by Joel Charalambakis | Nov 20, 2015 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Despite continuing concerns about the vibrancy of the retail sector stocks posted a strong week, led by the Consumer Discretionary sector. Emerging markets are posed to record their first acceleration in growth in 2016 since 2010 according to a new...
by Joel Charalambakis | Nov 15, 2015 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks delivered one of their worst weeks since August, when China’s devaluation and macro concerns sparked volatility. Every sector, save for Utilities, saw a sharp downturn as poor retail sales and earning reports combined with increased tightening...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 10, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
It is an indisputable fact that the last ten months have been characterized by high volatility. The market breadth (defined as the number of advancing over declining stocks) has turned below one (implying that more stocks declined than advanced) several times during...
by Joel Charalambakis | Oct 30, 2015 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks ended October posting some of their best monthly gains in years. 76% of reporting firms have surpassed their earnings expectations thus far in Q3 although sales figures continue to be held back by the strong dollar. It seems companies are on their...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 25, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
As previously noted from this page, I believe that we are entering into a period where the forces of market risk, volatility, liquidity, and credit risk encompass a cycle whose velocity may change much more frequently than during any other period in financial history....
by Joel Charalambakis | Oct 17, 2015 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks in the U.S. posted another week of gains and have largely recovered from their period of volatility in August. With the Fed Funds Futures and Bond Markets pricing zero rates into 2016 stocks may have more room to run this year. While markets in...