What signals or clues are coming from the broader Sector Rotation Model as we see it in July 2011? Let’s take a look, starting with the data Year to Date: Consistent from our prior update… Read More

Growing up, I spent most of the summer at the neighborhood tennis and swim club. July 4th was a special day and featured the club’s summer tennis tournament, a cookout and fresh watermelon giveaway. There were also pool games. For me, the highlight of the day was what I called… Read More

The market has been a mess recently… Thumbing through the financial pages of any newspaper, I could pick out a half-dozen conflicting, convoluted, or crazy market predictions for the second half of 2011. And none of it is doing… Read More

On Monday, European stock markets plummeted. Italy, the new poster child of the euro crisis, saw its benchmark stock index fall to its lowest level in two years.   It’s the latest… Read More

We’ve all been hearing conflicting analysis as to whether the market will “certainly” be going up or down in the near future, but the reality is that the market is caught in a “year to date” tug-of-war between buyers and sellers which… Read More

After surging for nearly two years, the stock market appears to have reached a plateau. Every time the S&P 500 makes a move to surpass its two-year high of 1,370, it falters anew. Whether it can finally breach that mark and move… Read More

This week, we take our euro “mythbusting” to a new level. After all, the euro just hit a new level…   As we noted last month, one of the big myths in the marketplace is that despite the huge government debt problems plaguing Europe right now, its multi-nation… Read More

In 1999, James Glassman and Kevin Hassett grabbed headlines with their book Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. Their timing was impeccably bad. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked later that year at… Read More

The pre Fourth of July holiday week saw stocks rally off key support. The five session gains in excess of 5% for the major stock indexes marked the biggest weekly advance in two years. The bottoming potential at March lows reversed stocks with conviction. Read More

If you’ve been following the US Dollar Index over the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed a clean triangle-style consolidation phase setting up. Let’s take a look at the recent pause,… Read More

If you’ve been following the US Dollar Index over the last few weeks, you’ve probably noticed a clean triangle-style consolidation phase setting up. Let’s take a look at the recent pause,… Read More