by Chris Kimble | Jan 31, 2025 | Kimble Charting
Looking at the price of Gold in US Dollars is critical to understanding its trend for US investors. Today we look at a “monthly” chart of the Gold to US Dollar ratio to highlight why Gold may be breaking out. If the Gold/Dollar ratio can hold above 14-year resistance...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 30, 2025 | Kimble Charting
We have repeated several times the importance and implications of rising/falling interest rates. And today we come back to this theme while discussing long-term US treasury bond yields. Above, we share a “monthly” chart of the 30-year treasury bond yield. And, as you...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 15, 2025 | Kimble Charting
Interest rates continue to dominate our recent research. And rightfully so. Big swings in interest rates have ramifications for the domestic and global economy. Whether it is falling bond yields / interest rates in China (as we highlighted last week) or rising bond...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 14, 2025 | Kimble Charting
In just 4 years, the trend (and investment theme) of low interest rates has been turned on its head. During this time, home and auto loan rates have gone from consumer-friendly to unfriendly. Quite frankly, whether you look at the 10-year or 30-year treasury bond...
by Chris Kimble | Jan 8, 2025 | Kimble Charting
There are a lot of moving parts across the global economy. From commodity prices to employment data to bond yields, investors pay attention. Today we look at government bond yields (i.e. interest rates)… and how they are moving in opposite directions in China compared...
by Chris Kimble | Dec 20, 2024 | Kimble Charting
The stock market has been charging higher into year end. Then came the FED interest rate decision and comments. But even a couple weeks before this, an area of the stock market was already pulling back: the small-cap Russell 2000 Index. The small cap index tested its...
by Chris Kimble | Nov 22, 2024 | Kimble Charting
In February 2021, the Nasdaq Composite stock index began to underperform the S&P 500… and this has continued for the past 45 months. Today, we highlight the long-term chart of this Nasdaq to S&P 500 ratio price performance, along with key observations and...
by Chris Kimble | Nov 21, 2024 | Kimble Charting
If you have been investing for 35 years, you likely remember the fervor heading into the Japanese Nikkei stock market index peak. And most investors of any age likely have viewed charts and read about it. Why? Because there was a bullish mania to buy Japanese stocks...