What’s bothering the bond market? The 10-year Treasury yield (blue line) has shot up to levels last seen just before the GFC. The surge in yields has occurred just as investors are seeing better news on inflation. At the same time, core PCE (red line) has been falling. Shouldn’t that be good news for the...
Mid-week market update: You know things are bad when 1987 parallels come out of the woodwork. The key difference is the Fed and the USD. In 1987, the Fed implemented a series of inter-meeting rate hikes to support the USD. The USD needs no support today. During these times of market stress, it’s...
Preface: Explaining our market timing models We maintain several market timing models, each with differing time horizons. The "Ultimate Market Timing Model" is a long-term market timing model based on the research outlined in our post, Building the ultimate market timing model. This model tends to generate only a handful of signals each decade. The Trend Asset...
I highlighted a long-term buy signal in late July and early August when the monthly MACD of the NYSE Composite turned positive (see On the verge of a long-term buy signal and Trust (the bull), but verify (there’s no recession)). Historically, such buy signals have resolved in a bullish fashion with no bearish episodes and...
Mid-week market update: On the weekend, I stated that my base case was the S&P 500 decline would stop at August low support of 4350, but there was a 25% chance that it would test the next trend line support at roughly 4200, or the 200 dma. Now that we are nearing that level, what’s...
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