Marketmail® Archive
5-6-25: First-Year Flops Are Normal in Market History
by Gary Alexander May 6, 2025 We’re having a troublesome 2025 so far, but over most of the last 200-years, these post-election years – any president’s first year in office, first or [...]
5-6-25: Hard Truths from Warren Buffett on the Federal Debt Crisis
by Bryan Perry May 6, 2025 At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting this past weekend, CEO Warren Buffett downplayed recent market volatility as “really nothing.” Such may be the case from his [...]
5-6-25: Friday’s Jobs Report Doesn’t Give the Fed a “Pass” on Cutting Rates
by Louis Navellier May 6, 2025 Last Friday, the Labor Department announced that 177,000-payroll jobs were created in April, much more than the economists’ consensus estimate of 133,000 – and the market [...]
4-29-25: Survival Techniques in a Confusing Market Year
by Jason Bodner April 29, 2025 Survival is encoded into our DNA and affects everything we do at a deep subconscious level. Some animals have wild ways of reacting to life-or-death situations. [...]
4-29-25: The Stock Market is Sniffing Out More Trade Deals
by Ivan Martchev April 29, 2025 It is comical to see how the Chinese twice last week had to deny that they are having any trade talks with the U.S. via their [...]
4-29-25: Downbeat Sentiment (and Magazine Covers) are Contrarian Buy Signals
by Gary Alexander April 29, 2025 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett Investor sentiment is way down since late February – and [...]
4-29-25: The Fed Should Act Next Week, With a Preemptive Rate Cut
by Bryan Perry April 29, 2025 The market enjoyed a much-needed snap-back last week. In order to build on this nascent rebound, more progress on tariffs, inflation and earnings need to cross [...]
4-29-25: Tariffs Are Melting Away, But China Remains Stubborn
by Louis Navellier April 29, 2025 Last week, Japan was negotiating with the Trump Administration, and this week may be South Korea’s turn. Regarding China, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a closed-door JP Morgan [...]
4-22-25: Make Market Volatility Your Friend
by Jason Bodner April 22, 2025 It’s been a volatile year thus far – one of the highest on record. Upon that, I think we can all agree. There are, however, many [...]
4-22-25: The Stock Market is in “No Man’s Land”
by Ivan Martchev April 22, 2025 They say the bulls live above the 200-day moving average while bears live below it. This may be true in normal times, but times are anything [...]
4-22-25: Three Mid-April Shocks Launched Three “Lost Decades”
by Gary Alexander April 22, 2025 There were three mid-April shocks at the start of three decades in the last century – April in 1930, 1970 and 2000 – which led to [...]
4-22-25: Hot Spots and Hard Data Keep Markets Guessing
by Bryan Perry April 22, 2025 As volatility rules the investing landscape, there are tariff cross currents, conflicting soft and hard economic data, little if any forward corporate guidance, a ticked-off President [...]