What problems keep the leader of the world’s largest mutual fund family up at night? According to Tim Buckley, the incoming CEO at Vanguard, there’s one concern above all others: Cybersecurity and...
There is no change to the risk budget this month. For the moderate risk investor, the allocation to bonds is 50%, risk assets 45% and cash 5%. The extreme overbought condition of the US stock market d...
Equities continue to reach record highs once again despite cautious positioning trend by speculators. The US dollar continues to underperform amid falling yield differentials and a growing concern of ...
A massive amount of stock market capitalization is tied up in companies based on both their potential market share and hypothetical future profits. The popular arguments in their favor come from looki...
Today we take a look at an asset that rallied almost 5% day-over-day. No, not Bitcoin (which as we are writing this is up just 3.7%), but natural gas, which is finally realizing long-range cold weathe...
Know well whom and what it is that you serve, for that is whom you will love, and eventually become. I will be leaving a bit early today to take Dolly to the veterinarian for her annual checkup. The m...
Stocks hit new all-time highs today settling right at the upper level of the expected move. Led by a big day with financials on news that the tax cut bill moved one step forward to passing. Video Le...
For the second month in a row the State Street Investor Confidence Index came in below 100 (the index uses State Street’s global custodian business to gauge investor sentiment based on exposur...
In the decade from January 2000 through December 2010, U.S. exports of oil products like gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, etc., grew by nearly 160%. The exports averaged 1.1 million barrels per day fo...
Asia responded to an uncertain US session with its own uncertainty! The Nikkei was almost unchanged despite the move back into the Yen. The currency traded back toward the 111 level but stopped shy by...