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Chart Survey of Representative Assets Types After Difficult Week
The negative action in the stocks this week is a stark contrast to the long positive stretch so far this year. Even though the week was uncomfortable, the percent of S&P 500 stocks above their...
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Relative Performance Key Stock & Bond Categories: 3mo,1yr, 5yr,13yr
This shows the performance of total US stocks (VTSMX), developed markets stocks (VDMIX), emerging market stocks (VEIEX), and investment grade corporate bonds with short-term (VFSTX) , intermediate-term...
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Markets Snapshot June 14, 2013
These 28 charts covering 46 key asset categories give a year-to-date and a 3-month view of relative dividend adjusted price performance for those categories, in each case compared to the S&P 500 as...
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Emerging Markets Index In Bear Territory Now
The MSCI emerging markets index has reached bear market territory (20% below trailing 1-year high). Of the top 10 countries in the index, only 2 are not in bear territory. The other 8 are in bear...
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Healthcare SubSector Relative Peformance, 5 yrs, 1 yr and 3 mo
Healthcare providers (IHF) and biotech (IBB) have outperformed the overall healthcare sector (IYH) over 5 years, 1 year and 3 months. Pharmaceuticals (IHE) underperformed over 1 year. Medical devices...
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Price Action vs Central Bank Speak Since Bernanke Taper Talk
Benjamin Graham once said that markets are voting machines in the short-term and weighing machines in the long-term — sentiment vs fundamentals. These days, the primary driver of sentiment tends to be...
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Growth, Growth Growth
There is a good deal of concern these days about stalled revenue growth and implications for earnings, and possibly some dividends. Consequently, it seems reasonable to pay special attention to stocks...
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Sector, Dividend and International Stocks Performance vs S&P 500
These charts plot the percentage performance of 10 sector ETFs (and 4 industry ETFs) versus the S&P 500 (represented by SPY). They also show the relative performance of key dividend ETFs,...
View ArticlePut/Call Ratio Indication of Investor Sector Expectations
Materials, Industrials, Utilities and Russell 200 high PUT/CALL ratios show investor concern about price vulnerability Financials, Staples and Russell 2000 have recently elevated PUT/CALL ratios that...
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