Market Radar 05. June 2023 Market Are stock market traders now switching from the SPY ETF to the RSP ETF? The ETF for the S&P 500 (SPY) hit a new 52-week high at the close of the day on Friday. This means that the previously valid annual high of mid-August 2022 was overcome for the… Continue reading Marketradar 05. June 2023
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Marketradar 22. May 2023
Market Radar 22. May 2023 Market The U.S. dollar moves the markets The strengthening of the US dollar has revealed five tendencies in the past trading week that could now determine the direction of the markets for the coming weeks: Institutional investors finally preferred stocks quoted in U.S. dollars to stocks quoted in other currencies… Continue reading Marketradar 22. May 2023
Marketradar 15. May 2023
Market Radar 15. May 2023 Market Is the U.S. dollar now causing the price of equities to slide? IPO stocks are relatively strong across the marketFor the ETF Renaissance IPO (IPO), we gave the day stamp “Buy or top-up” in last Monday’s column. Anyone who had entered Wall Street at $28.25 on Monday would have… Continue reading Marketradar 15. May 2023
Marketradar 08. May 2023
Market Radar 8. May 2023 Market Will the S&P 500 continue to move sideways after a breakout? The S&P 500 has been moving in a relatively narrow sideways range between 4160 and 4040 points since March 31, which is about 3% of the index value. Both the upper and lower bounds of this range have… Continue reading Marketradar 08. May 2023
Marketradar 24. April 2023
Market Radar 24. April 2023 Market Hedge fund managers are in a “betting bind”. In March, hedge funds significantly expanded their short positioning in U.S. equities: short sales of over $40 billion were set up, so that the short selling ratio of these institutional professionals is currently likely to be around one trillion USD. This… Continue reading Marketradar 24. April 2023
Marketradar 10. April 2023
Market Radar 10. April 2023 Market Easter baskets and marshmallows Labor market data without big surprises, or maybe?New US jobs data were released on Good Friday. Outside of agriculture, 236,000 net and seasonally adjusted new jobs were created, slightly exceeding expectations of 230,000 new jobs.The unemployment rate fell to 3.5% in March from 3.6% in… Continue reading Marketradar 10. April 2023
Marketradar 03. April 2023
Market Radar 03. April 2023 Market Successful stock market participants looked to the future in the first quarter The ETF on the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) achieved a record result in the first quarter of 2023: it rose by a whopping 20.52%. The equally-weighted variant for the Nasdaq 100 (QQQE) rose by only 13.66% in the… Continue reading Marketradar 03. April 2023
Marketradar 27. March 2023
Market Radar 27. March 2023 Market Is Asia now running away from Europe, while the S&P 500 is crawling sideways? Since mid-August 2022, the ETF on the S&P 500 (SPY) has been moving in a sideways range between 420 and 360 US dollars. Last Friday, it closed at $395.75, slightly above the middle of this… Continue reading Marketradar 27. March 2023
Marketradar 23. March 2023
Market Radar 23. March 2023 Market Short-sell office and commercial real estate?Jerome Powell seems a bit perplexed After yesterday’s Fed meeting, we’re not much smarter than we were before the Fed meeting.Surprises were not only missing – some market participants are now wondering what kind of surprises we have been waiting for. Not only the… Continue reading Marketradar 23. March 2023
Marketradar 13. March 2023
Market Radar 13. March 2023 Market Will we soon see new highs in bonds and new lows in equities? On Friday, we saw significant increases in the price of US Treasuries on Wall Street.The ETF for US government bonds with maturities of one to three years (SHY) gained 0.5% on Friday. Considering that this ETF… Continue reading Marketradar 13. March 2023