Sep 14, 2023 | Martin Pring's Technical Corner
In February this year we wrote an article entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Recession. It observed that the consensus of commentators was calling for a recession but concluded that such an outcome was unlikely. Our rationale was based on two things....
Jul 26, 2022 | Martin Pring's Technical Corner
Growing Evidence the Secular Trend in Stock Prices May be Reversing While it is true in the very long run stocks go up, it is also true that secular bear markets are a fact of life. These dangerous extended periods where inflation adjusted stocks underperform can last...
Mar 21, 2022 | Martin Pring's Technical Corner
In October 2021, we made the case for a new secular commodity bull market and concluded that this environment would likely spill back into the economy and stock market. That process is already underway, as the NASDAQ Composite was recently down 20% from its high,...
Oct 18, 2021 | Martin Pring's Technical Corner
Aging demographics, technological innovation and an ever -expanding debt overhang are three reasons why inflation has been largely kept under wraps in the last three decades. They are still relevant, so why not extrapolate a benign inflation trend into the future? One...
Dec 8, 2020 | Martin Pring's Technical Corner
A year ago, as the economy was emerging from its third slowdown following the financial crisis, commodity prices looked set to move higher. However, due to the pandemic lockdown, the global economy abruptly fell into recession and commodity prices quickly collapsed....