In the 1800s, when stock market indices were first introduced, they covered railroads and industrials. That was it — a 2 sector...
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Succinct Summations for the week ending January 4th, 2018 Positives: 1. Total non-farm payrolls increased by 312k m/o/m, much greater...
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One good thing we can say about market volatility is that the 20 percent sell off in stock prices since Q4 began have returned valuations...
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Succinct Summations for the last week of the year, ending December 28th, 2018 Positives: 1. Indices rally 4-5% on Wednesday off of deeply...
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Succinct Summations for the week ending December 21st, 2018 Positives: 1. Corporate profits increase 6.1% y/o/y, up from previous 5.9%...
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I lover this kind of graphic (via@JBoorman). Its so telling as to the why forecasting can be so damaging to the psyches of...
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2019 Forecast: Predictions Will Be Wrong, Random or Worse Every year, the prognosticators come out of hiding. You have to wonder why they...
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Yahoo notes this is “S&P 500 returns measured from each presidential election day to the next presidential election...
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Succinct Summations for the week ending November 30th, 2018 Positives: 1. Home mortgage applications rose a seasonally adjusted 9.0%...
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Succinct Summations for the week ending November 23rd, 2018 Positives: 1.Existing home sales came in at an annualized rate of 5.220M for...
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