Showing posts with label economic pull back. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic pull back. Show all posts

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Is the Market Ready to Resume it's Bullish Ways?

Equity market closed mostly down today, but finished the the day with a strong push.  Have the past few days been strictly a result of global political turmoil, or was that just an excuse for a market correction?  It appears to have been some of both.  Investors could not look past the trouble in Libya, like they did Egypt.  The situation in Libya is terrible, but it presented investors with an opportunity to harvest some profits from the run up in equity markets over the past 6 months.  A month from now will these negative sessions be viewed as entirely news driven, or will this be considered a standard market correction that was sparked by the news?  The most likely scenario will be markets continuing to grow like they have so far in 2011 with a few of these news driven corrections.  This market will continue to go higher and tomorrow should be a great buying opportunity for those who need to boost their equity position.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

When will this Bull get tired?

All of the major US stock indices are up at least 5% in 2011, but the most common theory on Wall Street is that a mid-major pull back will take place soon.  The market would be the first to disagree.  Fans of the pull-back always get excited following a bullish day because they are expecting the sell of to start the next day.  So far they have been wrong every time.

This market continues to prove to be incredibly resilient.  The market was none to concerned with the crisis in Egypt, except how to profit off of it, and it has not been to interested in the bad economic numbers.  The markets blatant disregard for bad news will more that likely lead to at least a small pull back at some point in the near future.