Volatility History
Via Mike Panzner, comes this brief history of big one day VIX spikes: The Volatility Index, or VIX, closed at 18.66, for a gain of...
Apprenticed Investor: 10 Lessons Learned in the Selloff
The latest "Apprentice Investor" column is up at TheStreet.com: 10 Lessons Learned in the Selloff. The column...
Yield Curve Inversion
Anyone else notice the brief Yield Curve Inversion this week? The 10-year yield slipped below Fed Funds rate for first time since the...
Pick the Bubble: S&P500 or CRB?
I’ve previously highlighted some of the excellent technical work John Roque does. In this morning’s Up & Down Wall Street...
Fund Flows Go Defensive
We really don’t talk about fund flows very often, but last week saw moeny moving out of equities and into bonds. According to AMG...
Relative Strength as a Strategy
If you have good risk controls, and the ability to deal with lots of volatility, then relative strength has been a good strategy —...
Comparos with the 1987 Crash
Last time out on Kudlow, we were discussing the comparo’s to the 1987 Crash. Here are a few overviews (pro and con) I had liked....
Chart of the Week: Ratio of Emerging Markets to Europe/Asia
Mike Panzner observes that after nearly two years of outperformance, the MSCI Emerging markets index has broken a key uptrend relative to...
When does Risk Get Rewarded?
John Hussman of Hussman Funds writes: "Among the simplest truths is that market risk tends to be unusually rewarding when market...
Domestic vs Emerging Market Performance
Two interesting data points today on the emerging markets and overseas performance: First, a chart of Emerging Markets, to put into...