Companies Lose Billions On Stock Buybacks I recently wrote an article about why “Benchmarking Your Portfolio Is A Losing Bet.” In that missive, I discussed all the things that benefit a mathemat...
The conundrum that everyone is wrestling with is the euro and yen’s strength given their negative interest rates and prospect for even lower interest rates. The divergence of monetary policy, ev...
V.F. Corporation (VFC) has been in business for more than 115 years and owns some of the most famous consumer apparel brands in the world (e.g. The North Face, Vans, Wrangler, Lee, etc.). Unseasonably...
The US stock market must hold this level or a bear cycle begins (and SPX for instance, would target 1500 to 1560). Here are the futures for the US stock market headliners (i.e. the indexes most people...
WTI Crude Oil prices could target $26 – $25.5. OPEC report paints a grim picture. The rally in Oil prices last week were short lived as WTI Crude Oil broke the crucial 30 – 29.5 support le...
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims The market (from Bloomberg) was expecting the weekly initial unemployment claims at 272 K to 290 K (consensus 281,000) vs the 269,000 reported. The more important (b...
The Power of the Pattern would describe a bull trend, based upon a series of higher lows and higher highs. Using this definition, the broadest of indices in the states, are “breaking 5-year rising t...
Here is this morning’s market update from JPM’s Adam Crisafulli It’s hard to imagine an uglier morning. The two things markets hate most right now (neg. central bank rates and bad ba...