It was a rather uneventful week in the US Equity markets with relatively low volume as a consequence of the holidays. However, the SPX (S&P 500 Index) did manage to close the week ~0.5% higher than last week’s close despite a weak day on Friday: We are still in the middle of the uptrend channel […]

It seemed to be a week of reflection and re-evaluation in the US markets following last week’s strong positive reaction to the US elections. The US Equity markets pulled back ~2% on the week:

As investors we have to ignore the polititians and focus on the impact of policy on the markets. Obviously, Trump’s victory is seen positively by the majority of investors as being good for the markets – at least for now. Last week I suggested that if we broke above the 5800 resistance zone in the […]

It was a relatively quiet week in the US Equity markets with the SPX (S&P500 Index) pulling back a little to retest the support/resistance zone at ~5800: We are still in an uptrend but must wait to see whether we bounce off the support/resistance zone or whether we pull back further towards the bottom of […]

It was a rocky week until Friday when we saw a gap up in prices with the SPX (S&P 500 Index) closing higher on the week but still not breaking through the ~5790 resistance level: Relative to other major asset classes, US equities fared reasonably well: although Commodities was the clear winner, likely due to […]