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By Anwiti Bahuguna First, supply was the concern. Now demand is dropping - and recession risks are clearly elevated. When the news of the novel coronavirus first began to emerge from China, economic analysis was generally focused on the disruption of supply chains and the effect on com...

Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark yo...

"Tops are a process, and bottoms are an event" Over the last couple of years, we have discussed the ongoing litany of issues that plagued the underbelly of the financial markets. The "corporate credit" markets are at risk of a wave of defaults. Earnings estimates for 2019 fell ...

Headlines: +273,000 jobs added. U3 unemployment rate declined -0.1% to 3.5%. U6 underemployment rate rose 0.1% to 7.0%. Leading employment indicators of a slowdown or recession I am highlighting these because many leading indicators overall have strongly suggested that an employm...

" When it comes to investing, it's a losing proposition to try and be anything better than average. If there's no point in trying to beat the market through 'active' investing - using mutual funds that managers run, selecting what they hope are market-beating investments - what is the best ...

Starting valuations make a big difference when forecasting long-term equity index returns. In the near term, not so much. Take these charts of the S&P 500 Index. Intuitively, we know lower valuations tend to be associated with higher returns. Over 1-year return periods, the R2 between ...

By David Aurelio As COVID-19 spreads, should investors expect to see an impact to 20Q1 earnings expectations? S&P 500 year-over-year (Y/Y) 20Q1 earnings growth estimates have fallen to 1.6% from 5.4% on January 31, 2020, and StarMine models from Refinitiv suggest that more downward rev...

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The expression “ There is no crying over spilled milk even if it isn’t spilled quite yet " begins to capture the dilemma of what to do in the wake of the coronavirus. The coronavirus wave may still be on its way, we are not yet fully in its "wake." It may not have fully was...

We think the US financial system still suffers from the same structural weaknesses as it did in 2008. These weaknesses are: Perverse incentives (investors making bets with other people's money avoiding negative consequences when these bets go wrong, central banks forced to interventions in...