One of the greatest things about the financial markets is being able to invest in companies that are run by people who are experts in their area. Investors can also access strategies that are not available to individual investors, unless they have multiple millions in net assets. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment…
Emerging market equities had a dream run since the bottom in 2016 (where, if you recall, they took a pummeling as a number of EM economies went into recession, China slowed, currencies crunched, and commodities crashed). But if you look at the long term cycles of EM vs US relative performance, it appears that EM equities…
The Dividend Kings consist of companies that have raised their dividends for at least fifty years in a row. Many of the companies have turned into huge multinational corporations over the decades, but not all of them. Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMCB), which has raised its dividend for 52 years in a row, has remained…
Yesterday, I introduced you to the first of the economic Modern Family dolls. Transportation sector ETF IYT or our Trans, as mentioned, is extremely important to the macro picture. Yesterday, with IYT green, the S&P 500 recaptured the 200 DMA to enter back into an unconfirmed warning phase (improved from Distribution). It confirmed with the…
In the tit-for-tat trade war, China struck back with tariffs on Soybeans and other items. Trump imposed another $50 billion tariffs on China, as noted yesterday. Today, Beijing Hit Back at the U.S. with tariffs on an equivalent $50 billion of goods. While the Trump list would affect 1,300 categories of goods, China critically is targeting…
Thursday’s stock picks Take a look at three trading ideas to prep you for the next trading session. Long Splunk (SPLK) Long Realogy (RLGY) Short CF Industries (CF)
The ink just dried on my last Housing Market Review. In that piece I lamented the on-going lagging performance of home builders and stagnating housing data, and thus concluded that it was time to call an end to the seasonal trade on home builders. Just two days later, home builders surged upward in sympathy with a very…
U.S. equity funds witnessed outflows of about $10.3 billion in March, per an etf.com article, citing FactSet data. Investors pulled out $22.1 billion of large-cap focused funds. The outflows chart was led by SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY – Free Report) and iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV – Free Report) , which witnessed a respective $12.2 billion and…
Bitcoin along with other major cryptocurrencies erased almost all their recent gains on Wednesday, showing that the bull market is not yet strong enough to stay. The market players are eagerly waiting for a catalyst to restart the bullish trend. But they may have to wait until the key support levels are tested, and major…
Over the weekend, Barron’s wrote Tech Stocks’ Dominance Poses Risk for Investors. There were a couple of points in there to explore a little further. To the article’s title and first point, technology grew to 25% of the S&P 500 Index. Since the start of my blogging in 2004 I have been writing about how…
