There has been little mystery to what has worked this year, with the Technology sector within the SP 500 up over 30% on the year and large-cap growth returning in the low 20% range, YTD. This year, not so unusually, … Continued
“Damn it – don’t ever trust your instincts” – John Cusack as Martin Blank in the all-time-great “Grosse Pointe Blank” Here is a Marketwatch article written by Mark Hulbert on Amazon. I dont know Mark, but while the article might … Continued
Everyone and their brother is commenting on q2 ’17 SP 500 earnings results, and the numbers so far look good. Revenue “upside surprise” (i.e. the revenue “beat rate”) is north of 60%, probably aided somewhat by the very weak dollar … Continued
CNBC’s Fast Money had Tom Lee on Thursday night, who I think is an outstanding strategist, and while it was a puzzling interview (Tom was positive on all the sector that were the heaviest weights in the SP 500 like … Continued
B.I.G._Tips_-_Nasdaq_100_Epic_Streak (1) With so much investment-related information data, available daily on a plethora of blogs, Twitter, not to mention the mainstream financial media, every week there is just an enormous amount of market-related data to sift through. The above chart … Continued
B_I_G_Tips_-_It_s_About_Time_-_Equities_Overtake_Treasuries (4) This blog has written many times about Bespoke’s quality research and this week Bespoke and Paul Hickey and his staff proved it once again with the above graph. The SP 500’s current bull market is 8 years old, … Continued
Having never owned the Emerging Markets (EM’s) in any form or fashion in the 1990’s and then staying out of the asset class between 2001 – 2007 given all the money that flowed into the asset class after Technology collapsed, … Continued
Investors get their first look at Technology sector earnings reports this week, with Netflix, IBM, Ebay and Qualcomm reporting by the end of the week. This last week, the SP 500 traded below it’s 50-day moving average for the first … Continued
Seth Klarman, a well-known value investor in a recent letter to clients, talked about “perilously high valuations”. In addition, we recently heard from Goldman Sachs on the downside of the so-called “Trump rally”. Here is an article from Forbes, detailing … Continued
Typically, there is always one or two data points that jump out from the Thomson or Factset earnings summaries which come out each Friday afternoon. This week, it was noted on page 5 of the Factset Earnings Insight, that Q4 … Continued