Aug 31, 2023
(8/31/23) Markets prepare to move into September, with weaker ADP report, downward revision to GDP, and a large gap between GDP vs GDI (Gross Domestic Income). GDP is on the rise, GDI is declining; what will revisions show? The deviation between income vs production must be rectified. Market rally continues;...
Aug 31, 2023
(8/31/23) Markets have had four days of advancing action following a 5% correction; markets are not yet back to extreme over-bought conditions. There is still some room in this rally to get the S&P back up to around 4,600. September tends to be a historically weak month...but, when August has had a reversal of July's...
Aug 30, 2023
(8/30/23) There will be some short-term economic benefit from the landfall of Hurricane Idalia in Florida--a momentary boost from damage repairs spending. Economic data has been coming in better-than-expected (because estimates had been lowered); bad news is good news again, in hopes the Fed will lower rates. Markets...
Aug 30, 2023
(8/30/23) Economic data has been "better than expected." Markets cleared the 20- and 50-DMA Tuesday, surpassing resistance to get back to previous highs. The MACD buy-signal was triggered; the market is somewhat overbought, so expect a bit of a pullback today following yesterday's 1.5% rally. However, this is still a...
Aug 29, 2023
(8/29/23) Hurricane Idalia is bearing down on Florida; will there be epic adventure stories from Florida Man? Will markets "catch-up" to economic data, or will the data begin to prove-out market optimism? Will there be a recession (still) or a soft-landing? Market rallies; more positive action to come? Challenging the 20-...