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“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...

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...