by John Coumarianos | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
“This is a capital preservation market.” So says Jeffrey Gundlach who can’t argue with anyone who wants to invest in the 2-Year U.S. Treasury, currently yielding around 2.7%. If you choose the 10-year, by contrast, and saddle yourself with 8 more years, you get less...
by Jesse Colombo | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
The much-anticipated December Fed meeting has finally come and gone, and the stock market did not like what it heard. The Fed raised rates by 0.25% and cut its expectation for 2019 rate hikes from three to two. Because the Fed didn’t sound as dovish as many investors...
by Richard Rosso | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Secular Bulls/Bears
The bullish pundits of the Twittersphere; the pros who never met a stock market they didn’t like, grow increasingly quiet at these times; or masterfully through the art of words, combined with short memories of investors and blatantly false narratives, still manage to...
by Lance Roberts | Dec 18, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Real Investment Advice
In April of 2018, I wrote an article entitled “10-Reasons The Bull Market Ended In 2018” in which I concluded: “There is a reasonably high possibility, the bull market that started in 2009 has ended. We may not know for a week, a month or even possibly a couple of...
by Jesse Colombo | Dec 18, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
With all of the incessant market gyrations this year, most traders and investors are going into the end of the year extremely confused. The simple charts I’ve been watching and showing help to make sense of the noise and show a big picture point of view. In October,...
by John Coumarianos | Dec 18, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Chances are your financial advisor believes in two related intellectual theories that you should question them about. In a recent article, the excellent columnist Brett Arends wrote about the two theories governing most financial advisors – the efficient markets...
