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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- a day ago
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #110 – 4/13/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My rating opinion remains 8.0 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The market remains bullish, but overbought and overvalued. You can expect Mr. Market to continue moving sideways and sideways-up, with occasional volatility. We will probably experience both bold ups (on earnings and guidance) and downs (on 10-year T-Note rate increases). IRS NEWS: In case you missed it, the IRS has moved the April 15
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Apr 6
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #109 – 4/06/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My rating opinion remains 8.0 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The market remains bullish, but overbought and overvalued. You can expect Mr. Market to continue moving sideways and sideways-up, with a lot of volatility, both bold ups (on earnings and guidance) and downs (on 10-year T-Note rate increases). IRS NEWS: In case you missed it, the IRS has pushed the April 15 tax-filing deadline to May 15
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Mar 30
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #108 – 3/30/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My rating opinion remains 8.0 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The market remains bullish but overbought. You can expect Mr. Market to continue moving sideways and sideways-up, with a lot of volatility, both bold ups and downs. IRS NEWS: In case you missed it, the IRS has pushed the April 15 tax-filing deadline to May 15. ECONOMY and MARKETS … See my 2/28 eNewsletter for more info on inflation, in
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Mar 23
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #107 – 3/23/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My rating opinion remains 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The market remains bullish, but overbought. You can expect Mr. Market to continue moving sideways and sideways-up, with a lot of volatile, bold ups and downs. IRS NEWS: If you missed it, the IRS has pushed the April 15 tax-filing deadline to May 15. ECONOMY and MARKETS … The key concern in the markets continues to be inflation, interest
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Mar 16
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #106 – 3/16/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My rating opinion is 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The market remains bullish but overbought. You can expect Mr. Market to continue moving sideways and sideways-up, with a lot of volatile, bold ups and downs. ECONOMY and MARKETS … February retail sales declined, as did several other February data releases. The market declined a bit in reaction to the retail sales news. But, it seems like the
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Mar 9
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #105 – 3/09/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … My opinion is 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). Not a lot of change this week. Continued volatility. Market moving sideways, with a lot of bold ups and downs. Despite the recent scare on 2/25, the market remains overbought, but bullish. The market is in an ongoing rotation away from old growth, and into new growth and value. ECONOMY and MARKETS … Employment growth for February was strong, even th
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Mar 2
- 3 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #104 – 3/2/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). Despite the recent scare on 2/25, the market remains overbought but bullish. There is a rotation and broadening of areas attracting attention of investors, away from growth areas and into value investments. NOTE: I decided to go back to the very first issue of this newsletter – published on my personal Facebook timeline on 2/26/19 – and number them goin
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Feb 23
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #103 – 2/23/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). After I published last week’s newsletter, I decided to number them, and discovered I’m over number 100! ECONOMY and MARKETS. The market always looks ahead, and continues to focus on a better economy this summer when vaccinations are widespread and people can resume their everyday activities. The stimulus package, when passed, will give the economy some
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Feb 16
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report #102 - 2/16/21
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | February 16, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). ECONOMY and MARKETS. Even though the bull market has run for an extended period, increases in October – January economic indicators abound - 4th Qtr. Real GDP, Dec. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization, US Money Supply, Household savings, oil prices, bond prices, etc. – even though this was a period of caution and retrenchmen
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Feb 9
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | February 9, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 8 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). I’m going to 8 because these times are so unlike any other. The US Money Supply has increased so aggressively, and household savings have increased so dramatically, that it’s just amazing. Add-in the effects of several fiscal stimulus packages, and everything looks wonderful. The market is rallying so strongly, nearly every group is
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Feb 2
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | February 2, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7.0 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). I’ve gone back to 7.0 because my concern over broker-dealer financial problems has diminished. It’s likely that the whole short-selling issue is beginning to resolve itself. What a difference a day makes. The market is up 600 points as of this writing. In the last two days, the market has recovered most of the territory lost in the se
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Jan 28
- 3 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | January 27, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 6 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). My biggest investor concern is a new one - speculation (covering and buying) on marginal stocks, those previously with a high level of short selling. That is the only reason why I’ve backed down one notch on the market rating. I was unable to publish on Tuesday, and yesterday was too volatile, as the price action was a “first” of its ki
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Jan 20
- 1 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | January 19, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). My two biggest concerns are rising interest rates (10-yr T-Note) and asset class inversion (value stocks leading growth stocks) but the markets seem to be overlooking them, for the most part. The market is basically moving sideways-up. Value stocks are still outperforming growth stocks. Nothing else to say today. FOR NEW CLIENTS – If y
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Jan 12
- 3 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | January 12, 2021 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). I’m returning to my pre-holiday-period rating of 7, the current political issue notwithstanding. There are very few “negative anythings” out there. The two biggest concerns in my view are rising interest rates (10-yr T-Note) and asset class inversion (value stocks leading growth stocks). Since I do financial planning as well as investme
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Jan 5
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | January 5, 2021 MARKET NEUTRAL … Rating of 5 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish. My rating of Neutral is out of caution, rather than any particular signal I’m seeing. But, I am concerned that some economic data is not as good as it could be. We had another Monday of significant negative price action. There were two reasons in my view for this – concern about the Georgia Senate election, which got much of the press ti
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
12:00 TUESDAY 12/15/20 – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The Defensive Advisor | December 15, 2020 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish. A $900 billion bi-partisan stimulus package of some sort seems likely soon. Congress is running out of time to get this done. The high-flying stocks are extremely highly valued. Lately, economic news has not been good, but that was expected. The market is looking at the post-vaccine US that is coming this summer. Few are talking about w
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
TWELVE o'clock TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The DefensiveAdvisor.com | November 17, 2020 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). I can't think of a single thing to say that different from what I said last week, so here goes. The election is over, a virus vaccine appears imminent, the economy is looks really good, the Fed is backing away from interest rate changes (for a while), and the stock market had a very good day yesterday. So, what’s next? Will a stimu
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
TWELVE o'clock TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The DefensiveAdvisor.com | November 10, 2020 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). The election is over, a virus vaccine appears to be imminent, the economy is growing (good real GDP and jobs reports), the Fed is backing away from interest rate changes for now, and the stock market had a very good day yesterday. So, what’s next? Will a stimulus package be forthcoming? Probably, maybe soon, perhaps in mid-to-late
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Robert Holman - The Defensive Advisor
- Nov 3, 2020
- 2 min
TWELVE o'clock TUESDAY – Stock Market Report
by Robert Holman | The DefensiveAdvisor.com | November 3, 2020 MARKET BULLISH … Rating of 7 (0 - 4 is bearish, 5 is neutral, 6 - 10 is bullish). Cautious here because of the unknown election outcome. ECONOMICS … The news is pretty good … good GDP growth, personal income and consumption that is typical of “good times” numbers, etc. ELECTIONS, VIRUS and STIMULUS – Well, the election is finally here. Many in Wall Street say that in the short-term it really doesn’t matter who i
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