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Gold Futures Gold futures in the December contract settled last Friday in New York at 1,962 an ounce while currently trading at 1,860, down over $100 for the trading week, experiencing one of the...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/gold-futures-to-test-major-support/

The stock market is trying to end the week on a daily positive note as we head into the close. The S&P 500 is +.9%, the DOW +.6%, and NASDAQ rounds out the positive run with a gain of over +1%, w...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/4-week-losing-streak-for-sp-500-and-dow/

The Transportation Index, which typically leads the US stock market by 2 to 4+months, has been unusually aligned with the S&P 500 over the past 8+ months. Recently, though, the Transportation Ind...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/topping-pattern-or-just-consolidation/

CVS Health (CVS) wasn't immune from the market declines that were inflicted by the COVID-19 downturn. Despite being in the traditional defensive healthcare space and confined to domestic operatio...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/cvs-stock-slump-despite-aetna-catalyst/

In Part One, I discussed how heavily weighted the S&P 500's top stocks are and how, in reality, the bottom 200 stocks in the index don't even matter. Now I would like to talk about potentially be...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/this-is-why-you-are-losing-to-the-sp-500-part-2/

The prices of gold and silver remained between triggers last week as volatility left the market, and the “pulse” on the chart is hardly beating. It is time to challenge our bullish view, as i...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/gold-silver-too-good-to-be-true/

Copper Futures Copper futures in the December contract settled last Friday in New York at 3.0395 a pound while currently trading at 3.0700, up about 300 points for the trading week as prices are ...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/improving-global-demand-drives-futures-higher/

As we speak, Republicans and Democrats are still wrestling over another coronavirus stimulus package. Everyone wants one, we’re told, and the economy needs one. Don’t start spending that stim...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/do-we-really-need-more-stimulus/

Historically speaking, September tends to be a weak month for the stock market. September has been the worst-performing month for markets, on average, since 1950, with the S&P 500 (SP500) droppin...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/september-blues-continue-for-stocks/

You recently looked at your very diversified portfolio and compared it to the return of the S&P 500 (SPY), and to your shock, you are underperforming the market. You start to wonder how that can ...

https://www.ino.com/blog/2020/09/this-is-why-you-are-losing-to-the-sp-500/