Central Banks Have Done an Excellent Job of Back-Stopping Global Risk Appetite
The chart below plots the average path that U.S. secular bear markets (1901-1921; 1929-1942; 1966-1982) have taken through history and compares it to the path the current (presumed) secular bear of 2000-2012. The path of the current had plotted nearly…
Working Thesis for 2013
Let’s just get this out of the way right up front – I was completely,unequivocally wrong to pivot to the “not-bullish / mildly bearish” camp late last week. I think it’s quite clear that the combination of Monday’s ~25 pt…
Russell 2000 Faces Resistance on a Relative Basis & Could Under-Perform for Years
Dating back to June of this year we have been suggesting that the potential for a longer-term reversal in the USD could lead to small-caps sustainably under-performing the broader market. We continue to believe this today. Even if the USD…
SPX Break-out Appears Confirmed
Last week we had a post suggesting the SPX was breaking out in a big way on Wednesday the 12th. We noted at the time that the move higher would need to include the market holding there through the end…
Airlines Continue to Out-Perform the Broader Market but is the Pace Set to Accelerate?
The chart below plots the ratio of the SPX vs. FAA (airline ETF). Note that this week the ratio is breaking below support line (1) and seemingly falling back into a channel whose bottom is defined by line (2). If…
Analog Update: You Can’t Stop this Bull, You can Only Hope to Contain it
Ridiculous title aside (which is a vague reference to the phrase I heard over and over again listening to commentators do play-by-play for the greatest athlete of all time growing up as a kid), could you ask for a better road…...
Big Break-Out in the SPX
Self-explanatory below – big break-out in SPX on the Fed news today taking out resistance that’s been in place since mid September per line (1). So long as these gains hold through today/end of week, we’d believe this break-out portends…
Airlines Have Greatly Out-Performed the SPX Since late May; More Upside to Come?
Our first post on the airlines and their potential for out-performance moving forward dates back to May 30 in this post. Since that time, when global risk assets in general were near their corrective summer lows, the S&P 500 Airlines…
Euro Financials Have Beat the SPX by 30% Since Summer, Now What?
The chart below plots the ratio of the DJ Euro Financials Index vs. SPX This ratio has risen by ~30% since this summer after bottoming along line (3). For some background on why Euro-centric has out-performed U.S.-centric in recent months,…...
Getting Granular: Equities Cheap vs. Credit?
We plot the path HYG & JNK have traveled against SPY over the past year in the chart below. They have all tended to track together over the past year. Just as equities appeared expensive vs. credit in 2Q12 in front of…