The Real Reason Why Stocks Are Rallying
The music is back on. Several times over the past few years I’ve referred to the markets as a real life game of “musical chairs.” We all know the children’s game: When the music plays you run around the chairs and you hope that you have a place to sit when the music stops, otherwise […]
Stock Market Update: 7/11/2016
Stocks surged last week thanks almost entirely to the post-jobs-report Friday rally. The S&P 500 rose 1.28% on the week, and is up 4.21% year to date, and now is within a few points of its all-time high. Despite the gains, the week started with some volatility as the S&P 500 dropped 1% Tuesday following […]
Boring But Important: Italian Banks
Since the Brexit vote we’ve been focused on watching European banks, as they will tell us when potential anti-EU political contagion morphs into actual financial contagion (which would be a bearish game changer). And while far from an “all clear,” there have been a few positives for European banks last week. First, the SX7P, the […]
How Brexit Will Move Markets (Stocks, Bonds & the Dollar)
Many subscribers to the Sevens Report have been asking: What Will Make Brexit Good, Bad and Ugly Why a “Remain” Vote May Not Be A Positive for Stocks How Stocks, Bonds and the Dollar Will React Depending on the Vote How to Protect Portfolios and Seize Opportunities Regardless of the Outcome. Brexit Preview: Good, […]
Why the Yield Curve Matters to Your Clients
When you started in this business, did anyone sit you down and explain that watching things like the “10’s minus 2’s Spread” could help predict economic slowdowns and potentially avoid stock markets declines? Me either. I learned it the hard way – through being an execution trader and later a buy side portfolio manager through […]
Weekly Economic Cheat Sheet 12.28.15
Last Week Data was sparse last week but the reports that did come were lack luster and while none of them are enough to increase concerns over the pace of the US economy, it is an undeniable point that data has underwhelmed lately, and that’s especially notable given the Fed just hiked rates. The highlight […]
What Credit Spreads Are Saying About the Economy
/in Investing, Reports/by Tom EssayeWhat’s in Today’s Report: What Credit Spreads Are Saying About the Economy