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Vix spikes as volatility rattles the Dow. The advantage of using options strategies when markets turn volatile. How investors can use sector rotations. For further details see: Navigating Market Uncertainty And Higher Volatility

Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...

We’ve moved past the early-cycle environment that predominated risk taking in 2020, post the pandemic lows, and we’re moving really into a mid-cycle environment, which tends to be constructive for risk. This mid-cycle environment is still going to be expansionary, albeit...

Growth-oriented asset classes are likely to shine, but not equally. Above-trend growth is a supportive environment of risky assets like equities or credit. On valuation grounds, equities are looking a little cheaper. Geraldine Sundstrom and Erin Browne discuss PIMCO’s views...

It would be normal for markets to go sideways over the summer months, especially considering the fast spread of the Covid Delta variant, and more cases globally. Other obvious triggers for a consolidation would be a more aggressive signaling for a change in Fed policy, which is unlike...

A majority of BlackRock investors in a recent survey felt that inflation would be transitory. Yet, they also felt the market might overreact to the inflation data, making some portfolio protection prudent. Economically sensitive cyclical stocks have had a very strong run since the ann...

Strategas Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Research Tom Tzitzouris breaks down the recent action in the bond market. He hits on the hotter-than-expected inflation data, the Fed’s actions, and his outlook for interest rates. He also discusses another headwind appro...

It is impossible to avoid all risks. I attempt to identify as many risks as possible and manage these risks by addressing them. All assets have embedded risks, whether we can identify them or not. Should one invest in growth or value? In examining eleven time periods, the average grow...

The first two weeks in July is the best two-week period of the year historically for stocks. The issue, or the important signal, to note would be if markets did not go higher at the beginning of the quarter. The market passed the first two weeks in July test - barely. The S&P 500 ...

A series of new all-time index highs but no popping of corks. A flight to safety goes on under the surface - a 1.25% yield on the 10-year Treasury July 7, coupled with a "risk-off" 7% drop in the Russell 2K since July 1. Are we headed for an economic slowdown or recession? This qu...