Always grateful when the thoughtful and measured Jeff Miller, the author of one of Seeking Alpha’s more popular weekly columns, “Weighing the Week Ahead” mentions this blog in the weekly market recap. Jeff writes a very thorough piece – that … Continued
Every 6 weeks the goal is to give readers an update into the various “style box” strategies (large-cap, mid-cap, small-cap, value, growth, etc.) and year-to-date as of Friday, February 16th, 2018, 2018 has started just where 2017 left off … Continued
Supposedly, the old-school Sicilian Mafia have an old saying, “the snake lays coiled in Napoli” which supposedly means that in older Italy, when the Mafioso ran the country and the Mafia power centers were split between Sicily and Naples, the … Continued
Looking at the “weekly” chart of the TNX, the CBOE 10-year Treasury Yield Index, Id say the 10-year Treasury yield is at a critical level. A trade much lower in yield toward 2% and I’d say that the uptrend … Continued
The big news this week was the Treasury market and the rise in yields, but more on that in a minute. With 488 companies having reported Q4 ’16 earnings already, there is little left to know, and instead we look … Continued
At a CFA Chicago lunch about a week ago, Charlie Evans, Head Fed-head at the Chicago Federal Reserve here in the Windy (and balmy) City, talked about how the Fed plans to shrink the $4.5 trillion Fed balance sheet down … Continued
Many of the pundits around today, probably don’t remember when the fed funds rate was 15%, the Prime Rate was 20% and the 30-year Treasury would fluctuate from 8% to 15% in one year alone, as it did in 1980. … Continued
Readers will kept abreast of sector changes and such over the next 6 weeks of the quarter, but really all eyes should be on 2017 SP 500 earnings estimates and the potential impact from not just personal tax rate reductions, … Continued
Jeff Gundlach, the “new” media-appointed Bond King in the last year, (and Jeff has made some good calls) who runs his own bond firm, DoubleLine Capital, was on CNBC yesterday (11/11/16) and weighed in on all things political, economic and … Continued
“One Guy” – listening to the Delivering Alpha conference this week with one ear, doing some spreadsheet work, I was really struck by the gloom and doom of just about everyone at the conference. It was depressing to listen to … Continued