Big Spike In COVID-19 Cases, Labor Market Still A Problem
Record New COVID-19 Cases Unfortunately, even though it seemed like the number of new COVID-19 cases per day was starting to show slower growth, that gave off false hope as the number of new cases lurched to a new record by far on Friday, increasing to 71,787 from 61,067. The likelihood of a complete shutdown…
Stock Market Is Broken?
Small Cap Value Is Destroyed On Thursday, the stock market broke. There was nothing wrong with trading, but the relative performance of the small cap value stocks versus the major tech stocks hit extreme levels. It’s unnerving. There is little doubt this is a tech bubble. A problem with bubbles is they lead to unrelenting…
Economic Restrictions Increase Causing Small Businesses To Close
COVID-19 Stays A Problem COVID-19 seems to still be a major issue for the south and the west. There was some hope that the July 4th holiday caused the spike in cases & deaths earlier in the week. However, bad results have remained even through Thursday. Good news is the 7 day average of growth in…
Nasdaq Continues To Get More Extreme
Nasdaq Beyond Extreme- Time To Get Out The stock market had another modest rally on Wednesday; the Nasdaq outperforming was notable because of how extreme it is. It was up 1.44% as the cloud and electric vehicle stocks exploded along with the FAAMNG internet names. CLOU cloud ETF was up 2.74% which is an enormous…
Job Losses Coming In July?
Recovery Tracker Falls By now you know the economy has been weakening in the past 3 weeks. We saw more evidence of this in the Oxford Economics recovery tracker. As you can see from the chart below, the tracker has fallen in 2 of the past 3 weeks. This index fell 0.4 to 75.6 in…
EV Bubble Continues - Tesla, Arcimoto & Niu
Very Mild Tuesday Decline S&P 500 fell 1.08% on Tuesday in what could be described as an extremely mild decline. S&P 500 just tied the record for days with at least a 0.5% rally (5 days). Clearly, there is a great deal of momentum that needs to be reversed. A modest decline on Tuesday didn’t…
Stock Market Ignores Economic Slowdown For Now
COVID-19 Seems to Get Worse COVID-19 is looking even worse in the south and the west. For example, 54 Florida hospitals in 25 counties are at full intensive care unit capacity. Furthermore, on July 7th in Orange County California hospitalizations were up 35 in 2 days to 659 which is a record high. In the same…
Tesla Peak Euphoria
Chinese Bubble We are in an unusual period where the Nasdaq is up 14 of the past 16 trading days, yet the American market isn’t the most overbought equity market. China takes the cake as its 3 major indexes all have 14 day RSIs above 80. It’s very rare for the S&P 500’s RSI to…
V Shaped Recovery - Is It Real?
No More V Originally, in March and April almost everyone said a V shaped recovery was an insane concept. People were discussing a potential depression. As the strong economic data came out in May and the beginning of June, some switched to calling for a V shaped recovery and others switched to calling for a…
4 Day Winning Streak Before 4th Of July
Disappointing Thursday At first glance, it looks like the stock market had a nice day after a solid jobs report. However, the stock market’s reaction was weak because the jobs report is old news. The economy has slowed since the survey week of the BLS report. While the stock market extended its winning streak to…