Higher Unemployment Level As Some States Are Slower To Reopen
Improvement is being made in the job market as the continuing claims data and unemployment rate continue to decline. In addition to the continuing claims…
Individual Investor Sentiment Not Matching Actions
The American Association of Individual Investor's Sentiment Survey release for the week ending 9/23/2020 showed bullish investor sentiment fell 7.1 percentage…
Here We Go Again: Value To Finally Outperform Growth?
So far for most of the month of September, the large cap value stock space has outperformed large cap growth. Since the end of the financial crisis of 2008…
The first two days of September saw the S&P 500 Index get off to a nice positive start, up 2.29% on a price only basis. Since then though the market has…
Small Business Optimism, And Importantly Hiring Plans, Remains Favorable
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for August was reported at 100.2, which is a 1.4 increase over July's reading. The NFIB report notes seven of the 10…
There are times when I write a blog article and I remind readers the stock market and the economy are not the same. By that, I mean the stock market sometimes…
Stock Prices Reflecting A Resumption In Earnings Growth
One factor about the equity market is its movements are often influenced by expectations. Economic news that is reported better than those expectations can…
This year has not been a good one for the Dogs of the Dow strategy. A number of reasons can be cited, like energy sector weakness and both Chevron (CVX) and…
With over 15 million individuals unemployed based on Thursday's jobs report and an additional 10.7 million individuals receiving Pandemic Unemployment…
As is said from time to time, a picture is worth a thousand words and one simply needs to look at mutual fund and ETF flows to see the truth behind the…
Summer 2020 Investor Letter: A "V-Shaped" Market Recovery
The speed of the market decline in the first quarter was unprecedented and the ensuing recovery in the second quarter was as impressive as the gut-wrenching…
The "V-shaped" Recovery Continues: Now It Is The ISM PMI and Non-Manufacturing Index
I have noted in a few recent posts that much of the economic data being reported is recovering in a "V-shaped" manner. In other words the economic rebound…
