Bryan Perry
A Tighter Fed Policy Could be Inflation Overkill
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A Bear Market Bounce or the Pause That Refreshes?
Friday’s downbeat close took every sector lower, except health care. It was the first session where there were no genuine attempts by investors to buy the intra-day dip, but it was also a day where $2.3 trillion in equity-linked options expired. Some argue this removes a layer of support for the market underneath, and the […]
Rising Odds of Recession in Europe Pose a Risk to U.S. Rally
Back in the day when I was working as a broker at Bear Stearns in San Francisco in 1989, and well before the fall of that storied Wall Street firm, every morning before the market opened, the entire trading floor would gather at 6:00 a.m. to have a pre-market strategy meeting about what to trade […]
Market Rally Has Some High Hurdles To Clear
One of the most exciting races in all of track and field is the 110-meter-high hurdles, a fierce event that requires extreme focus, grit and determination to succeed in clearing all 10 hurdles without hitting one, which can easily compromise victory. Back in 1981, Renaldo “Skeets” Nehemiah owned the track and field world as the […]
The Bear Market Might Be Over
The stock market enjoyed its best month in a long time, pulling up off of the June lows and putting in a healthy performance for July. Earnings season has been anything but the “whistling by the graveyard” scenario so many notable Wall Street gurus had been touting. After all, they are supposed to have the […]
Approaching a Make Or Break Week Ahead For Stocks
The headlines crossing the tape of the past week regarding the economy are anything but reassuring, and yet stocks are rising in spite of negative news. For investors trying to make sense of why stocks rally in the face of missed earnings, and in some cases, lower guidance, it can really be a challenge. But […]