Europe Main Indices – DAX / FTSE / CAC
I’m sharing some world major indices chart. Please have a look … DAX Monthly Chart – Keep a close watch on DAX… This month closing is very important !! Close below 13052 level will be negative. DAX Weekly Chart – Weekly also suggesting Sell now. Has made Bearish Engulfing Candle and also has […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm! Why It’s Time To Reset Expectations
One of the key themes from our investment strategy conference this year (see here for audio and slides) was how valuations and sentiment play into future stock market returns. Valuations and sentiment go hand in hand as valuations indicate what people are willing to pay for a dollar of earnings. During times of exuberance, investors […]
De-FANGed: Five Ways The Disrupters Could Be Disrupted
We highlighted the launch of the ICE FANG futures contract earlier this week (here) and what an auspicious moment it was for the launch. The argument put forward by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, was that it is possible to be “bearish on the FANG stocks, but not be some perma-bear who thinks […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – The Yellow Sign
“In reality, though, it was never about us and our economy at all. Today it is obvious that all of this had only one rationale: to raise up a class of supermen above us. It had nothing to do with jobs or growth. Or freedom either. The only person’s freedom to be enhanced by these […]
What’s Behind The Recent Surge In Oil Prices?
Video Length: 00:05:55 On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Rob Cittadini, director, Americas institutional, and Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben discussed the recent rise in oil prices amidst political unrest in Saudi Arabia. Oil prices on the upswing as turmoil engulfs Saudi Arabia The recent events in Saudi Arabia helped fuel a […]
The Darker Side Of Peer-To-Peer Lending
Peer-to-peer lending refers to an economic transaction in which individual investors lend directly to individual borrowers using online platforms. Yuliya Demyanyk, Elena Loutskina, and Daniel Kolliner illuminate the darker side of such arrangements in “Three Myths about Peer-to-Peer Loans,” written as an “Economic Commentary” for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (November 9, 2017). Their more […]
Don’t Get Done In By Unintended Overweight Exposure
A few things from around the interwebs over the weekend. First up is a paper from Research Affiliates titled Building Portfolios: Diversification Without The Heartburn. The paper targets a portfolio with a 10% volatility, a pretty low number and because of current valuations believes the way to get there is to have only 27.5% in equities […]
S&P 500 Snapshot: Up 15.3% In 2017
The S&P 500 opened Friday below Thursday’s close and oscillated around a small range throughout the day, closing with a daily loss of 0.34% and a weekly loss of 0.21%. Year-to-date, the index is up 15.34%. The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the 10-year note at 2.40%. Here is a daily chart of […]
Otonomy Just Did Something That’s Almost Never Seen In Biotech
A number of companies had a great week this week in the biotechnology space, including Dynavax Technologies Corporation (DVAX), which finally picked up regulatory approval in the US for Heplisav B, its low dose requirement hepatitis B vaccine, and OncoSec Medical Inc (ONCS), which was able to show that its development stage ImmunoPulse IL-12 asset […]
With Just One Bear For Every Five Bulls, There Is Serious Herd Mentality
The Tematica team has been doing a lot of head shaking lately with the markets doing things that either don’t make much fundamental sense or violate well-established correlations. While we all clearly enjoy seeing the markets go up, we prefer to see confirmation that the upward moves are on steady ground. From falling volumes to […]
