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It’s time to stop beating around the bush. The key topic is inflation and how much damage the Fed will create in the US economy to tame this economic beast. The more damage...the more downside for the stock market (SPY). 40 year investment veteran, Steve Reitmeister, shares his thoughts on…

Last week, I talked about the likelihood of the S&P 500 (SPY) remaining range-bound due to the mix of bullish and bearish forces. One of the bullish forces was the resilience in earnings which have remained positive (+6% in Q2) despite adverse conditions. Another was the signs showing that inflation…

It is now clear the summer bear market rally is over. Now we are descending back into bear market territory with a retest of the S&P 500 (SPY) lows at 3,636 a very likely occurrence. But is that bottom or might we be in store for even more pain? 40…

Investors were once again foolishly bidding up stocks coming into the inflation report Tuesday morning. Bulls were slaughtered when they found out that inflation is not fading away and that likely spells more economic pain on the way as the Fed will need to stay on the rate hike war…

It’s easy to appreciate the confusion for investors at this time. Just when you think the bears are back in charge...next comes a big 3 day rally that calls it all into question. But why did stocks rally? And why do most signs still point bearish? And why does Steve…

The market continues to confound and confuse both bulls and bears alike...The hope that a new bull market began in mid-June has been extinguished by the S&P 500 (SPY) declining from 4,300 to 3,900. While the bears continue to be stymied by an economy that continues to be more resilient…

How do you feel about the stock market (SPY) when I tell you that 45% of economists see a recession forming in the next 12 months? And now how does your outlook change when I tell you that the average recession and bear market has formed when only 40% of…

Since testing the 200-day moving average in mid-August, the S&P 500 (SPY) has been in liquidation mode. More importantly, we have retraced more than 50% of the advance that began in mid-June. Is this just a pullback? Or, are we back in bear market mode? This question will be the…

The recent 18% rally for the S&P 500 (SPY) was a flight of fancy. Fed Chairman Powell made sure that message was heard loud and clear from the mountain tops in Jackson Hole. This sets up for an interesting fork in the road where dropping back down the June lows…

Is this the end of the bear-market rally or just a correction amid a new uptrend?

Every article I saw today on Fed Chair Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole focused on the idea that raising rates will cause “pain” to the economy. This sparked a nasty -3.37% scalping of the S&P 500 (SPY) and having investors pondering if we are about to revisit the June lows.…