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"Either markets have to come down to where growth expectations are, or growth and earnings expectations have to move higher to justify current market valuations," says Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank's chief international economist...

Key Points Recessions are not back-to-back negative GDP quarters; they’re instead defined using four key coincident economic indicators. Bear markets often overlap with recessions (and typically lead them), but not always. It’s important to distinguish between leading and lagging economic...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/6-reasons-why-stocks-are-still-overvalued-even-after-this-recent-correction-2019-01-14

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-03/here-are-all-analysts-who-were-shocked-apples-announcement

But that is the past. Going forward, the every-other-meeting hiking routine is over. While the Fed is still projecting 3 more interest rates hikes in 2019 (down from 4 at the September meeting), they are unlikely to meet this target. Instead, a long pause awaits us. Why? 6 Reasons….. The...

Bierman says look at the facts: 84% of the stocks in the S&P 500 are still trading below their 200-day moving average. And 95% of stocks in the S&P 500 are still trading below their 50-day moving average. Another breadth statistic from Bierman: On the 1,000 point Dow day, there were 114 new...

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“If you can’t explain why the market is moving, you should be suspicious of the moves the market makes,” Sløk said, adding that the rise of algorithmic trading and rules-based investment strategies like risk-parity investment funds can likely take the blame for the outsized moves in the market...