…companies by where their revenue is earned. For example, the top 10 holdings of the China index includes several US companies like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Yum Brands (parent company…
…dividend. Last year, the companies in the S&P 500 earned $893.0 billion. Of those as reported earnings, those companies paid out $311.8 billion in cash dividends and spent $475.6 billion…
…that characterized last week’s sharp daily losses may be over. My view of the recent market selloff has two components. First, as I outlined on last Monday, February 5th (click…
…dealt with, so his employer, Allianz Bank, was preparing to offer him a retirement package or the door and when Gross found out, he effectively said, ‘You can’t fire me…
…it over time. Of course, it’s unclear what will happen in the coming days, both in Greece and in global financial markets. In theory, everyone is prepared for a Greek…
…that he thought a hike was still in order this year. While that was softer than his previous comments about a September hike, his comments didn’t leave much room for…
Today I attended a session on Contrarian Value Investing. During the speakers prepared remarks I began to think about whether our investment philosophy here at Acropolis could be characterized as…
…and -0.5 (the higher line with the bigger hook). I used 0.5 and -0.5 because those are the ranges from the chart above. I could have made the second chart…
…spot before SVBs failure because of their dual mandate: stable prices and maximum sustainable employment. The Fed wanted to make sure that inflation was truly slayed and reduce the risk…
…I’ve compared it to the S&P 500 in gray since that’s what we all anchor around (rightly or wrongly). But there’s a third line, in orange, that shows what we…
