Stocks got off to a red-hot start to the week, with the Nasdaq cruising to record highs on Monday, and while the gloom-and-doom set have plenty of reason to believe it won’t last, Economic Cycle Research Institute co-founder Lakshman Achuthan doesn’t see it that way. At least that’s what his …
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There’s a pretty big gulf between how professional investors manage money and the bets made by average people. Like many things, it may have been amplified by the upside-down nature of markets and the economy in the wake of the coronavirus shock — or not. The chart above shows the …
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It’s hard out there for a millennial. In fact, the Washington Post, citing a series of economic haymakers and the struggles that come with them, calls the group born between 1981 and 1996 “the unluckiest generation in U.S. history.” Yes, even unluckier than members of the “Lost Generation,” who reached …
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Tom McClellan, market technician and publisher of the McClellan Market Report, says investors are fleeing one of the most popular exchange-traded funds on Wall Street, even as stocks rally off their March lows. The State Street-sponsored SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, +1.65%, which offers investors exposure to S&P 500 …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.99% ended a four-week stretch Friday with a total return approaching 30%, bouncing back from its worst first-quarter performance in history. As the worst pandemic in a century continues to take its toll on the global economy, investors, with no clear end in sight, …
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The stock market broke new ground last week in terms of the breakneck speed of its selloff, with the S&P 500 SPX, -2.34% dropping 10% from its record high in a mere six days, faster than any other time in history. Must be some hot bargains out there, with stocks …
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Low unemployment rates, rising wage growth, a relentless bull market — by many measures, the good times are rolling. Just ask President Trump, who is glad to take credit for “the greatest economy in our nation’s history.” But there is an ugly side to this boom that you obviously won’t …
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