Yeah, inflation has remained stubbornly low, creating a bit of a conundrum for the Fed. Our view is that, on balance (in terms of

Yesterday, I blurted out a quick post after reading a headline suggesting that hurricanes help economies. I prefaced it with a warning that the

While much ado is being made over the stock market’s impressive results of late, when we look back a bit and consider its 10

The below is just a quick scribble after catching a headline this morning. The topic deserves more, and better, than you’ll get here, but

Scott Grannis points out how important trade is to your portfolio’s bottom line (NIPA is “a measure of profits based on information supplied to

Yesterday, the Canadian central bank raised its policy rate (by .25%) for the second time in 2 months. If you’re wondering why we remain

At the beginning of each week we update a variety of technical and fundamental indicators/data as our way of monitoring market and economic conditions.

Here are Bloomberg’s summaries for today’s releases of the Institute for Supply Management’s August Non-Manufacturing Survey and Markit’s Services Sector Purchasing Managers Index: Not

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The VIX Index (aka the Volatility Index, and/or the Fear Index), which tracks the volatility component in S&P 500 options pricing, presently sits at