ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
Housing Market Intro and Summary In my previous housing market update, I described the increasing pressure on the housing market. The housing data continued to worsen through mid-October, however housing-related stocks launched a strong rally. Rate relief from declining mortgage rates, accompanied by a rally in the bond market, provided a platform for a countertrend … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary I have been making the case for months that the AI trade is topping. This last week’s price action added yet more confirmation. While the NASDAQ dropped 2% for the week, nine of the eleven S&P 500 sectors finished higher, led by healthcare, materials, and utilities. That … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary The stock market finds itself in a place I did not fully anticipate, even as recently as my last market check-in. Market breadth is rebounding as I suspected it might, and the recovery increasingly looks like a bottoming process. Yet the recovery is leaving behind the once-dominant … Read more
Do you have a 401(k)? Well there’s a “good chance” the money is invested in AI stocks. This introduction was the empty warning forming the premise of a Marketplace story describing the AI-driven risks in the average investment portfolio. The accompanying interview with Boston College law professor Patricia McCoy, who studies financial regulation and consumer … Read more
The Market Breadth Summary The Stock Market Summary Damage from the AI trade drove the NASDAQ to its worst weekly decline since June. A convergence of events and headlines has brought the market to another critical juncture, this time in the last of the stock market’s most dangerous months of the year. The renewed tech … Read more