QQD News and Press, Simplify Growth Equity Plus Downside Convexity ETF From 12/19/22

Summary The adaptation and loss-and-damage topics cut straight to the scale and on-the-ground reality of climate-change impacts and the expense of addressing them. A draft of the US government’s Fifth Annual Climate Assessment found that the US, historically the biggest polluter,...

Summary The headline Flash US PMI Composite Output Index registered 44.6 in December, down from 46.4 in November. Jobs growth has meanwhile slowed to a crawl as firms across both manufacturing and services take a much more cautious approach to hiring amid a slump in customer demand. ...

Summary During Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee confab, the Fed speaks – market goes down; journalists ask questions – market goes up. The action here is being done by very sophisticated trading programs employing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. ...

Summary Stocks have been a big beneficiary of inflation due to faster sales and earnings growth. However, with rates rising 2023, growth should slow dramatically in 2023. This should result in further PE multiple compression and lower stock prices. If 2022 was about monetary p...

Summary The first move in equities (following an FOMC decision) is often the wrong move. Headline CPI was up .1% month on month recently. Our base case is that the data between now and February will continue to show a decline in headline inflation. While no one was excited...

Summary As the stock market went up the first two days of the week, more shares transacted at rising prices. A leading retail-oriented broker indicated their clients have been buying mostly corporate/municipal bonds and commodities, while selling declining US government bonds. The t...

Summary This past week, the market feigned a break out. Once the market broke back below 4034SPX, it confirmed our expectation for a pullback to a larger support region. Depending upon how the market reacts in the coming week, we may have a buying opportunity with the market pointin...

Summary The markets remain stuck in a Bearish phase. The United States Federal Reserve and the pivot to monetary tightening is a primary reason for the pessimism and despair. A series of economic and geopolitical events have helped shape this reality. Until the Fed eases and mac...

Summary October 2022 data indicates total value of goods being imported by the U.S. from China shrank year-over-year, pointing to developing weakness in the relative health of the U.S. economy. Value of U.S. exports to China was up, but has dropped to single-digit growth rates after hov...

Summary December FOMC meeting point to policymakers already starting to take a less aggressive stance to policy tightening compared to the prior four 75 basis point hikes. In line with PMI data, the latest official data signalled a slowdown in the pace of Consumer Price Inflation during...