The S&P 500, the large cap index, is widely followed as a measure of the health of the U. S. economy. The Nasdaq-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that ...

The chart below shows the S&P 500’s performance in the week of the Jackson Hole conference every year since the end of the Financial Crisis in 2009. More often than not, it’s been a positive week. Of ...

The above message seems so obvious with the data presented in the chart – so obvious to be almost irrefutable. Two little facts further strengthen its creditability. First, the above correlation is ...

The S&P 500 has gained 10% in 11 trading days, a surge that has shown up only 23 times since 1962 and is an encouraging signal.

The S&P 500 punches back above its 200-day moving average. It's never quite that simple, but it doesn't need to be much more ...