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Tis the season! Last week was an appetizer for the earnings season that begins in earnest this week. Following on a positive week for markets, in which all equity indices managed to make positive technical gains on “no trade news”, traders will hopefully shift their attention to the underlying...

"No news is good news”, said the bulls as they rallied the markets yesterday leaving many calling it the “lull rally”. Many sideline traders attempted to get in on the action further extending the positive momentum on the day. The S&P500 closed at its highest level since February shrugging off the...

What lies below the surface. Markets relented some of their recent gains in yesterday’s session on, you guessed it, ongoing trade fears. Interestingly, the $200 billion tariff proposal announced yesterday, which is credited with the market’s decline, was actually really set in play weeks ago. That...

Don’t look down! Equity markets climbed yesterday, some indices scaling to some new heights while others were content to put in a solid day’s climb. Equity markets started the session poised to follow on the prior day’s rally as traders began to contemplate the positive effects of the good earnings...

Caveat emptor! Traders took a cue from Asian and European markets yesterday and started the session with an eye to the sky. With earnings season beginning this week investors put aside trade war fears to contemplate what is expected to be another positive quarter of earnings. As I have espoused on...

Sellers' exhaust! The bears were on vacation last week leaving the buyers to watch over the equity markets. All equity indices finished the week with positive moves propped up by the strong employment numbers released on Friday. This all despite the first real shots of the trade war between the US...