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It is not a prerequisite that an overwhelming majority of the country approve of the president for US equities to go up. It’s no secret that the US equity market has historically performed best with a divided government. This election is about who’s going to be the n...

This is a weekly series focused on analyzing the previous week’s economic data releases. The objective is to concentrate on leading indicators of economic activity to determine whether the economy is strengthening or weakening, and whether the rate of inflation is increasing or...

Election results vs. COVID-19 developments: Which could move markets more? Is China’s economic recovery in full swing? Preliminary results from Q3 earnings season. For further details see: How The U.S. Elections Could Impact Markets

The next couple of weeks will be crucial to how we end the year in financial markets and investors are standing by, waiting to respond. It's deal making time, with months - or in the UK's case, years - of negotiations coming to a head as the clock ticks down. The US election is in...

A most pivotal election is now only 10 days away. Odds have tanked for stimulus legislation to be wrapped up prior the election. The system has commenced a grand experiment in New Massive deficit spending. This fiscal experiment follows on the heels of the Fed's decade-long QE...

This is probably the first recession that inflated rather than popped financial asset bubbles. Panicked governments and central banks are dumping trillions of play-money dollars into the system, a big part of which flow directly into the brokerage accounts of the 1%. Another effec...

What the VIX futures are telling us. What the market is telling us about election expectations. Using options to take advantage of market uncertainties. For further details see: Capitalizing On Market Uncertainties

Historical data on average one-year, five-year and fifteen-year returns for the S&P 500 since 1871, with all dividends continuously reinvested. Historical data on the range of returns for one-year, five-year and fifteen-year holding periods. History’s shocking surprise ...

In response to the global COVID-19 recession, central banks across the world unleashed synchronized monetary stimulus to backstop the economy. With the lack of inflation pressure, and higher tolerance for inflation overshoots, central banks globally are likely to keep interest rates l...

Investors whose sole focus is on returns fail because they don’t structure a portfolio that properly accounts for risk. Growth in America has been going down over time, due in part to both demographics and regulation; going forward, we’re unlikely to see GDP numbers abov...