Stock Market update -May 17

We dropped from the recent highs around 2950 this week on the SPX, forming a possible double top in that area. That also matches up with a resistance level seen in Sep 2018 and May 2019, the Jan 2018 top, and congestion from Apr 2019 thru Oct 2019 when the markets lifted off after the Fed started the nightly Repo money drops! We are now below that Oct 2019 level.

Going forward, we could see further pullbacks, given the rejection twice at the 2950ish level. In the bigger context, this could be the resumption of the big downtrend that started in Feb, followed by the bounce to 2950, and now a continuation of the downtrend. We'll see. 
We also have a few more earnings reports this week, including NVDA and many of the big retailers.

This week J.Crew and Neiman Marcus and J C Penney filed for bankruptcy,


Bonds & Gold were flat, and Oil continued to recover from the earlier price disaster. 






S&P 500 market crash recovery (chart...choppy week 

High yield Corporate Bonds (HYG) -holding up so far (2yr chart
Investment grade Corporate Bonds (LQD) -Fed recovery-(2yr chart

Market concerns:  Coronavirus... 
Pops:   
Drops:   

Over $25 Trillion in debt!  See Debt Clock on the left, or here... 

I expect in time we will see this skyrocket with all the new debt being added.




Bonds  were up a bit-chart (link)
10yr rates are low (chart)


New all time highs:   BILI, CHGG, DKNG, DOCU, ETSY,  JD, NVDA, NFLX, NET, PTON, TEAM, SHOP, WIX
All time lows:    

Options watch:   S&P 500 Implied Volatility  (CBOE VIX) -continuing to pull back!
ETFs SPY, IWM, QQQ, GLD, GDX, USO, XOP, VXX, XLF, XLE, FXI, EEM EWZ, 

Stocks AAPL, AMD, BAC, BABA, DIS, FB, MU, NFLX, NVDA, ROKU, TSLA...


Next week:     
MTWTF
EARNING:BIDU, WMT, HDTGT, LOWNVDA, INTUBABA
Events:





This week's charts:


$NYA -NYSE Composite  -consolidating
 (IWM)   Small-caps -ditto



Links...
10yr Interest Rates  -still veery low
ETFs - Ranked by  Volume
S&P 500 Sector performance -

Crude Oil  rallied nicely again, closing near 29.65
Gold saw a nice rally too, closing near 1754 -holding over $1700
The US Dollar was up a bit, closing near 100.38
The 30 year Bond was up, closing near 180.78

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