Dec 4, 2015
It’s always nice to end the week on a good note with a gain of close to 2% in the S&P 500, even if that 2% gain was still only barely enough to push the index into the black. In what was, by any standards, a volatile week for the equity market, the S&P 500 was whipped around by central bank jawboning and actions that pushed currencies and various asset classes around like a rag doll. After starting off the week with a relatively mild decline of 0.46%, the S&P 500 rallied 1.07% on Tuesday and then gave back all of those gains on Wednesday. On Thursday, ECB President Mario Draghi unveiled additional stimulus measures in the form of lower rates and added QE, but after a big buildup into the event, investors found themselves completely underwhelmed and sold anything they could get their hands on. At the end of the day, the S&P 500 was down 1.44% with a very important jobs report on deck for Friday. Friday’s jobs report came in better than expected, but with a December rate hike already fully priced into the markets, investors reacted positively sending the S&P 500 up 2% for the day and just over one point on the week. You wouldn’t think it, but with four straight daily moves of 1%+ up or down, the S&P 500 hasn’t seen this much day to day volatility since the August lows.
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Nov 20, 2015
After a brutal week last week, stocks bounced back sharply this week both here in the U.S. and abroad. Last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris occurred just after the market closed on Friday, leaving many traders expecting declines when they got to their desks on Monday morning. But while futures traded lower heading into the trading day on Monday, the declines were short-lived. In fact, the S&P 500 ended up gaining 1.5% on Monday, and another big gain of 1.6% on Wednesday was enough to leave the market up more than 3.3% on the week.
Below is a snapshot of this week’s performance across the asset class spectrum using key ETFs traded on U.S. exchanges. Consumer Discretionary and Technology posted the biggest gains out of the ten sectors here in the U.S., while Brazil (EWZ) and Russia (RSX) gained the most of any country ETFs highlighted at 9%+. The only area of weakness this week was in commodities, where oil, natural gas, gold and silver all traded lower. For the year now, the commodities ETF (DBC) is down 23%.
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Nov 4, 2015
Last year we published the first edition of the Bespoke Market Calendar — a printed calendar booklet for traders and investors to keep at their desks and use throughout the year to stay on top of everything going on in financial markets. We got amazing feedback from those that purchased our 2014/2015 calendar, and the requests for our 2015/2016 calendar have been rolling in.
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