Lowering Guidance To 0 Hikes In 2019 - Fed Matches Expectations

Lowering Guidance - Fed Does Exactly What’s Expected Fed did exactly what I expected. It didn’t raise rates, lowered guidance to no hikes this year, and gave clarification on the balance sheet unwind. Fed plans to shrink the unwind from $30 billion per month to $15 billion from May to September. Then end the unwind…

Fed Rocks Interest Rate Markets

The Fed stuns markets by announcing no rate increases in 2019 citing concerns over the global slowdown they are seeing specifically in Europe and China. They also halted the unwinding of their balance sheet at $4 trillion. To put this reversal in context it was only 4 months ago that Fed predicted 3 rates hikes…

FedEx Causes Investors To Worry About The Global Economy

Volatile Action On Tuesday Before we get into Fedex, let's review the markets. S&P 500 fell just one basis point on Tuesday, but there were wild swings during the trading session as investors prepared their portfolios for the Fed meeting on Wednesday. From the peak at 12:15pm to the trough at 3:45pm, stocks fell 0.92%.…

India To Emerge As Global Growth Leader

India - Leaders Of The Economy The table below shows Oxford Economics’ estimates of the 10 year annual growth rates of the top 10 emerging market economies. India is projected to surpass China’s population in 2024. It will be the driver of global economic growth that China was in the past 10 years. Emerging markets…

Key Levels in Play for the Monsters of Tech

All but one of our "Monsters of Tech Stocks" is into a key resistance target and we'll adjust our trades depending on the departure (movement away from) this level into this week and next.  What are these levels and what's the one outlier stock that's actually into a key support level?  Find out as Corey…

Record Closing High - S&P 500 Just 3.34% From It

Record Closing High - Stocks Close In On Record S&P 500 increased 0.37% on Monday which means it is just 3.34% off its record high. The S&P 500 is up 1.74% in March and 13.01% year to date. It is on pace to have its best first quarter since 1998.  Also, it is almost up…

Consumer Sentiment Gives Off Potential Recessionary Signal

Consumer Sentiment - Number Of IPOs Has Cratered Consumer Sentiment - The number of IPOs has fallen sharply since the mid to late 1990s when internet firms were going public quickly. Public investors had access to a plethora of start ups which weren’t profitable. These were the Venture Capital opportunities of today.  While the 1990s…

Watch These Market Movers

Stocks drift higher today as the market waits for the FOMC meeting this week. There are several key stocks and sectors to watch that will be moving the entire stock market this week. Watch this video newsletter to find out where the next opportunity is...

Apple To Launch News & Streaming Service March 25th

Apple - S&P 500 Breaks Out Of Range Before getting into Apple, let's review the market. S&P 500 increased 14 points to 2,822.48 on Friday. That is higher than the previous 4 attempts at hitting the September record high. The market has broken through that resistance and is now focused on the record high. S&P…

Leading Index Perks Up Signaling Slowdown End Is Near

Leading Index - Weekly Index’ Growth Rate Improves Substantially Before I review the latest economic reports, let’s look at the big jump in the ECRI leading index’s growth rate. It is one of the most important factors in my analysis of the economy.  As you can see from the chart below, the yearly growth rate…