Michael Santoli

This is the daily notebook of Mike Santoli, CNBC’s senior markets commentator, with ideas about trends, stocks and market statistics.

Since 1950, the S&P 500 has never been down from November to April in a midterm election year.

This is the daily notebook of Mike Santoli, CNBC’s senior markets commentator, with ideas about trends, stocks and market statistics.

From Nov. 19, 2021, until the bear-market low to date, hit less than a month ago, the Nasdaq Composite lost 37% of its value.

This is the daily notebook of Mike Santoli, CNBC’s senior markets commentator, with ideas about trends, stocks and market statistics.

The dismantling of the crypto complex proceeds, with Coinbase shares giving up 17% this week and sitting more than 85% below their peak price.

Mike Santoli assesses the chances that this bounce is the turn in the market investors have been waiting for.

Salesforce is valued in parity with Microsoft after 17 years of extreme priciness.

This is the daily notebook of Mike Santoli, CNBC’s senior markets commentator, with ideas about trends, stocks and market statistics.

The market continues to act as if investors entered 2023 light on risk and ill-positioned for positive economic outcomes.

The early 2023 rally is nearing a point where the bear market could plausibly be declared over.

Market confidence that the Fed is just about done is combining with an overall decent level of economic activity and companies trying to defend profit margins.

The uncommon strength of the early-year rally has undercut the longstanding bear case on stocks along a few fronts.

Did the “soft landing” occur six months ago, at least in market terms?

The burden of proof is growing on the market optimists, Mike Santoli writes.

A rough two months have tested the market’s uptrend and challenged investors conviction that a soft economic landing was in sight.

Mike Santoli discusses where the market stands one year from the low of the 2022 bear market.

The stock market’s prolonged pullback from its 2023 highs began in July just as the 10-year Treasury yield began its steep ascent from 3.75% to 5%.

Last week’s 2.6% slide in the S&P 500 also reflects the more disorderly risk-fleeing action that follows a broken uptrend.

The S&P 500 rally off the late-October low now amounts to 7.2% in two weeks.