Market Digest: MKL, ASH, CNC, EXPE, MCK, OXY, AWK, CBOE, HUBS

Summary

With all things viewed in context, insider-sentiment data from Vickers Stock Research is ‘better’ this week than in other recent weeks. The sell/buy ratios from Vickers this week are indeed vastly improved over the last few weeks. The NYSE One-Week Sell/Buy Ratio is now 4.04, a big improvement from 11.00 last week and 11.87 the week before that. On the Nasdaq, the one-week reading is now 3.39 and compares very favorably with a 10.53 result recorded three weeks ago, as the Nasdaq had soured a week before the NYSE. So the trend is good, but, contextually, the ratios are still not clearly bullish – just a lot less bearish. Drilling down, the number of insider sell transactions grew higher still this week, with a 20% increase in sales compared to last week. But, in a positive offset, the number of purchase transactions also popped — and by 161%. End of day, insiders seem less panicky than they did a few weeks ago – and that that seems to align with the mood of investors in general. But let’s not forget that, in context, the S&P 500 closed last week at a level that is still 323 points below where it was in mid-July. On a sector basis, sell

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