Today I want to discuss reports that global debt levels are at all-time highs, and what this means for your investment decisions going forward. But first, a few comments about last week. I recently re...
In the first half of the year, the market rally came from FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) with most other areas only experiencing moderate advances. That’s changed. All major market indexes...
The headline existing home sales growth slowed with the authors saying “Closings were down in most of the country last month because interested buyers are being tripped up by supply that remains...
In a recent Bloomberg article, Noah Smith celebrates the increasing trend of empirical work in economics over the years. Purely theoretical papers are on the decline as a share of all published work...
Biotech ETFs Dominate Rankings Again Biotech ETFs continue to dominate momentum rankings in our ETF rankings system. The latest weekly rankings are shown below as WkBk0. They represent closing prices ...
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do madam?” – Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes, Paul Samuelson? The CFA Institute’s second quarter 2017 Financial Analysts Jour...
YOU have just become the big winner of the latest reshuffle of White House personnel. No, this is not the result of your own Machiavellian skills in intrigue, backstabbing, and betrayal. You have ME...
IIlinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), a manufacturer and seller of industrial products and equipment worldwide founded in 1912 and based in Glenview, Illinois posted a favorable Q2 fiscal report this mor...
Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) has received a good deal of positive press for its performance off the 2016 lows. No doubt it has done well, as it is up around 50% off the lows of last year, while the S&a...
It’s been clear for years that excessive and prolonged central bank accommodation has paradoxically served to create a disinflationary impulse in some sectors of the economy. Nowhere is this more r...