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Industrials Break Out as Risk Appetite Replaces Fear
by David Russell | Jun 9, 2025
Industrials are breaking out as recession worries fade.
Apple Could Be Squeezing Toward a Breakout With New Features Unveiled at WWDC
by David Russell | Jun 8, 2021
Apple has been a frustrating stock for most of the year, but now it may be squeezing toward another rally. The first pattern on today's chart is its super-tight Bollinger bandwidth, which yesterday was the narrowest since December 2019. That could suggest price is...
Money Shifts to Emerging Markets With Stocks Back Near Record Highs
by David Russell | Jun 7, 2021
Stocks inched higher again last week as investors focused on companies that will benefit from the global pandemic easing. The S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent between Friday, May 28, and Friday, June 4. Buyers focused heavily on energy, which ripped almost 7 percent....
An Early Innovator Breaks New Ground Again. Can You Guess June’s Mystery Stock?
by David Russell | Jun 4, 2021
Innovation can be an essential element of success in the stock market. Now one of the earliest major disruptors could be breaking new ground again. This month’s mystery stock traces its origins to the early-20th century, when automobiles were expensive and hard to...
Technical Alert: Death Cross in Netflix
by David Russell | Jun 3, 2021
The economy is reopening. People are going back to work. It's great news for a lot of stocks, but Netflix isn't one of them. Today, the streaming-video giant's 50-day simple moving average (SMA) closed at $513.97, or $0.53 below its 200-day SMA. That "death cross" may...
Ethereum Shakes Off Bitcoin Crash as Investors Focus on Positives in July
by David Russell | Jun 3, 2021
Cryptocurrencies fell last month as investors dumped Bitcoin. But now attention could be shifting to Ethereum as a greener alternative. The No. 2 digital asset by market capitalization has already regained the levels where it began May. It's also emphasizing a key...
Reopening Stocks Surge Back as the Post-Covid Summer Begins
by David Russell | Jun 2, 2021
The reopening trade is surging back as the summer vacation season begins and coronavirus infections plummet. Investors piled into stocks like energy, cruise lines and casinos on Tuesday. Those stand to gain from increased travel and economic activity as social...
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Tech Stocks Break the Downtrend Despite a Hawkish Fed. Are the Bears Losing Control?
by David Russell | Mar 21, 2022
Stocks just had their biggest rally in over a year as a broad cloud of bearishness began to lift, despite an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 rose 6.2 percent between Friday, March, 11, and Friday, March 18. The Nasdaq-100 jumped 8.4 and the Dow...





