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…