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Bull Bear Report

The weekly Bull Bear Report covers what happened in the markets, what investors should be paying attention to, and how to navigate the week ahead.

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Rally Into Year-End: 3-Reasons To “Buy Dips”

By Lance Roberts, Oct 18, 2025

This past week delivered a sharp pickup in volatility and quick reversals, underlining how fragile the tape has become. Early in the week, markets

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Market Crack Or Beginning Of Something Bigger

By Lance Roberts, Oct 11, 2025

The market crack on Friday resulted from a defensive move as geopolitical stress, trade rhetoric, and political dysfunction triggered a sharp

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Bubble In AI: Echoes Of The Past, Lessons For The Present

By Lance Roberts, Oct 4, 2025

Markets closed the third quarter grappling with two competing forces: Jerome Powellโ€™s warning that equities are โ€œfairly highly valued,โ€ and the

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Markets Detached From Economic Fundamentals

By Lance Roberts, Sep 27, 2025

Jerome Powellโ€™s statement this past week, that U.S. stocks appear โ€œfairly highly valued,โ€ wasnโ€™t as dramatic as Alan Greenspanโ€™s 1996

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Overbought Conditions Across Multiple Markets

By Lance Roberts, Sep 20, 2025

The Federal Reserve delivered its first rate cut of 2025 on Wednesday, lowering the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to

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Covered Call Strategies Gone Wild

By Lance Roberts, Sep 13, 2025

This past week delivered a trio of market-moving economic releases, CPI, PPI, and the annual employment revisions, that collectively shaped investor

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Using MACD To Manage Portfolio Risk

By Lance Roberts, Sep 6, 2025

The August employment report painted a clear picture of a cooling U.S. economy. Employers added just 22,000 jobs, far below consensus expectations,

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Meme Markets: Investing vs. Entertainment

By Lance Roberts, Aug 30, 2025

August turned out to be anything but typical for investors. Historically, the month is plagued by seasonal weakness, thinner liquidity, and

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Market Valuations Don’t Matter…Until They Do

By Lance Roberts, Aug 23, 2025

After the market slid lower all week, testing the 20-DMA on Thursday, Jerome Powellโ€™s speech at Jackson Hole turned sentiment on a dime. The

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Inflation Data Sends Markets To New Highs

By Lance Roberts, Aug 16, 2025

U.S. equities notched fresh milestones midweek before fading into Fridayโ€™s close. The July CPI print (headline +0.2% m/m, +2.7% y/y; core +0.3%

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US Economic Growth Shows Cracks

By Lance Roberts, Aug 9, 2025

This past week, markets were driven by trade policy shocks, monetary policy developments, and solid corporate earnings, creating a push-and-pull

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Analysts Grow Bullish With Earnings Forecasts

By Lance Roberts, Aug 2, 2025

Markets traded mixed last week as macro headwinds collided with high-stakes earnings. The S&P 500 slipped -2.36%, while the Nasdaq fell 2.17% in a

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Retail Data Sends A Warning

By Lance Roberts, Jul 26, 2025

The S&P 500 closed the week at 6,388.64, notching another fresh record high and extending one of the longest weekly winning streaks in the past three

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Company Buybacks Are Surging

By Lance Roberts, Jul 19, 2025

As markets close the week after setting fresh all-time highs, the near-term outlook remains cautiously constructive but demands more tactical

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Is The Dollar Setting Up For A Comeback?

By Lance Roberts, Jul 12, 2025

The S&P 500 closed the week in positive territory, marking another strong performance near record highs. While the index briefly hit new all-time

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Investor Greed Returns With A Vengeance

By Lance Roberts, Jul 4, 2025

Markets kicked off the second half of 2025 with a strong finish to Q2, propelled by easing geopolitical fears, falling oil prices, and a

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WWIII – The Death Of Another Narrative

By Lance Roberts, Jun 28, 2025

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both set all-time highs this week. This feat seems remarkable given the barrage of negative headlines, geopolitical risks,

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Oil Price Rise, Not Tariffs, Will Cause CPI To Tick Up

By Lance Roberts, Jun 21, 2025

The market continued to trade in a back-and-forth pattern this week as it consolidated recent gains. Negative news headlines from the ongoing

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The Bull Rally Continues

By Lance Roberts, Jun 13, 2025

The market's bullish trend continued this week, and it is rapidly approaching all-time highs. However, an Israeli strike on Iran early Friday morning

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Stock Market Performance As Summer Arrives

By Lance Roberts, Jun 7, 2025

Despite a weakening unemployment report, a spat between President Trump and Elon Musk, a resurgence in the Ukraine/Russia conflict, and remaining

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The Narratives Change. Markets Don’t.

By Lance Roberts, May 31, 2025

Most notably, this past week was the successful test of the 200-DMA. The pullback to that previous broken resistance level and subsequent bounce

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An Unstoppable Bull Market?

By Lance Roberts, May 24, 2025

Several times this past week, we discussed that the market was due for a corrective pullback after reaching more overbought conditions. On Friday,

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Recession Probabilities Decline

By Lance Roberts, May 17, 2025

This past week, the market continued its advance. There is little reason to be bearish with key overhead resistance levels broken. However, as shown,

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Earnings Revision Shows Sharp Decline

By Lance Roberts, May 10, 2025

The market paused its advance before the Fed meeting on Wednesday, which was remarkably uneventful. The Fed held rates steady as expected and did not

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Economic Decline Gains Momentum

By Lance Roberts, May 3, 2025

This past week, two reports confirmed the economy is slowing. First, there was the weak GDP report, which showed growth of roughly one percent, after

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Spock And The Logic Based Approach To Volatility

By Lance Roberts, Apr 26, 2025

The market rallied above the 20-DMA this past week as investors found some "silver linings" to the ongoing tariff dispute. Despite China saying "no

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Is Risk Off Positioning Signaling A Market Low?

By Lance Roberts, Apr 19, 2025

This week, the market was hit following a speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, in which he stated that the administration's tariffs could spark "higher

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Basis Trade Sent Yields Soaring – Is It A Warning?

By Lance Roberts, Apr 11, 2025

Last week, we noted that the market was not expecting retaliation from China. That battle persisted this week as Trump raised tariffs on China to

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The “Liberation Day” Tariffs Crash The Market

By Lance Roberts, Apr 5, 2025

Last week, we noted that it would not be uncommon for the market to retest recent lows. That is what happened on Monday morning before rallying

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Sellable Rally Or “Buy The Dip”

By Lance Roberts, Mar 29, 2025

The market tried to muster a rally this week, and we are beginning to see early signs of a bottom forming. However, on Friday, the impact of tariffs