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The Haiku Of Finance For Ending Q1
PixabayThe Haiku of FinanceSearch for high returns Asset class selection mixAll long-term holdingsMore By This Author:Halloween HaikuRichmont Mines Hangs In For Long HaulAwaiting Some Tumultuous Market Tumble
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
The first quarter of 2024 is in the books and the US economy and markets continue to defy expectations, which coming into this year were that growth and inflation would both moderate and the Fed would be able (or forced, depending on how much things slowed) to cut interest rates 0.25% as many as six […]
Economic Data Forecasts For The Weeks Of April 1 & 8
Here are my forecasts for upcoming economic data: Forecast Prior Observation Week of April 1 April 1 PMI Manufacturing Index – March 52.5 52.5 ISM (Mfg) – March 47.8 47.8 Construction Spending – February 0.6% -0.2 […]
Acquisitional Wealth: A Game-Changer For Financial Freedom
It is rare that I read a book cover-to cover. This is one of them.Josh Tolley’s Acquisitional Wealth: The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity is a breath of fresh air in the personal finance genre. Forget the slow slog of traditional wealth-building advice. This book cuts to the chase, revealing the power of acquisition […]
Market Briefing For Monday, April 1
Limits of endurance have not really been fully-tested ‘yet’; given breadth is not up-to-par with S&P around record highs, and that’s give back-filling room to persist; and of course along the way there could be a brief April ‘fooling’.However better breadth, something we’ve contended essential to hold up this market, has been developing, and there […]
You Can’t Fool Mother Nature
Photo by Paulius Dragunas on Unsplash Back when we lived in Chapel Hill NC, we made a few trips to the Outer Banks where my wife had an uncle who built fishing boats in Buxton NC. Back then, nobody was talking about sea levels rising because of global warming and yet it was obvious back then (early 1980s) […]
A Bountiful Start To The Quarter, But Traders In All Too Familiar Position To Start The Month
ASIA MARKETSAsian markets are set to commence trading on solid footing to start the new quarter, buoyed by signs of a “soft landing” in US inflation data on Friday and encouraging macro data from China over the weekend. The closely watched PMI prints showed an acceleration in both the manufacturing and service sectors.With much of […]
Pandemic Whiskey Boom Turns To Hangover
Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash I poured hundreds of “Jack and Cokes” when I tended bar from the late 70’s to mid 80’s. It was beyond me how anyone could tell the difference between Jack Daniels Old No. 7 and anything else when mixed with coke or whatever carbonated cola was coming out of the gun. Turns out […]
AI Sector Stalling: Only 4 Of 7 Categories Went Up In March
Photo by Steve Johnson on UnsplashAn IntroductionIn recent weekly articles I had suggested that the AI sector was weakening and that was clearly evident in the results of March. The Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF (AIQ) of 91 constituents, which best reflects the AI sector as a whole, had gone up 8.4% in February but was only […]
2024 Market Outlook: Elliott Wave Analysis Unveils Trends For Nasdaq 100, AAPL, TSLA, And Beyond
Nasdaq Stock Market Elliott Wave Analysis and Strategy: Insights on Nasdaq 100, Top-Tier Stocks Including Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), Amazon (AMZN), Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta Platforms (META), Netflix (NFLX), and Alphabet (GOOGL)In our Elliott Wave analysis of the Nasdaq stock market, we anticipate that indices will experience an uptrend, mirroring the positive trajectory observed […]
