There’s been some slowing in rail traffic data in recent weeks though the pace of growth remains positive. This week’s reading came in at 1.4% year over year which brings [ … ]
Category: Chart Of The Day
(Just Charts)
A Few Good Days….
Nice chart here from Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Surveillance showing the S&P 500’s returns in total compared to missing the 3 and 5 best days of each year. As you [ … ]
Small Investors Reach for Cash in Uncertain Environment
Small investors moved more towards cash in March according to the AAII’s latest asset allocation survey results. Equity and fixed income allocations were slightly down as small investors appear to [ … ]
A Look Ahead to Q1 GDP
Today’s personal income data caused a number of firms to upgrade their estimates for Q1 GDP. Here is a smattering of estimates (some old, some new) for Q1: Consensus: 2.8% [ … ]
Chart of the Day: Global Post-Crisis Retracement Levels
Just a bit of big picture perspective here courtesy of Chart of the Day. It shows various market retracements in the post-crisis period: “For some perspective on the post-financial crisis [ … ]
Durable Goods Orders Still Tracking Equities Closely
This morning’s durable goods figures were solid again though benefitting to a large degree from new orders at Boeing. Over all, the figures look decent though. The latest reading was [ … ]
Visualizing the Euro Area’s “Poverty Effect”
If rising stocks in the USA are a “wealth effect” then I guess we can call the Cypriot stock market’s 98% collapse a “poverty effect”, right? Unfortunately, they’re not [ … ]
Rail Traffic Slows, Remains Solid Year-to-Date
Weekly rail traffic trends showed some signs of slowing this week, but remain solid when taken in larger context. This week’s intermodal reading of 0.7% was the weakest reading since [ … ]
Where Did All the Bears Go?
That’s what Schaeffers Investment Research is asking after a huge run in the market in recent months. Despite persistent chatter that everyone is expecting a market decline (eventually), the data [ … ]