Last year we added the Cass Freight Shipment and Expenditures reports to our proprietary macro index because: “….since the end of World War II

The following from this week’s issue of The Economist speaks to what my study and observations of the past 30+ years has me concluding:

2/16/19 Stocks maintained strong gains throughout the day yesterday, then rallied hard into the close; traders were more than comfortable being long into the

2/15/19 Optimism from U.S./China talks and positive earnings news out of Europe have stocks rallying hard this morning. Xi met with U.S. negotiators yesterday

While the following is no doubt our shortest weekly message ever, it tells you all you need to know about the latest market action.

Confirming what we’ve been preaching herein ad nauseam, just when the major averages were on the verge of green this morning, this headline hit: “US-China

2/14/19 Dow and S&P futures this morning went from nicely positive to flat on higher than expected weekly jobless claims and lower than expected

If it seems like we’re beating the global trade issue to death here on the blog, well, I just read the transcript from today’s

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A hot topic, among many others, today is the push to regulate share buybacks by our iconic U.S. brands. Surprisingly, even some on the