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 What happened in the housing market in April, 2025? Macro-economic headlines and conditions dominated the environment with tariff pressures and chaos at the center. The economic uncertainty cascading from the burden of tariff policy permeated results from homebuilder and consumer sentiment, housing starts, and existing home sales. New home sales … Read more
Housing Market Intro and Summary What happened in the housing market in March, 2025? The bear market deepened for housing related stocks as they fell off the edge of a deeper malaise. Growing economic warfare between the U.S. and the world and the resulting chaos is adding to housing woes along with the usual culprit … Read more
Housing Market Intro and Summary What happened in the housing market in February, 2025? The bear market that scarred the landscape for builders returned. After January’s bear market, relief, the bear market is back and more deeply entrenched. The stocks and the housing data are even on the edge of a deeper malaise. On-going declines … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The stock market looked ready to follow through on leaving its troubles behind. The S&P 500 even made a new all-time high. Everything seemed to fall apart on Friday. The final release of consumer expectations as measured by the University Michigan confirmed earlier preliminary numbers: inflation expectations soared and consumer sentiment tanked. … Read more
Stock Market Commentary The week opened with market breadth dropping to within five percentage points of the oversold threshold. This was the closest encounter with oversold since late October, 2023. The stock market never looked back from there. A favorable mid-week inflation report helped propel the stock market with the assistance of declining long-term bond … Read more