Chris Ciovacco

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Contact Contributor

Biography

• Wild Swings In Stocks Speak To Increasing Uncertainty

  Published 28 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Geopolitical events tend to involve a high degree of uncertainty. A geopolitical event involving Vladimir Putin involves a massive degree of uncertainty. Russia/Ukraine developments Monday…

• Credit Markets Are Saying Be Careful With Stocks

  Published 25 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Mergers & Acquisitions Have Weakened Balance Sheets One of the many tenets on Wall Street is that debt investors are often a step or two…

• Russia vs. Apple: How To Monitor The Battle

  Published 24 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Apple: The Good News Apple, one of the darlings of the current bull market, delivered on the earnings, share repurchase, and split fronts after the…

• Investors Must Know How We Got Here And Where We Are Going

  Published 23 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Policymakers Are Blowing Bubbles Again Many hard-working Americans are scratching their collective heads about the following questions: Why have stocks performed in a manner that…

• Uncertain Fed Plus Uncertain Economy Equals Uncertain Markets

  Published 21 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Stocks, Bonds, and Gold Oh My! After 111 calendar days we have established one thing about the 2014 investment landscape; it is quite a bit…

• Fed's Low-Rate Pledge Keeps Wind At Stock Market's Back

  Published 17 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Don't Fight The Fed The longer you are involved with the financial markets, the more meaningful the expression don't fight the Fed becomes. In the…

• Stock Rally: Will Third Time Be A Charm For Dow?

  Published 16 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Mobile Usage Hurts Google The easiest way for investors to become more decisive in the financial markets is for earnings to justify higher stock prices.…

• Trading Range or Stock Correction Remain Most Plausible Scenarios

  Published 15 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The mixed-bag economy and mixed-bag market continue to call for defensive contingency plans. Given what we know today, a rapid and sustainable push to new…

• Stock Bounce Does Little To Alleviate Concerns

  Published 14 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The stock bulls got a nice fundamental trifecta Monday with good news on the economic, central bank, and geopolitical fronts. However, the rally attempt thus…

• The End Of The Correction-Less Fantasy Land

  Published 11 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  If you are relatively new to the investing world, you may not have a realistic reference point to understand how painful stock market corrections can…

• The Case For Slower Growth, Low Rates, and Income Investments

  Published 10 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Relative weakness in consumer discretionary and retail stocks is indicative of increasing concerns about future economic outcomes. Relative strength in longer-dated Treasuries, income-oriented REITS, and…

• Fed Jawboning, Minutes Give Stocks A Lift

  Published 09 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Evans Picks Up Megaphone On April 8, we outlined reasons to be concerned about stocks. The Fed pays close attention to the market's risk profile;…

• Stocks: Four Reasons To Have Defensive Contingency Plans

  Published 08 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The global economy is on track for subpar growth. Consolidation is a symptom of investor indecisiveness. Small caps are expensive and investor demand has been…

• Dow Theory Signal Questions Bullish Economic And Market Trends

  Published 04 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Charts Monitor, Rather Than Dismiss Fundamental Data Critics of technical analysis often mistakenly believe that using charts discounts the importance of fundamental data, such as…

• Emerging Markets: Is The Recent Push Higher Sustainable?

  Published 03 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Emerging Markets: Reason To Hope Driven partly by hopes Chinese officials will implement some additional and fairly significant reflation projects, emerging markets stocks (EEM) have…

• How To Monitor The Risk Of A Midterm-Election-Year Stock Correction

  Published 02 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  The Other Side Of The Midterm Coin In an April 1 article, we cited two midterm election years, 1986 and 1994, as cases where assuming…

• Midterm Stock Correction Bets Could Backfire

  Published 01 April 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Election-Year Strategies Far From Certain If you work on Wall Street or follow the markets closely, you have undoubtedly heard that "stocks typically correct in…

• The Rationale Behind Yellen's Mixed Message

  Published 31 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Yellen Continues Down Familiar Path Of Confusion Last week Janet Yellen spooked the markets by hinting an interest rate hike may be coming sooner than…

• Foreign Stimulus Could Push U.S. Stocks To New Highs

  Published 28 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Stocks Impacted By Comments Overseas Even with the Fed trying to cut back on their stimulative efforts, U.S. investors are still being impacted by talk…

• With Fed Stepping Back, Your Portfolio Needs You To Step Up And Lead

  Published 27 March 2014 | viewed 0 times

  Investing And Retirement Planning Can Induce Stress With the Federal Reserve continuing down the tapering path, and the S&P 500 nearly flat for the year,…