Market Update: Oct 2023 SPY, QQQ, XHB Crash Comparisons
An exciting trading day today for the U.S. market. Let’s take a look at where we stand on the SPY, QQQ and XHB crash comparisons. First up SPY. SPY SPY…
BEA: September 2023 Core CPE
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released the PCE price index and it didn’t move in the right direction this past month over month. The PCE price index increased 0.4 percent.…
Labor Shortages: Vermont
JetBlue is discontinuing flights from Burlington to New York. The reason? Labor shortages of course! JetBlue cited the FAA actions in announcing its decision to end its Burlington service, which…
GDP Grew at 4.9%, Are We At Peak GDP?
The BEA reports that GDP grew at 4.9% and it begs the question if we are at peak GDP for the next few years, more on that later. Real gross…
DIVOS™ Trade: GOOGL – Alphabet
In Our 2024 Investment Strategy for Equities, we introduced our DIVOS™ strategy and during this today’s market turmoil, we initiated a very small position in GOOGL (Alphabet/Google) and intend to…
Back To Office Ultimatums? Call Their Bluff!
Fortune has a story about Roblox CEO David Baszucki issuing an ultimatum about returning to the office or get fired. The threat is laughable because they’ve been calling for return…
Comparing Inflation 1960 to 2023
In our post, Fed Pause, Demographics and Inflation we showed the chart below that showed how millenials and gen z are now a huge demographic coming into family formation and…
Market Update: Oct 2023 SPY, QQQ, XHB Crash Comparisons
The 10 Year Treasury breached 5 percent this week. There is an escalating war in the middle east and mortgage rates hit 8 percent so what better time than to…
September 2023 – Top US Trading Partner Inflation
It’s time to check in with the top US trading partners and inflation for September. The biggest winner in the inflation battle seems to have been The Netherlands with a…
Texas Tapping High School Students for Water Works
They say politics makes strange bedfellows and nothing is more perplexing than a state with dire labor shortages that is impacting the distribution of a key resource like water and…