The week ahead is jampacked with coincident and leading economic indicators. The most up-to-the-minute ones will be May 12 mortgage applications (Wed)…
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said on Monday, May 1 that the United States could run out of money to pay its…
The stock market has been climbing since mid-October even though pessimism has prevailed among economists and stock market strategists. Today, we examine…
SLOOS was on the loose today, yet stock prices continued to snooze. The Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey was…
To support their pessimistic outlook, bearish prognosticators tend to focus on two charts. The first one shows the S&P 500…
The bulls and the bears continue their tug of war with the S&P 500 fluctuating around 4000 since last summer…
The S&P 500 rallied on Friday following yet another stronger-than-expected employment report. In his press conference on Wednesday, May 3,…
Another interesting week ahead. On Monday, the Fed will release the latest Senior Loan Officers Opinion Survey (SLOOS). It is likely to…
The S&P 500 rallied along with regional bank stocks today. It found support yesterday at its 50-day moving average. Shares…
Our Boom-Bust Barometer (BBB) fell into an unprecedented abyss during the pandemic lockdown in early 2020 (chart). Our BBB is the ratio…
The current consensus in the financial markets seems to be that the FOMC is done hiking the federal funds rate (FFR) after…
The rolling recession continues to roll through the economy, but will the banking crisis cause it to turn into an economy-wide recession?…
