SCHX News and Press, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap From 02/10/23

Summary Fed anticipates job losses and they usually cut as the job market is transitioning from job creation to job loss. Housing is the most interest rate-sensitive part of the economy. If the Fed needs to hike more than what’s being anticipated that higher dividend will hel...

Summary A mild recession is coming in the US. Unemployment and migration trends are shifting. How will these factors play out across different states and regions? In 2022, 28 states registered a record low unemployment rate, as demographic trends and pandemic-related disruptions continu...

Summary Since 1973, there have been 7 recessions and heavy truck sales fell before each one with a lead time of about 13 months. In the ’73 and ’90 recessions, sales didn’t fall quite 25% prior to recession. Right now, both real and nominal interest rates are st...

Summary Over the past couple of months, we have seen a clear downtrend emerge in the coincident measure of economic growth, suggesting we are on the path to recession. Inflation is also clearly rolling over. However, this is not the case within the labour market nor the services sector,...

Summary HNDL has a balanced equity and fixed income investments portfolio, and has a pre-fixed target rate of payouts, sustainability of which is questionable. During the past six months, all of HNDL’s fixed income ETFs failed to generate positive price growth. Price returns of i...

Summary In examining the terms growth and value, I now recognize that the two labels should not be given to stocks, but to periods of time when a company is experiencing growth or value. For those of us emotionally connected with stock market prices, there is a tendency to label a ...

Summary The transmission mechanism for higher rates to work on the economy would be through borrowing and lending. A reacceleration in NGDP could just mean an acceleration in real growth. Small caps have outperformed large caps since mid-March 2020 but the ride has been bumpier than...

Summary The most recent NFIB (National Federation Of Independent Business) is sending a strong signal of an economic recession. In 2019, the NFIB survey, combined with an inverted yield curve, suggested an impending recession. In 2020, those signals became a reality. As in 2019...

Summary The 2021-2022 episode turned out to be very different from the economic turmoil that bedeviled the U.S. economy from the 1960s into the early 1980s. Changes in relative prices can be either the result of changes in the average price level, or the cause of such changes. The o...

Summary A big contributing factor to the surge in inflation was the spike in consumer spending. Healthy GDP growth, generationally low unemployment, and relatively stable earnings all point to a stable economy. While the future always remains unclear, nobody knows for certain whethe...