4/28/2025
By Charles Payne CEO & Principal Analyst

I have to say there are a few things I love more than negative headlines and articles in The Economist.  Once a top periodical for me, now I only find value in their obituaries (great biographical information often on forgotten but instrumental people). They are laying it on thick and maybe getting desperate as extreme fear has eased into middling fear.

It's not alone in its campaign of fear-mongering, which I suspect will become desperate in its efforts to talk down the market this week.

Good news will be bad news, and bad news will end the world.

But keep watching the stock market, key indicators, and other developments. For instance, according to the Daily Chartbook, the Volatility Index (VIX) round-trip from above 50 to below 25 has only happened twice before.

• 2008 – 2009 (market bottom start of the secular bull market) 284 sessions.
• 2020 took 88 sessions.
• 2025 took just 12 sessions.

Bullish Signs & Trends

It wasn’t just the monster reversal in the ‘fear index’ that belied the notion that the world had ended.  Again, this goes back to two principles of investing.

• Don’t fight the Fed.
• Don’t fight the tape.

The market saw its second four-day winning session this year. Usually, these kinds of observations are trivial, but the fact that the moves last week were robust shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. This is especially true after an effort was made to erase the spike from the 90-day tariff pause announcement.

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Charles Payne
Wall Street Strategies

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