I'm nearing the end of my two
peak weeks of training and my whole body's feeling the strain, but I'm also still feeling well overall so I'm really not complaining.
«Influenza - like illness is now at the same level as
the peak week of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.»
This is not good business for our investment properties, we can not afford to lose
a peak week of income due to this policy (and we have!).
Not exact matches
He reports Valentine e-mails
peaking at an average
of 2.9 a
week for the
week ending February 4.
According to USA Today, «Spotify is reporting that streams
of Nelly's songs... have increased by 200 % this
week over
peak hours compared to last
week.»
In the
weeks leading up to an event, it says, the number
of attacks increases,
peaking during the first
week of the tournament or games.
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During the week of spring break in mid-March, 6,800 American Airlines passengers missed their flights because of long checkpoint lines, foreshadowing the headaches that airlines fear during the peak summer travel months.
Flu season may
peak this
week, with patients exhibiting flu - like symptoms making up more than 6 %
of all visits to the doctor, according to the CDC's most recent weekly FluView report.
During the
week of spring break in mid-March, 6,800 American Airlines passengers missed their flights because
of long checkpoint lines, foreshadowing the headaches that airlines fear during the
peak summer travel months.
Indeed, cryptocurrencies crashed as much as 40 % in a 24 - hour period last
week, amid a longer selloff in which the Bitcoin price has fallen to half
of its
peak of $ 20,000.
The price
of bitcoin, the world's most well - known virtual currency, lost almost one fifth
of its value to $ 15,800 this
week after
peaking as high as $ 19,666 on Sunday, as feverish demand ebbed slightly after the exchange giant CME Group and its rival Cboe Global Markets listed bitcoin futures.
Doug Ramsey
of the Leuthold Group noted last
week that on Jan. 5 his preferred gauge, the 14 -
week Relative Strength Index, reached its highest level since 1959 — and then the market pushed higher still into last Friday and Tuesday's morning
peak, before stocks reversed by the close.
Far from working steadily eight hours a day, seven days a
week, most knowledge workers have
peaks and troughs
of productivity, alternating intense periods
of work with long stretches
of cat videos and inbox shoveling.
Within three
weeks of the vote, the S&P 500 reached record
peaks; the Stoxx 600, a broad Europe - wide index, made up almost all
of the 11 % it lost immediately after Brexit; and Britain's FTSE 100 index was flirting with a 52 -
week high.
Platinum was up 0.11 percent to $ 970.50 an ounce after touching a more than 3-1/2 - month
peak at $ 970.50 and palladium was 0.8 higher percent to $ 1,098.97, off last
week's record high
of $ 1,105.70.
«Sales for quality jewelry
peak in late January, after the holidays and a
week or two ahead
of Valentine's Day,» says Brent Shelton
of deals site DealCrunch.com.
Long - dated Treasury yields retreated for a second session on Friday, extending a run
of buying in government paper, after rates early in the
week touched multiyear
peaks.
If you collect this data over several
weeks, you can see if the pattern
of peaks persists from
week to
week.
This is nearly 8 years worth
of labour time and about an extra 100
weeks compared to the 1989
peak.
The sudden collapse
of mainland equity markets has wiped a combined 16.35 trillion yuan ($ 2.63 trillion) off market capitalization - more than the GDP
of Brazil - since a June 12
peak, dealing substantial damage to retail investors» confidence in just a few short
weeks.
The cash cost
of a residential property in terms
of weeks of labour dropped and did not catch up with the
peak reached in 1989 until 2006.
Two
weeks ago, the fund estimated that Greek debt would
peak at 177 %
of GDP and fall to 142 % by 2022.
Then we can see the search
peak during the first
week of April when TREB announced that prices were up 33 % year over year.
If a ban initiated by China's central bank this
week marks an end to the first era
of ICOs — the early gold rush before the regulators arrive — then Q2 2017 may turn out to be a
peak quarter in the history
of the industry.
Prior to the advance
of recent years, the list
of these instances was: August 1929, the
week of the bull market
peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the
week of the bull market
peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the
week of the final market
peak; and July 2007, within a few points
of the final
peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the
week of that bull final market
peak.
This
week bitcoin, a relatively young synthetic currency that people use to buy items over the web, made headlines after it hit an amazing
peak in price
of $ 4,726.
Finally, since you're contributing each
week, you'll get to take advantage
of dollar - cost averaging, a fancy way
of saying that you'll make sure you're not buying all your investments at their yearly
peak in price.
Unfortunately, the required advance was about 5 % even at the
peak a couple
of weeks ago.
The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior
peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times
peak earnings in the first year
of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form
of a powerful breadth thrust off
of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few
weeks by much broader trend uniformity.
The stock market bombed over the last couple
of weeks, thanks to the Republicans in the House
of Representatives, and I have lost about $ 1,000 from my
peak portfolio value.
Market intelligence company Canalys last
week demoted Apple's smartphone sales in China to part
of the «Others» category, a far cry from the 2015
peak where its market share was somewhere in the 40 - 50 % range in Urban China.
While this
week was certainly the
peak of the US and the European earnings season, traders will see some other interesting reports coming out in the coming days.
The next two
weeks are the
peak of the holiday season, so we'll likely see a retest
of stock market lows, but this merely gives investors a second chance to buy great stocks at bargain prices before most traders return after Labor Day.
In 1987, for example, the break following the August bull market
peak was largely recovered over the course
of several
weeks before failing rapidly in October.
For reference purposes, over the past 14 + years
of data: A Greedometer
peak reading
of 7700rpm for 6
weeks straight in late May - early July 2007.
There was a one
week period in mid-july, coinciding perfectly with the
peak of the Shanghai Composite, that middle class Chinese people opened up more than half a million brokerage accounts.
The latest price escalation comes amid an increase in transactions observed on the bitcoin network, with this figure hitting a 52 -
week peak on 30th November, and follows what has been a strong end
of the year for the digital currency, which traded for under $ 200 as recently as January.
The
week of the exact market
peak would also be included except that stocks closed down that
week after registering a final high on September 3, 1929.
The dollar has managed to stay below a six - month
peak of 80.67 yen that it reached last
week.
Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some
of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10
weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat
of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start
of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10
weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10
weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10
weeks, a recovery into September
of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge
of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market
peak and the beginning
of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct
of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.
During the trading session, the euro also made advances against the Japanese currency and reached a four -
week peak of 104.50 yen.
After
peaking near 1190 last
week, gold has nudged its way back down to 1165 as
of writing.
The chart below captures a fairly simple filter
of instances when the market lost 5 % or more over a 2 -
week period, from a market
peak in the prior 6
weeks (within 5 %
of the prior 52 -
week high) that was characterized by a Shiller P / E over 19, more than 50 % advisory bulls, and fewer than 25 % advisory bears.
The Australian dollar reached a
peak of US68.5 cents in early July, but then fell sharply, by around US4 cents in a little over a
week (Graphs 18 and 19).
The «canonical» market
peak typically features rich valuations, rising interest rates, often a reasonably extended and «flattish» period where, despite marginal new highs, momentum has gradually faded while internal divergences have widened, and finally, an abrupt reversal in leadership, from a preponderance
of new highs over new lows (both generally large in number) to a preponderance
of new lows over new highs, with the reversal often occurring over a period
of just a
week or two.
Prior to the advance
of recent years, the list
of these instances was: August 1929, the
week of the market
peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the
week of the market
peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the
week of the final market
peak; and July 2007, within a few points
of the final
peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the
week of that final market
peak.
Last
week, market conditions joined the same tiny handful
of extremes that defined the 1929, 1972, 1987, 2000 and 2007 market
peaks.
The S&P 500 was up over 300 points from the February and March lows largely in anticipation
of «earnings season» but in the past two
weeks, both the S&P and the NASDAQ have been hobbled by a «sell the news» behavioral quirk, which, for me, is a sure - fire signal that bigger investors are viewing Q1 / 2018 as the
peak for the business cycle.
Stock must be forming a tight base
of consolidation near its 52 -
week high, with the retracement from the high
of the base being not more than 20 % below the
peak.
HOG has trended lower since and at last
week's low, just ahead
of Tuesday morning's earnings report, had dropped over 28 % from the January
peak.