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Almost to the Bottom I find it helpful to compare everything to the Great Financial Crisis. Most everyone reading this remembers it well, and until now it was the worst economic disaster of our lives. As far as jobs are concerned, we still have a little ways to go to get back to the worst o...
Overview: The capital markets are looking for fresh directional cues after last week's equity declines and seeming reversal in the US dollar. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 1.6% last week, its largest drop since April. Markets in the region were mixed, with Japan, Taiwan, and especially Ch...
PMI and ISM Manufacturing Indices The improvement in Markit’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index continued in August, rising from 50.9 to 53.6, as new order growth was fueled by exports. The rest of the world opened up before we did, and the sharp increase in exports reflects ...
I'm perplexed by the disconnect between the US stock market and the economy. Why does the stock market keep going up? Two explanations are common - (1) Hopium is the hope that the recovery will be swift and thorough, and (2) FOMO is fear of missing out. In other words, hope and greed. In an ...
The continued good news in this Thursday morning's jobless claims report is that the trend of "less worse" news is intact. But the improvement has slowed dramatically and is still at a level of about 150,000 higher than the worst weekly levels of the Great Recession. On a non-seasonally adju...
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This week, Adam D. Koós, CFP®, CMT® fills the podcast with a rapid-fire update on the stock market, economy, the upcoming Presidential Election, and more! Original Read more ...
We have a light economic calendar and a holiday-shortened week. The NFIB small business report is interesting, as is the continuing information on jobless claims. There will be plenty of political news of course, but market attention will be focused on this novel idea that markets can move d...
Investing is a process requiring a long-term perspective while recognizing that market corrections can always occur. We pride ourselves on correctly identifying long term investable trends and investing accordingly. The pundits, however, turn on a dime, following the market, rather than antici...
“Drunkenness is not romantic; it's a form of temporary insanity. And hangovers are the body's way of asking, 'What were you thinking?” ― Susan J. Anderson It has taken a while but even the hardcore skeptics now realize it wasn't a summer season where we “Sell ...