Daily Brief: Goods Deficit Narrows to $101.5 Billion as Housing Prices Inch Higher
The U.S. goods trade deficit fell to $101.5 billion in June, beating expectations, while FHFA data showed home prices up 2.2% year-over-year. A packed...
Daily Brief: Earnings Beat and Ceasefire Hopes Lift Markets as Oil Retreats From $90
Nasdaq futures jumped 1.4% as chip stocks rebounded, 87% of early S&P 500 earnings beat estimates, and ceasefire diplomacy pulled oil back from...
Daily Brief: The 4.2% CPI Print Is an Energy Shock — Here’s How to Position for It
May CPI hit 4.2% but it's an energy shock, not broad inflation. Here's what to own, hedge, and avoid as gasoline surges 40.5% and core holds at 2.9%.
Stock Market Too Hot – Liquidated Most DIVOS Positions
We haven’t been posting much because we’ve been busy liquidating portfolios. We think the market is too hot now and we’ve taking this opportunity to liquidate our DIVOS stock positions.…
Cisco vs NVIDIA vs Intel
Back in August 24, we wrote an article entitled, “Is NVIDIA the new Cisco?” and included the chart below. Last August, the talking heads on business networks were all touting…
Checking In On Nvidia vs Cisco vs Intel
Nvidia is supposed to report results tomorrow and we decided to update our charts of Nvidia vs Cisco and decided to add Intel to the mix. There is surprising similarity…
US Treasury – 30 Year TIPS Auction
On Thursday February 2024, the 30 year TIPS treasury auction will take place and we are picking up some of these bonds for the long haul. We think this investment…
State of The Economy
The S&P 500 reached all time highs on Friday so what is the real state of the economy? We dug thru various sets of data to try to figure it…
Market Update: Jan 2024 SPY, QQQ, XHB Crash Comparisons
With the start of the new year we decided it’s time to take a look at our ongoing crash comparisons for SPY, QQQ and XHB. We’ll note that we had…
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…