PSQ News and Press, ProShares Short QQQ From 10/08/22

Summary Markets seesaw on conflicting economic signals. Is a recession possible in the U.S. in the next 12 months? Q3 earnings season outlook. On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist for North America, Paul Eitelman, and Sophie Ant...

Summary Congressional insider trading is a rare topic in U.S. politics which led to bipartisan support in limiting the ability of lawmakers to participate in securities trading. As the nature of their service makes them privy to information not ordinarily accessible to the public,...

Summary The Bureau of Economic Analysis weighed in on the discussion yet again last week with the release of the Third Estimate for Q2 2022 real GDP. According to the BEA, GDI is defined as a measure of the incomes earned and the costs incurred in the production of gross domestic ...

Summary The slowdown in US economic growth has yet to reach a tipping point that marks the start of recession. The availability of published data to date provides only a partial profile for August and September. The economic updates over the coming weeks will be critical for d...

Summary The new regime poses an unavoidable trade-off for central banks: tame inflation by hiking or preserve growth. We see them overtightening rates, so keep risk low. UK gilt yields reached 14-year highs before the Bank of England intervened to halt the selloff. Yields on 10-ye...

Summary What's Working this Week are funds that bet against the market and biotech; What's Not Working is Everything Else. Macroeconomics are Coloring All Financial Markets. When to Sell a Stock: A Case Study in NVDA. Brian Dress, CFA -- Director of Research, Inves...

Summary As the Federal Reserve continues reiterating a more aggressive monetary policy stance, analysts are finally shifting from a “slow growth” to a “mild recession” view. Investing during a recession is difficult. The recession could be worse tha...

Summary Both PSQ and QID allow you to short the NASDAQ-100 or obtain gains that are the inverse of QQQ but at varying degrees. These short ETFs feed on volatility, which has become the new constant as I elaborate upon in this thesis. Still, it is important to be careful when u...

Summary We believe it is unlikely that Fed Chair Jerome Powell will navigate a pivot to a less-hawkish stance before early in 2023. We expect China to grow at a meager 2%-3% pace in 2022, with the potential for these risks to bleed into 2023, as a slowing developed-market consumer...

Summary There are some important financial implications to below-trend economic growth. If inflation remains high, interest rates will adjust, triggering a debt crisis as servicing requirements increase and defaults rise. Most of the aggregate growth in the economy was finance...