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Market Review & Recap Over the last couple of weeks, we discussed the "wild swings " in the market in terms of price movements from overbought, to oversold, and now back again. The quote below is from two week's ago but is apropos again this week. "Despite the underlying economi...

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It's amusing to us to listen to the pundits/experts shifting their views almost daily staying one step behind the markets. Forbes wrote an article about us on August 14, 1995 titled "Looking Beyond the Valley" in which we discussed our methodology to successfully invest which has been influenc...

The Fed hiked rates four times in 2018, and the current fed funds rate target range is at 2.25%-2.50%. Though amid weakening economic conditions, both globally and domestically, the Fed has paused with further rate hikes. Given that the economy has not shown much improvement lately, market par...

The BCI at 249.2 is below last week's 249.9, and remains below this business cycle’s peak as indicated by the BCIp at 80.3. Also, the 6-month smoothed annualized growth BCIg at 9.5 is below last week’s 10.1. Both BCIp and BCIg are not signaling a recession. (BCIp needs to drop be...

A little over one month ago, I penned a research note titled, " Bonds Are Saying Something - We Should Be Listening ," in which I gave a comprehensive analysis of interest rates and discussed the opposing messages in the stock market and the bond market. While some readers took this anal...

QT. Bank reserves. Balance sheet normalization. They really are going through all the motions in 2019. It's as if officials can sense something just isn't quite right. This would amount to a serious setback, of course, having assured the public repeatedly how the financial system has been rema...

Today North American yields are slightly higher as stocks rebound. But one day does not a trend reverse, and overall, the Canadian 10-year Treasury yield has declined (as bond prices have risen) from 2.6% in October to 1.96% on December 31 and 1.75% today. As shown below in my partner Cory V...

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The Weekly Grind podcast is designed to wake up your investment brain with weekly overviews of financial markets and other economic-related topics. Episode 3 Market Review, Stock Ideas, and The Weekly Rant: Market Forecasting Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article w...