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Asia Open Insights : Beware Of The Perma Bears In 2024
Image Source: PixabayOn the penultimate trading day of 2023, the S&P 500 managed to eke out a nominal gain, retracing early advances just before the closing bell. The benchmark index concluded the session with light trading volume, ending a mere 0.3% below its record closing high set on January 3, 2022.The three primary U.S. indexes remained […]
Common Investing Mistake: Income Obsession (& More)
Image Source: PexelsIncome Above AllA dividend investing strategy is usually aims to create an income stream from a portfolio, to live off dividends and keeping the capital comfortably secured in a brokerage account. If you hold your shares, you get your paycheck. It’s like a pension plan, by you manage it! However, a common investing mistake […]
AUD/USD Loses Its Recovery Momentum Near 0.6830 As Dollar Rebounds
Image Source: Unsplash AUD/USD loses ground near 0.6830 amid the quiet session on Friday. US Initial Jobless Claims grew to 218,000, better than expected. The RBA’s first board meeting for 2024 will be held on February 5 and 6. The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index for December is due on Friday. The AUD/USD pair loses its recovery momentum […]
Seven Rate Cuts Priced In For Next Year
Image Source: PixabayThe latest calculation of the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index, an indicator of “inflation”, was reported on Friday morning (22nd December) in the US. The following chart shows that the latest number extended the downward trend in the index’s year-over-year (YOY) growth rate, which is now 2.6%. Moreover, the “core” version of the PCE […]
Crude, Crypto, & Credit Crumble As S&P Nears Record High
Image Source: UnsplashThe penultimate trading day of the year was ‘mixed’ with Small Cap stocks and Treasury Bonds down; The dollar and The Dow up; and crypto, credit, and crude all falling as what little macro data there was disappointed (wholesale inventories declined for the 9th month in a row; claims rising more than expected and […]
The Events That Defined 2023: Visualized
Looking back at 2023, the year was defined by various international geopolitical events while the tech and business world kept a close eye on artificial intelligence’s advances in the first full year of the technology hitting its stride.This graphic from our upcoming 2024 Global Forecast Report looks back at the major events that dominated the headlines and […]
5 Leveraged ETFs That Gained More Than 75% In Q4
Image Source: Pixabay Wall Street enjoyed a robust fourth quarter despite experiencing a correction in late October. Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell into correction territory but staged a strong recovery, propelled by a combination of factors including easing inflation, growing expectations that the Federal Reserve is approaching the end of its […]
Cybersecurity Software Stocks Index Up 8% In December; Up 80% YTD
Image Source: Unsplash Many cyber security systems software companies should continue to do well in 2024 given the momentum they have realized in 2023 and the 14% increase in spending on cyber security anticipated in 2024.Below is a list of the top 10 cyber security systems software company stock performances so far in December (MTD), in […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Turning The Page
Stocks wobbled around.The spokesmodels had their ‘new highs’ pom-poms out today. Maybe tomorrow or next week.We have another Non-Farm Payrolls report with all its attendant drama coming up.Yeah we’re turning the page on this month, quarter, and the year.I thought I would include a longer term US Dollar DX chart for those talking heads who expressed […]
Tyler Cowen On Recent Fed Policy
Image Source: PexelsDavid Beckworth did a podcast with Tyler Cowen, and there was an extensive discussion of recent Fed policy. Here’s one interesting comment: Cowen: We did as well as we did coming out of 2008-2009 because of that work. Probably, we should have done more, as you and others have argued, but I give them a lot […]
