’ve been able to say for much of the past several years. In fact, it was quite the opposite story last year, when emerging market stocks had collapsed on a combination of a lower U.S. dollar, plunging commodity prices and fears of a China-led global

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Who would have thought two months ago that the S&P 500 would be less than 2% away from an all-time high? Since then the market has moved up 16% in virtually a straight line. That situation has caused market participants to scramble and reposition their books by covering short positions and going long in equities. Quarterly […]

Stocks enjoyed another strong week, as the equity grind up to new, 2016 highs continues. The gains in stocks this week, and indeed for most of the past eight weeks, have been a decidedly positive trend for the markets. Though we still remain about 2.5% away from the all-time high on the benchmark S&P 500 […]

When it comes to investing in the financial markets, you want to have the tailwinds at your back. Moreover, you want to avoid any headwinds, as they can stunt your performance and keep you from reaching your investment objectives. One segment of the market that’s gone from powerful headwinds to gale-force tailwinds is emerging markets.