Winding your way down on Baker Street Light in your head and dead on your feet Well, another crazy day You'll drink the night away And forget about everything This city desert makes you feel so cold It's got so many people, but it's got no soul And it's taken you so long To find […]
These last two weeks saw stocks storm the castle ramparts. Elude the archers. Scale the walls and wrest control from the bears. By week's end, former record highs were conquered. With bulls establishing camp upon the newly taken plateaus of all-time highs. As equities forged ahead. Endeavoring to unite all asset classes and establish peace […]
Yin and yang. All things serving as inseparable and contradictory opposites. Preserving the greater balance of the universe and symmetry in all things. Male and female. Dark and light. Old and Young. Q4 2018 and Q1 2019. The last six months have represented an extraordinary cycle. A really bad quarter (Q4 ) followed by a […]
During 2016's election, Senator Bernie Sanders fueled his candidacy by feeding a bill of goods to young people. Cynically capitalizing on their lack of knowledge and life experience. And hinting at utopian promises that the nation was in no position to deliver. In so doing, Sanders secured roughly 84 percent of the thirty-and-under vote in […]
Like a teenager's allowance, Q1 came and went. What a quarter it was! Following Q4's equity rout during which the S&P 500 lost 16 percent, Q1 calmed an angst-ridden global investment community. Turning in the best Q1 stock-market performance in a decade. Equities were revivified by signs that inflationary pressures remained contained. Because lower inflation […]
Last week's missive featured the first of two installments detailing this year's potentially market-moving issues and events. Providing analysis of ongoing domestic economic and political issues that could move the market winds (here). This week, we broaden our perspective. Moving overseas to consider the regions, issues and events that may influence investment markets before 2021. […]
The S&P 500 rose 0.62 percent over last week's holiday-shortened trading week. Aside from biotech and energy, everything ended higher. Utilities, precious metals, small and mid-caps led the way. The S&P 500 has risen 11.4 percent for the year. Among its better starts in decades. Meanwhile, the DJIA notched its ninth-straight weekly gain. Returning 16 […]
Renown wild man and physicist Richard Feynman said, "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry." Traditionally woven by hand on a loom, a tapestry comprises innumerable threads that, though individually hidden in the completed work, aggregate to […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed earlier losses Friday afternoon. Propelling the index to its seventh consecutive weekly gain. A sign of the stock market's resilience. Even in the face of heightened uncertainty. The index surged in the final 10 minutes of the session to secure a 0.2 percent gain for the week -- its […]
In ancient China, a respected military strategist wrote a book in which he infused his lifetime of expertise. General Sun Tzu's Art of War became a manual on aligning aspirations with capabilities. The strategist set forth principles, selected for their validity across space and time, and then connected them to practices, bound by time and […]
