Losing Gains

Losing Gains

OVERVIEW   The S&P 500 index of large U.S. stocks fell 3.05%, its seventh straight week of declines. That’s the index’s longest losing streak since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.9%, its eighth-straight weekly...
Not Finishing

Not Finishing

  You’ve heard the saying: Don’t start something you can’t finish. Well, it appears that U.S. homebuilders are not heeding that advice. As our featured chart of the week above shows, the gap between the number of new home constructions started and the number of...
The Trend Tires Out

The Trend Tires Out

  When you look at a graph of the stock market, or, more specifically, an index of stocks—like a global stock market index—you notice that it tends to travel in trends over time. Sometimes it trends up, and sometimes it trends down. Coming out of the pandemic...