Stocks, Oil Diverge As Corrections Spike
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Jason Goepfert
Published: 2020-02-05 at 11:00:00 CST
Diverging markets
Stocks surged again and neared (or hit) 52-week highs, yet crude oil fell again and closed at a 52-week low. Typically, there is more of a positive correlation between them.
Going back to 1985, when oil diverged so much from stocks, it led to mixed returns for stocks, with slight weakness shorter-term. It was mostly the same for oil prices.
The last two signals, in 2007, and 2014, proved to be more worrisome. After those, the S&P 500 declined over the next 1-2 months, and also over the next year.
Fewer Corrections
The percentage of S&P 500 stocks in a correction, more than 10% below 52 week highs, fell over the past few months to the lowest level since early-2018 as the stock market rallied.
Various studies demonstrated that when this happened in the past, the S&P's returns over the next 6-12 months were mostly bearish since this typically happened after a major correction or a bear market:
But as the S&P made a recent pullback, the % of stocks in a correction jumped more than 15%. When this figure hit a 400 day low and then jumped more than 15% over the next 2 weeks, the S&P typically rallied over the next month.
In a bull market this is typical when the market experiences a period of strong momentum and then makes a quick pullback.
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