It’s still a bear market, according to the relative strength ranking of the US stock market sector. This is because the sectors that generally do best at the end of bear markets have been lagging lately. Conversely, sectors that usually do the worst at the end of bear markets have outperformed. This is not what …
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Vanguard, the world’s second-largest mutual fund and exchange-traded fund manager, is pulling out of a major financial industry alliance designed to fight climate change, the company announced on Wednesday. Vanguard, in a statement, said it would monitor its progress independently of the alliance, in an effort to provide “clarity” to its investors. Some environmental groups …
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Investors are trying to read the tea leaves on a choppy U.S. stock market to gauge whether its recent rise can continue after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sparked bullish sentiment in late November by indicating that his aggressive stock hikes interest rates could slow. “Stock market management is telling you that the economy is …
The number of layoffs in the tech sector this year is approaching the annual levels seen during the Great Recession, but is far from dot-com-bust territory. As tech companies grapple with falling stock prices, inflation, rising interest rates and a possible recession, they have announced more than 60,000 job cuts this year, with indications such …
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We do not yet know if the recent rally triggers a new bull market in equities. But here’s a sure bet: once the new bull market is here, entirely different groups will lead. It will be with the old – think of the FAANGs – and with the new. To find out which new sectors …
What last week’s consumer prices and then Tuesday’s producer price index data both show is that the market was pricing in more bad news on the inflation front than of relief, and therefore large short cover rallies when the data is weaker than expected. SocGen This graph from Societe Generale clearly shows that the biggest …
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