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21 Aug

Criticism of Concentrated Index Risk Are Off Base

by Barry Ritholtz
Top-Heavy Stock Indexes Are Nothing to Fear It’s not rare for a small group of equities such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.com to...

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13 Aug

Ranking Covid-19 Crash in Market History

by Barry Ritholtz
How the S&P 500 Performed During Major Market Crashes Source: Visual Capitalist     I am working on a column on how...

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11 Aug

Framing Your Investments for Context & Clarity

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: JP Morgan Asset Management   The above is one of my favorite charts. This version comes from a JPM discussion on...

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5 Aug

Public to Private Equity

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has a fascinating report on reduced number of publicly traded companies, and the rise of SPACs,...

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14 Jul

75 Years of American Finance: 1861-1935

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: FRASER   This is fascinating: A year by year annotated chart, created by L. Merle Hostetler in 1936, while at Cleveland...

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17 Jun

What Drives Markets?

by Barry Ritholtz
    Down 34%, up 44%. This is a mere few months in the 2020 market. Up 10%, down 10% — thats a day or two. The...

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22 Apr

Trend Break

by Barry Ritholtz
Source:  JPMorgan     I have been showing various graphs from the Big Book of Charts – or as it is formally known, JP...

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8 Apr

Recessions, Bear Markets Need Time to Develop

by Barry Ritholtz
Is this a Dead Cat Bounce or End of the Bear market? My method for understanding which is admittedly peculiar: I concoct a novel, often...

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6 Apr

What if the Bull Market Didn’t Actually End?

by Barry Ritholtz
Michael Batnick & I discuss the possibility that the events of this spring turn out to be just a cyclical bear market within the...

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3 Apr

Succinct Summations of Week’s Events 3.3.20

by Barry Ritholtz
Succinct Summations for the week ending April 3rd, 2020 Positives: 1. 90% of the US is now under Shelter-in-Place orders, which should...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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