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How To Play In The Private Equity Sandbox
A recent article highlighted the trend of the number of publicly traded companies shrinking and the rocketing number of private companies. Instead of looking for a big IPO payday, company founders and their private equity partners are choosing to stay private and keep profits to themselves.This chart shows changes in public vs. private companies over the last […]
Nasdaq ISE seeks SEC approval to increase IBIT options trading limits from 25,000 to 250,000
Key Takeaways Nasdaq ISE proposes to increase IBIT options position and exercise limits tenfold. The proposed change is motivated by increased trading volumes and liquidity in IBIT. Share this article Nasdaq ISE, LLC (ISE), the Nasdaq-owned options exchange, recently submitted a proposed amendment to the SEC to increase the position and exercise limits for options […]
Yay For The Bond Vigilantes
Image source: Pixabay The New Year has started off as well as one could suspect. In addition to the Co-President arguing that the United States should invade the United Kingdom on Twitter, and we Canadians lost our Prime Minister with the timing due to the crisis caused by the threat of massive tariffs from a country […]
Morgan Stanley Strategists Warn Of Tough H1 2025 For Stock Market
Image Source: Pexels Morgan Stanley strategists have cautioned that climbing government bond yields and a strong U.S. dollar could pressure American equities in H1 2025.Mike Wilson, the bank’s chief U.S. equity strategist, leaned bullish in November 2024 when he predicted an 11% upside for stocks by 2025. However, it appears that Wilson is now concerned about a potential […]
Investor Memo Q4 2024: Valuation, Momentum, And The Risk Of A Market Correction
Stock Price Performance in ReviewThe year 2023 ended on a high note. During the year, the S&P 500 Index rose 24.2% to close the year at 4,769.83. The total return on the index, including dividends, was 26.3%. However, as of December 2023, analysts predicted a more sedate 2024. Exhibit 1 shows the average forecast for […]
Three Areas That Are Exploding Higher In The Markets
Ignore the doomers, there is ALWAYS a profit to be made somewhere.Because of a 5% drop in the last two weeks, the overall stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, is effectively flat since election night. Put another way, stocks have gone nowhere for two months straight. Worse still, the S&P 500 is clearly […]
Asia Open: Navigating The High-Stakes Coin Flip Of Global Trade And Tariffs
Image Source: UnsplashThe first whole trading week of 2025 started with a resurgence in stock market optimism, driven by traders with fresh annual budgets and a renewed appetite for risk. After a brief but pronounced thematic shift away from mega-cap tech leadership at the end of last year—a move that quashed the expected Santa Rally—investors are […]
Stocks Give Back Early Gains As Breadth Implodes
Today’s trading session was choppy. It started with optimism driven by NVIDIA’s (NVDA) strong performance following news from Foxconn’s reported revenue and anticipation of Jensen Huang’s remarks at CES. However, the enthusiasm faded as higher interest rates began to weigh on most sectors outside technology.The S&P 500 finished up 55 basis points. It had been […]
Market Could Remain Mixed
Image Source: Pexels SPX Monitoring purposes; Sold long 1/6/25 at 5975.38 = gain 1.59%; Long SPX on 12/31/24 at 5881.63.Our gain 1/1/24 to 12/31/24 = 29.28%; SPX gain 23.67%Our Gain 1/1/23 to 12/31/23 SPX= 28.12%; SPX gain 23.38%Monitoring purposes GOLD:Long GDX on 10/9/20 at 40.78. We are up 29.28% for 2024; SPX up 23.67% for the […]
