The bulls and the bears continue their tug of war with the S&P 500 fluctuating around 4000 since last summer (chart). The index rebounded off its 50-dma on Friday. The 200-dma has been crawling higher since the start of this year.
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In mid-March, when the banking crisis started, the breadth of the market narrowed as evidenced by the drop in the ratio of the S&P 500 equal-weighted to market-cap-weighted indexes (chart).
![](https://www.yardeniquicktakes.com/content/images/2023/05/capture2-8.png)
The NYSE cumulative Advance/Decline Line has also remained weak since the banking crisis hit (chart).
![](https://www.yardeniquicktakes.com/content/images/2023/05/image-1.png)
Here is Joe Feshbach's latest thoughts on the market from a trading perspective: