John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended February 22nd
Fast start Entering the final week of February, the S&P 500 was on pace to record its biggest early-year advance in nearly three decades. The last time the index climbed more than 10% over January and February was in 1991. This year’s gains have been broad; as of Thursday, 90% of S&P 500 […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended February 15th
Bullish comeback While market gains have been modest in recent weeks, they’ve been impressive taken as a whole. Since stocks sank to a recent low on December 24, the S&P 500 and Dow have both risen around 18%. The NASDAQ has added nearly 21%, exiting a bear market that it entered in late December. […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended February 8th
NASDAQ bull back? The NASDAQ modestly outperformed the other major indexes for the week and at one point came close to entering a new bull market. At midweek, the index was up about 19% from a recent low reached in late December, when it entered a bear market. A rise of 20% from […]
Kevin Miller on Fox Business Mornings with Maria
BB&T, SunTrust to combine in merger valued at approximately $66B Feb. 07, 2019 – 3:51 – E-Valuator Funds CIO Kevin Miller on the merger deal between BB&T and SunTrust and the state of the financial sector overall. The interview can be found at: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5999536912001/#sp=show-clips
CNN and Kevin Miller: Wall Street hates a lot of big retail stocks
New York (CNN Business) It’s a good time to be a shopper because companies like Amazon(AMZN), Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT) are keeping prices low. But that’s terrible news for many other retailers, and for consumer products companies, whose goods they sell. A bunch of S&P 500 stocks related to retail and consumer goods — […]
Market Watch and Kevin Miller: Stocks rise ahead of Trump’s State of the Union address
Stocks close higher as investors await Trump’s State of the Union speech Stocks closed higher Tuesday, with the S&P 500 extending its winning streak to a fifth session, as investors continued to sort through corporate earnings while awaiting President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in the evening. How did major benchmarks […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended February 1st
January comeback After the worst December since 1931, the S&P 500 started the new year off with a bang, posting its best January result since 1987 with a gain of 7.9%. The Dow added 7.2% in the opening month of 2019, which was that index’s best January result since 1989. 8+ years of uninterrupted […]