“Davidson” submits: Capital shifts globally everyday seeking the highest returns which sometimes means avoiding a perceived higher level of risk. Just as in equity and fixed income markets, capital flows always occur after events become well known. Prominent capital shifts have occurred recently in the Trade Weighted US$ and oil prices ($WTI). This is how policy changes/economic…
Four years ago, the last target-date, or lifecycle, exchange-traded funds withdrew to a rather ignominious retirement. You remember them, don’t you? They were supposed to be one-stop solutions for retirement portfolios which would dynamically allocate assets along a glide path—from higher to lower risk—as an investor aged. It’s not that there was anything inherently wrong…
US DOLLAR TO FRESH 2018 HIGHS, AGAIN The US Dollar has continued to rally and as we open Tuesday trade out of the US, the currency remains at fresh 2018 highs. We had some commentary from Fed Chair Jerome Powell earlier this morning taken from a speech in Zurich. He had a couple of interesting comments, key…
DISH Network (DISH – Free Report) is a leading satellite TV operator in the U.S. The company provides video services under the DISH brand. In addition, the company provides satellite broadband services and wireline voice and broadband services under the dishNET brand. DISH Network offers more than 150 national HD channels, local HD channels in 152 markets, and…
Simple Buy & Hold, Strategic Fixed Risk Level Allocation, Strategic Flexible Risk Level Allocation, Dynamic Tactical Risk Level Allocation. 4.5 to 10.5 years time to recover to breakeven associated with 6 example Bears. Our view of suitable allocation within Flexible Strategy. There are many types of risk when investing. Here are 10 of them: Credit…
Akcea Therapeutics (AKCA) and its controlling holder Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) are moving lower after an FDA panel posted its briefing document ahead of Thursday’s meeting to discuss Akcea’s volanesorsen. The document reads, “Despite the magnitude of the effect observed on TG, the volanesorsen review team remains uncertain whether the benefits of volanesorsen outweighs its risks,…
The Industrials Sector includes twenty-three industries all related to designing, fabricating and servicing stuff we want and use. The industrials industries range from aerospace and defense to waste management with all the transportation, business services, and equipment required in between. Today I’m reviewing a Large Cap Swedish-based Diversified Industrials firm engaged in the manufacture and…
The Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is a simple computation: You take the Civilian Labor Force (people age 16 and over employed or seeking employment) and divide it by the Civilian Noninstitutional Population (those 16 and over not in the military and or committed to an institution). The result is the participation rate expressed as…
In this past weekend’s missive, I discussed the market once again retesting support at the 200-dma. “As stated, the market did defend its 200-dma and is very close to reversing its short-term ‘sell signal.’” “That’s the good news. The not so good news is that while the market did muster a rally on Friday, it still…
The headlines say consumer credit rate of annual growth insignificantly declined from last month. Our analysis sees little change in growth since last month. Analyst Opinion of the Consumer Credit Situation There was a modest downward revision of the previous months’ data. Not only does this data set suffer from backward revision (at times moderate…
