David Moenning's Daily State of the Markets: 4/15 Apr 15, 2009 09:49AM

Will It Take?

With a drop of 137 points, the bears effectively sowed the seeds of a pullback yesterday. However, in light of the fact that since March 10th any and all such efforts have been trampled by a thundering herd, one has to wonder if this is the one that will finally take.

If you will recall, over the past 25 trading days, the S&P has not been down more than two days in a row. In addition, the maximum pullback during the bulls’ latest romp has been a paltry -5.44%. And since this has been one of the best runs in 75 years, even the staunchest doom-and-gloomer has to give the bulls some credit ...


David Moenning's Daily State of the Markets: 12/02 Dec 2, 2008 09:56AM

It Ain’t Over

Last week’s big rally led many to believe that we’d seen the worst in the credit crisis. Last week’s introduction of the new economic team gave us hope that the there were answers forthcoming. And last week’s new policy initiatives led many to believe that the recession could be handled. However, if yesterday’s surprise -9% freefall told us anything, it was that this bear market is not over just yet.

In all fairness, stocks had become overbought and the big rally may indeed have gone a little too far too fast. Thus, a pullback was certainly to be expected. And coming into the session, anyone who was feeling left out of last week’s fun might have been tempted to do a little nibbling. So it will suffice to say that a plunge of -7.7% on the Dow, -9% on both the S&P and NASDAQ, and a -12% shellacking ...