Fireside Charts: Fastest 25% Drawdown in a Century, More Fed Intervention, and Record Volatility
March 16, 2020It's been what feels like a lightning-fast switch from the economy enjoying its longest and slowest period of growth to setting new types ...
Fireside Charts: Lions and Tigers and... You Know the Rest
March 13, 2020And the hits just keep on coming... The Dow saw its worst single-day loss since the 1987 rash yesterday, the circuit breaker kicked in again, the MSCI world Index saw it's ...
Fireside Charts: Volatility Surges (Again), the Oil Price War, and Recession Indicators Are on the Rise
March 11, 2020While we've seen some recovery since Monday's massive day-long rout, it's been anything but smooth sailing in the markets this week. Volatility has surged—with the S&P 500 ...
Fireside Charts: Volatility Continues, Energy Market Spirals on Production Conflict, and Bonds Sound More Warnings
March 9, 2020To many people's shock, stocks ended last week slightly higher, likely thanks in part to Friday's strong jobs report. The ...
Fireside Charts: 30-Year Fixed Rate Lowest on Record, Energy Market in Flux, Shenzhen Index Recoups Losses
March 6, 2020This week's emergency interest rate cut brought mortgage rates even lower—the average 30-year fixed rate dropped to 3.29%, its lowest level on record—in a potential boon to U.S. ...
Fireside Charts: Fed Issues Emergency Rate Cut, S&P 500 Historical Trends, and a Global Manufacturing Pulse Check
March 4, 2020In a surprise (and rare—this marks the first since the financial crisis) inter-meeting move, the Federal Reserve issued an emergency 50-basis point rate cut yesterday to help ...
Fireside Charts: More Record Lows, Central Bank Intervention, and is the Market Oversold?
March 2, 2020After a straight week of market losses, there were some signs of stabilization this morning—the question is whether it will last or amount to a head-fake. The S&P ...
Fireside Charts: Fastest Correction on Record for S&P 500, U.S. Outperformance Shrinks, Safety Assets Surge
February 28, 2020It's no secret: this has been the worst week for U.S. stocks since the financial crisis. U.S. indices have entered correction territory—the fastest correction on record for the ...
Fireside Charts: Analyzing the Sell-Off, 10-Year UST Hits All-Time Low, Coronavirus Spreads Outside of China
February 26, 2020The markets may have kicked off this week with a severe case of the Mondays (okay, and the Tuesdays...), but is the situation as bad as it's being made out to be? The ACWI's ...
Fireside Charts: S&P 500 Forward P/E Ratio Passes 19%, U.S. Manufacturing Reverses Trend, Yields Hit Record Lows
February 24, 2020The forward price-to-equity (P/E) ratio for the S&P 500 index was about 19.5 late last week, passing the 19% ...
