It is hard not to notice that while these consumer defensive, dividend-paying stocks are in pullback mode, traders are gorging themselves on financials.
Consequently, we are staying with our short positions and inverses in anticipation of a pullback in the US equity market.
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With the greatest weakness among transportation stocks being in the airlines, the pullback in Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) seems especially worth keeping track of.
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In fact, the current pullback in DKS represents another round of profit-taking from that rally, an advance that took DKS to a significant new high.
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The stock is newly oversold after losing more than 1% in a pullback on Tuesday.
Columbo advises "to stick with what's working, " and for now, large-cap value stocks have held up in 2005, despite the market's sharp pullback in the month of April.
Currently, gold has been in a nice rally after a pullback low in February.
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Exactly a year ago, gold was in a nice rally after a pullback low in February.
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Following this line of reasoning, future declines in GDP could lead to increased risks of recession and a potential pullback in the equity markets.
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Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke appears to still have support for his extraordinary monetary policy efforts, but a rising hawkish tone and the looming end of his term in 2014 could portend a shift sooner than the Street expects and contributed to a pullback in the market Wednesday.
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Perhaps the biggest argument in the bull's camp is that it would be an odd time for a sustained pullback in spending.
Because of this, any weakness in NUE will likely prove more rewarding to buyers of weakness and sellers of strength than a pullback in AKS or X, both of which continue to trade in bear market territory.
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Usually we are not big fans of buying gap ups, but the pullback the stock has experienced in the weeks since the pullback has made what might otherwise seem "ugly" appear to us as a potential opportunity to the upside.
This indicated that the poll is almost as bearish as it was in July, when the market was just emerging from the pullback earlier in the year.
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The pullback in utilities corresponded with the yield on the ten-year Treasury note breaking above 4.4%.
Until we see a clear pullback in these local policies, the circle is likely to persist.
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Meanwhile, the recent pullback in gold prices has attracted physical demand and investor buying.
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However, a major pullback in price may create an opportunity later in the year.
Skipping straight to the end, money managers would also miss the sharp pullback in gold of the mid-1970s.
That was when I bought my house, when there was a pullback in the price of real estate.
Credit for the guerrilla pullback in Latin America's third-largest nation by population goes to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
However, gold, especially had seen a solid run higher and was due for a corrective pullback in prices.
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Then came the recession and with it the breath-snatching pullback in property values.
The recent price pullback in gold is not unhealthy for a market that is in a longer-term bullish uptrend.
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No near-term chart damage has occurred with this corrective pullback in an uptrend.
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However, the more prudent among you might want to wait for a potential pullback in price before executing a position.
Which may be too bad for long-term gold buyers hoping for a proper pullback in prices, such as 1975-1976 offered.
There was another low-volume pullback in late December before BAC gapped to the upside on over 350 million shares, line c.
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