The bulls have taken the stocks up by 3.5% on the last week. There was a positive mood among the traders with decreased volatility almost to pre-February levels. A current market review suggests mostly positive events. President Donald Trump excluded Canada and Mexico from the steel and aluminum tariff plan. North Korea surprisingly wants to…
The major financial markets continue to consolidate from recent correction. A stock market is still accompanied by higher volatility due to a mixture of events happening recently. One substantial affair happened last week. Fed Chair Jay Powell assessed a strong economy, which may lead to more restrictive monetary policy this year. This will be closely…
The financial markets are entering an interesting phase of their lives this year. The stock markets hit their all-time highs while U.S. Note yields after multi-year super lows have re-emerged from dust breaking its downward trend. The 10-year U.S. note yield hit almost a four-year high last week. The rate is still in very low…
Stocks continued to go down last week, bringing every major market to the levels not seen since a beginning of December. After years of no significant pullback, the indexes finally dropped more than 5% last week, while pumping more fuel to a volatility’s engine. The “fear index” VIX has broken its downward trend line already…
Financial markets have finally taken a break from January climbing euphoria when major indexes changed their course. Last week brought several interesting events that might have played a role in recent price decreases: Wage growth Labour Department released their monthly report on Friday showing the U.S. economy added 200,000, sticking with the unemployment rate at…
Another week full of gains sent the major markets to pave their stairways to heaven. Bears are scared to emerge from their torpor like they knew it’s still cold out there. Well, not cold enough for a stock market that is burning this January – pushing the prices higher in almost vertical direction. US government…
The new year 2018 brought fruitful gains and delightful market optimism among the major indexes. The bulls are obviously in control slapping bears for almost 9 years, in 2017 the market actually hasn’t pulled back more than 3% – this happened last time 23 years ago. Well, and volatility? Yes, super low, the well-known VIX…