The S&P 500 punches back above its 200-day moving average. It's never quite that simple, but it doesn't need to be much more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 are having a good year with both ...

The S&P 500, the large cap index, is widely followed as a measure of the health of the U. S. economy. The Nasdaq-100 is widely followed as a measure mainly of the big tech and social media stocks that ...

The chart below shows the S&P 500’s performance in the week of the Jackson Hole conference every year since the end of the Financial Crisis in 2009. More often than not, it’s been a positive week. Of ...

The messages from the chart, in most investors’ interpretation (especially the bears’ these days), are so clear that they are almost irrefutable. The most common interpretation is that the chart ...