My Market Risk Indicator is signalling today. That means I add a mid term volatility hedge to the Volatility Hedged portfolio and the Long/Short hedged portfolio. The Long/Cash portfolio goes 100% to cash. The portfolio allocations are as follows: Long/Cash portfolio: 100%
October 12, 2018
Here’s the difference between a recession and a depression: you can’t get blood from a stone, or make an insolvent entity solvent with more debt. There are two basic differences between a recession and a depression: Duration: a recession typically
The BLS says the energy index declined 0.5 percent in September, but the price of crude rose. Overall the CPI rose 0.1%. Earlier today the BLS reported a 0.5% surge in import prices that was fuel-related. The import price for
While so many are wondering if the stock market bounce today will hold, they might want to look to Germany for clues to where stocks in the states could be headed in the near future. The chart looks at the DAX
NZD/USD is a classic “risk-on” currency pairing. While the pair actually rose by about 50 pips over the last two days (primarily due to weakness in greenback), it remains in a longer-term downtrend defined by a 6-month bearish channel. Video
What we are currently seeing in the market is a symptom of a whole lot of leverage in equities that had been in rich territory at a time when, even though it is still moving along, signs abound that the
Most people have, at one point in their lives, dreamed or thought about being rich, and all the benefits being rich would bring. Yet most people don’t really have to become rich as one of their investment goals, they rather
There’s no question that the U.S. economy is undergirded by consumer spending. As much as 70 percent of domestic GDP is attributed to personal consumption. So, when the consumer sector sneezes, the economy inevitably catches a cold. Welcome to flu
Support is now resistance. Just breathtaking.
Heightened volatility has once again shaken the stock market badly and pushed all major indices deep in red to start the final quarter of 2018. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), also known as the fear gauge, jumped to more than
