Mar 25 2009
Dow and S&P 500: Is 2009 a Redux of 1938 and 1939? Powerful Spring through Summer Rallies. Market on Track for best Month in Decades.
The recent market rally is going down in the record books. The S&P 500 is up 21 percent in a matter of 3 weeks, which is one of the strongest short-term rallies in the books. In fact, we are on track for our best month since 1987. Yet this rally has the ominous signs [...]
Mar 8 2009
Stock Market Volatility Back Again: The S&P 500 has had 3 Major 10+ Percent Moves to Downside Already in 2009: -13.8%, -14.4%, and -11.1%. Market Volatility a Sign of Unhealthy Markets, and We’ve only gone through 2 Full Months.
The S&P 500 has lost 26% of its value in 2009 and we are only in March. This comes on the back of the S&P 500 losing 36% of its value in 2008. Market volatility is typically a sign of major uncertainty and while we did have a slightly stable period once we bounced [...]
