Showing posts with label SPX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SPX. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2026

Everything sold off today

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Stocks were down across the board, with the NASD 100 notably down 4.77%. The equal weight S&P 500 is down 0.52% month to date. The Tech ...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Gold and silver are still up 5+% year to date

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 SPX +10.52% ytd WTI +53.11% ytd   Meanwhile in April:  Hamburger +18.9% yoy Coffee +29.0% yoy Unleaded regular gasoline +28.0% yoy Electric...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-4) was for the ban on insider stock trading in Congress before he was against it

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 My favorite part about his new position is that if we don't allow our representatives to make money somehow, we'll stop attracting ...

Silver is still up 6.14% year to date, gold 5.09% even as energy prices march higher

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 But SPX is up 8.02% ytd. WTI is up 84.01% ytd. VGENX is up 20.88% ytd.   Investment grade corporate securities:   VWESX is down 1.54% ytd. ...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Silver is up 12.24% ytd, gold is up 9.15% ytd

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 SPX: +7.88% ytd WTI:  +66.2% ytd
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Ronald Reagan's faith in the American people's better judgment about how to spend their own money was . . . misplaced

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"Well, our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big taxspenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know be...
Monday, May 4, 2026

Sleepwalking into a big recession: SPX hits new all-time intraday high 7230.12 on May 1 after oil jumps 78% year to date

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  ‘Misplaced euphoria’: Markets are sleepwalking into a recession amid Iran war oil price shock Global economies could be “sleepwalking” int...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Gold is up 6.82% year to date, silver is up 5.29%

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 SPX is up 5.42% ytd WTI is up about 78% ytd 
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Jerome Powell Fed Chair era draws to a close effective May 15, but Powell could remain a Fed governor until his term ends in January 2028

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Fed holds rates steady but with highest level of dissent since 1992 ... In what may have been Chair Jerome Powell ’s final meeting at the h...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Year to date gold and silver are beating the S&P 500

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Buffett Indicator in the news

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 Wall Street on red alert as Warren Buffett’s favorite stock market gauge hits the worst reading EVER ...  The so-called Buffett indicator ...
Monday, April 20, 2026

SPX rallied 10% after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but ended the year down 19%

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SPX is up almost 12% since March 30th.   Investors are misreading news about the Iran war, analysts say as markets whipsaw ... The resumptio...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Barking dogs bark, market cheerleaders cheer

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  S&P 500 marches higher one day after benchmark wipes out Iran war losses
Monday, March 23, 2026

The Iranian parliament Speaker says Trump is lying, uttering fake news, there have been no negotiations lol

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Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s Iran post Iran Media Denies Direct Talks After US Holds Off Energy Strikes... ...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

SPX/GDP, then vs. now

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SPX(average annual)/GDP(trillions of dollars), then vs. now 1938: 131 1942: 52 1964/1965: 118  1982: 35 2000: 139  2009: 65 2019: 135  2025:...
Monday, March 2, 2026

Ruh-roh, sign of a top

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  More low- and middle-income Americans are investing, report finds. Here’s why   Since 2020, the number of low- and moderate-income investo...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

SPX return since August 2000 vs. Jan 1871-Jul 1982

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  Aug 2000-Jan 2026: 8.19% pa / 5.53% real Jan 1871-Jul 1982: 8.15% pa / 6.18% real Jul 1982-Aug 2000: 18.99% pa / 15.28% real 

Current GDP supports SPX at mean value 2550

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 31.49007 x 81
Sunday, February 22, 2026

For WHAT?

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  Congress Could Get Healthy Pay Raise... ...  In private, many members suggest they deserve higher pay ...              Meanwhile the story...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The case for stock market manipulation in the case of the proposed tariff penalties over Greenland is very weak

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The tariff idea was floated before lunch on Friday, Jan 16. Stocks closed down just 4-points that day. The scale of the subsequent market re...