Tag: financial markets
2022 Financial Markets Outlook Faces Several Headwinds
The first part of our 2022 outlook looks through the front windshield and contrasts 2021s tailwinds with 2022s growing headwinds. While no one knows...
2020 Financial Markets… the Worst & Best of Times
2020… Worst of Times
At the start of the new decade, markets are fraught with uncertainty: global economic growth looks poised to slow, forecast corporate...
Stock Market Indices Near Resistance As Cycles Signal Caution
The financial markets have completely discounted a Biden win and a split government, and the complete elimination of uncertainty.
That said, the facts suggest the...
COVID-19 and the Financial Markets: This Time Is Different
It has been almost one year since my last article, and it is probably a good thing I did not write much because any...
Negative Interest Rates: The Mechanics of Absurdity
Over the past few decades, the central banks, including the Federal Reserve (Fed), have relied increasingly on interest rates to help modify economic growth.
Interest...
The Financial Market’s ‘Year of the Pig’ Likes Corn
At the beginning of the Chinese New Year 2019, I wrote a lot about the Year of the Brown Earth Pig, whose element is...
Dollars to Cents… In The Fed We Trust
This article is the first part of a two-part article. Due to its length and importance, I split it to help readers’ better digest the information....
Prominent Investors Share U.S. Stock Valuation Concerns
Jeff Gundlach is the founder and principal fund manager at DoubleLine Capital. He and his firm manage just over $100 Billion in assets, primarily...
Unusual Credit Indicator Reports Big Drop In Demand
As I was going through and updating the various indicators that I monitor something in the credit space surprised me. The NACM CMI (think of this...
2017 Financial Market Review: A Year Of Living Dangerously
In trying to understand and navigate the financial markets in 2017, one could be forgiven for feeling like a young Mel Gibson in the...