Eric Kuby, Chief Investment Officer of North Star Investment Management, writes a weekly commentary on market and economic trends. Here is a sampling of recent commentary:
Bridge Over Troubled Markets
Consumer Sentiment Crash It was no surprise to anyone watching the news over the last month that the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for May nosedived back to the lowest levels in eight-years, and approached the nadir reached in the financial crisis and in the early 1980s. U.S [...]
Bothersome Losing Streak
Dark Clouds Descend The stock market’s losing streak continued into May, as the Dow Jones Average lost 0.2%, its sixth straight declining week, while the S&P 500 also fell 0.2%. Once again, the losses were heavier in the Nasdaq Composite and the Russell 2000, which slid 1.5% and 1.3%, [...]
Very Cloudy With a Chance of a Silver Lining
FAANG in Flux For the second week in a row, the market was slightly ahead through the Thursday afternoon coffee break only to nosedive into the weekend. By the closing bell on Friday, the S&P 500 had shed 3.27%, the Nasdaq was down 3.93%, and the Russell 2000 lost [...]
Broken Record
Technical Turnaround All was quiet on the Wall Street front until mid-morning Thursday when suddenly a nasty selling assault was unleashed in all the equity markets. The S&P 500 decline from Thursday’s high to Friday’s close was a brutal 4.7%, resulting in a loss of 3.1% for the week. [...]
Q1 2022 Market Update
During the period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned -4.57%, the S&P 500 returned -4.95%, the Russell 2000 returned -7.80% and the Nasdaq 100 returned -9.08%. The U.S. 10Y Treasury Yield ended the quarter at 2.338%. For the first time in two years, the pandemic was not the primary factor [...]
Peak Pessimism
A Million Reasons In her 2016 hit ‘Million Reasons,’ Lady Gaga sings: “I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away But, baby, I just need one good one to stay.” That one line captures how easy it is to find recent data points that support pessimism, and yet [...]
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