Saturday, March 15, 2014

US Stock Market – More Bubble Evidence

Below we show a few stock market related charts that indicate that the recent rebound may well have been part and parcel of at least some sort of corrective period, in spite of several indexes attaining new highs. Note here that we don’t care why the market reportedly fell on Thursday. No-one knows for sure whether the reasons cited in the financial press were really the culprit (allegedly, a worsening of the  Russian/Ukrainian situation was to blame; but very often the excuse doesn’t really matter. After all, the Ukraine situation was completely ignored so far).
First, a chart of the DJIA and the SPX for comparison purposes. The interesting thing is that the two measures have diverged at the most recent peak. Note in this context that divergences in the performance of various indexes have been increasing since the beginning of the year. That is usually a negative sign.
The DJIA turned back down before reaching a new high, contrary to the SPX, which did (most other popular indexes also reached new highs, but performance divergences have opened up further between all of them) 
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