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The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that seasonally adjusted U.S. real GDP grew at a 6.5% annual rate in Q2. That’s well above the 3.1% average growth that the U.S. experienced over 1947-2019. The Q2 growth puts the level of GDP at a new high, 0.8% above the peak that was...
Real gross domestic product increased at a 6.5 percent annualized rate in Q2, up from a 6.3 percent pace in Q1. Real final sales to private domestic purchasers, a key measure of private domestic demand, rose at a very robust 9.9 percent annualized rate in Q2 following an 11.8 percent ...
With earnings season in full gear and broad equity markets reaching record levels, we revisit valuation and put into context the relative value midstream offers during the ongoing economic recovery. As of last Friday, the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index (AMZI) and the Alerian Midstre...
Record low real yields across the world betray an exceptional degree of macro angst. Or do they? Don’t look at rates in isolation. Other markets are fine. The tide of central bank purchases lifts all boats, and normal liquidity conditions will only return at the end of the ...
Recently, downticks in Treasury yields are being met with selling pressure in value indexes and stocks. The stock market can’t make up its mind. Does it want high yields or low yields? This confusion is because inflation numbers are rising and interest rates are falling, which ...
The biggest beneficiary of the Covid-19 Delta variant fear is bond yields, since the 10-year Treasury bond decisively “cracked” the 1.2% level last week and actually hit a low of 1.133% on Tuesday. This means that either inflation fears are ebbing or there is a flight to qua...
Around the world, we are told that prices and sentiment are changing in an unexpected way. In scanning the present scene, I see lots of issues that should be reviewed, both in terms of numbers as well as structural concerns. Following the principle of winning by not losing, I sugg...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 1000 points at the low Monday and closed down 725, a loss of a little over 2%. The S&P 500 did a little better but closed down 1.5%. The markets rose through the rest of the week and ended on a high note. So, you got your chance to ...
The best investing advice that we could give back in May was to “Sell in May and go away”. That advice really means to get your exposure smaller and do nothing. That served us well this past Monday as the Dow Jones fell over 700 points and then spent the rest of the week...
Strategas Technical Strategist Todd Sohn takes us through how to think about the current market environment, what sectors his team is watching, and the tricky US dollar. This is still a trend-driven market, not a momentum-driven one. It’s a more selective, slightly weaker marke...
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Direxion Closing Four ETFs Closures Due to Limited Interest Since Launch PR Newswire NEW YORK , Aug. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Due to the their inability to attract sufficient investment assets, the Board of Trustees of the Direxion Shares ETF Trust has d...