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A Year to Remember Almost everything went up in 2019, with very few red spots. For example: Major currencies like the European ( VGK , EZU , HEDJ , FEZ , IEUR , BBEU , IEV ) Euro ( FXE ), Japanese ( EWJ , DXJ ) Yen ( FXY ), or Chinese ( MCHI , FXI ) Yuan that surrendered to the s...

"The stock market has predicted nine of the past five recessions" - Paul Samuelson Significant equity market drawdowns have not always been followed by a fundamental confirmation in form of a recession. Paul Samuelson, among others, recognized this empirical fact long ago. However, a few...

Let's begin the new year by looking at the summation of global economic events from the OECD (emphasis added): For the past two years, global growth outcomes and prospects have steadily deteriorated, amidst persistent policy uncertainty and weak trade and investment flows. We now estimat...

The energy sector posted a gain during the final quarter of 2019. In Q4, energy commodities rebounded by 3.38%. In 2019, the sector was 15.11% higher than at the end of 2018. WTI and Brent crude oil posted significant gains on the year, but the prices had declined to low levels at the end of...

As the end of 2019 approaches, the crude oil market looks set to post an impressive percentage gain for the year. On December 31, 2018, nearby NYMEX crude oil futures closed at $45.81 per barrel. At around $61.70 on December 27, the price of the energy commodity was 34.7% higher on the year. ...

Similar to the U.S. golf team which has been dominating the international team with a 20-year winning streak in the Presidents Cup , the U.S. stock market, based on the S&P 500 ( SPY ) as the benchmark, has likewise outperformed the rest of the world almost year after year since 2000. Ind...

THE PROCESS A quick note on process before diving into the analysis. My benchmark - and I believe everyone's benchmark whether they admit it or not - is the S&P 500 (SPX), so my process starts with developing a duration-agnostic outlook for the SPX. (By duration-agnostic I mean conditi...

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( Pexels/Artem Beliaikin ) The 2010s have been marked by one dominating theme for global equity investors, the consistent outperformance of U.S. stocks compared to just about all other countries. Just as the popularity of international investing took off in the late (pre-crash) 2000s, the al...

Foreword In a special double issue, December 2019, Fortune published its Investor's Guide 2020 featuring 40 stocks for the new decade: “ The companies that are going to outperform the market aren’t big enough to offset the companies that are going to underperform.”...