…great success. I want to thank everyone for coming and said that I would post my 2017 forecasts shortly, which I intend to do this week, starting today. We don’t…
…bonds both rose at the same time and wondered whether that was common or not. The scatterplot shows the daily return of stocks and bonds each day that both markets…
…not a fair comparison because they aren’t on an apples-to-apples basis. We must look at the muni bonds adjusted to pre-tax levels for a true comparison. We could look at…
…chuckled because they pointed out that market returns reflect what society wants, and companies respond by providing those goods and services. Beer and smokes – that’s what America has valued…
…in the coming years. A number of sectors and industries saw dramatic changes, from the -10 to -25 percent losses in hospital stocks to the sharp gains in banks, biotech,…
…demand for basic materials like aluminum and steel. As housing has slowed there, demand for commodities has dropped, which we can see in the current commodities bust. The good news,…
…(with 98 percent of companies reporting). Like a stock market chart, there is a massive drop during the 2008 crisis, although this one is much worse since operating earnings went…
…this renewed optimism in the markets is a result of booming economic data? Um… unfortunately, not. Economic production has slowed throughout the quarter, furthering a trend that began in late…
…large weight to technology stocks. At the peak, technology stocks were 65 percent of the index. The weight has come down to 43 percent, but that’s still more than double…
…fundamental proposition, but I REALLY like to read articles where the premise completely contradicts my view, or the view of Acropolis. This article falls in the second category since we…
