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Manic Monday!! A song written by Prince and popularized by The Bangles also happens to be the term that best describes yesterday’s equity markets. Equity markets followed on Friday’s weakness sold off and closed near session lows as they were unable to hold early gains. Fears of contagion from...

Higher elevations and steeper slopes? Equity markets closed slightly higher yesterday well off of their morning lows in a relatively calm trading session. The S&P gained the most ground yesterday as the other indices did their best to maintain their neutral to constructive positions. Though the...

In the thick of it. Equity markets took a pause in the latter half of last week as indices posted a mixed close on Friday. Traders weathered a raft of corporate earnings, political upheaval, unheard of levels of jawboning, and executive tweets posting some important closes in the first half of the...

Cue the rhetoric - start jawboning in 3, 2, 1… The S&P500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ took a well-deserved breather yesterday while the small-cap RUSSELL 2000 set its sights on recent highs. The S&P500 still managed to close above the important 2800 level keeping the chart constructive as the index...

The running of the honey badgers! The honey badger is also known as ratel and is notorious for its fierce, or ferocious (as Wikipedia labels it) defensive abilities. Though the honey badger only exists in Africa, Asia, and on the Indian sub continent, it is well known by the internet generation,...

“You’re going to the moon…” FANGS! Technology and the FANGS (except for temporary bad dog Netflix) helped to rocket the S&P500 and NASDAQ 100 to impressive heights in yesterday's session. Here’s how it all went down. Industrial Production was up a tad more than expected: not big news. The President...

The players all showed up and the game was never played. Markets ignored most of the potential stimuli yesterday to do… well not much at all. Yesterday’s session began with a Retail Sales number, which was quite possibly the only major economic number of the week, coming in right around...