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Each and every day the markets are swayed by what the politicians are doing, and what they are likely to do. The participants in the markets stand back, look around, and then place their bets. The easiest response is to have additional cash. Except that cash now yields nothing, an...

I have been advising for months to be cautious. Money traditionally earmarked for bonds has now been flowing into equities. My suggestions are an extra amount of cash, possibly some puts, taking some equity profits, considering outsized dividends which can be found, with a good am...

While the market is working off some of the more extreme overbought conditions, it remains 2-standard deviations above its 200-week (4-Year) moving average. There can be no such thing as hubris when investments do not go the way you want them. Applying a technical overly to determ...

The global market is in the early recovery phase of the business cycle following the COVID-19 recession. This implies an extended period of low-inflation, low-interest-rate growth - an environment that usually favors equities over bonds. But after such a rapid rebound, an equity market pu...

Existing home sales have an impact on the economy but it is mostly in the form of sales of home goods - refrigerators, washers, dryers, and furniture, etc. Housing is going gangbusters right now, but for it to really impact the economy it will have to continue for a while. 10-year...

I am hopeful that there won't be a major second wave of infections, but I believe there is a good possibility that there will be one. But if most countries are able to avoid wide-scale lockdowns, the negative impact to the global economy should be relatively low, in my view. The stock...

The U.S. election result is set to have big implications for markets as U.S. fiscal stimulus, public investment, taxation, regulation and foreign affairs could shift. The activity restart is running ahead of expectations in developed markets, albeit at different paces as virus dynamic...

I think risk assets sell off further. The dollar has further upside. As far as bond yields go, I think they will do more or less nothing. For further details see: Watching, Waiting

The NASDAQ Composite Index broke a three-week losing streak gaining 1.1% last week while the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended losses for the fourth straight week. The main contributors to the recent pullback in the markets are last week’s announcement t...

For 94 years, the "average, annual" return for large-cap stocks, which per the Ibbotson data is the S&P 500, is above 10%, and probably closer to 12%. The only return period that matched or roughly approximates the 103-year average, annual return for the S&P 500 is the decade ...