Small Caps have been packing a punch, and that could be big for the market
One needn’t be a fan of Ant-Man and The Wasp to appreciate small things can pack a powerful punch. As it is with superheroes, so it is with stocks. With that convoluted opening out of the way, let’s turn our focus to small cap stocks…
There’s more to market patterns than “sell in May and go away”
Stock market returns should – and will – ultimately reflect the underlying economy, particularly the level of interest rates and corporate earnings, which means, among other things, that the calendar, Gregorian or otherwise, should have no impact whatsoever on performance. Yet, with that written, most…
“Fixer Upper” may have gone away, but housing has come back!
America’s favorite home improvement program, “Fixer Upper” starring Chip and Joanna Gaines, may have gone away, but housing has come back, and that’s a big deal for the US economy. Most folks understand housing was at the epicenter of the Great Recession, but many may…
Earnings yield – What it is and what it says about stocks today
We would argue the most popular way to value individual stocks and the stock market is using earnings, with investors taking what a company or the market has earned (“reported earnings”) or what a company or the companies that make up the market are expected…
Cue UB40 – The US unemployment rate is worth singing about!
The US unemployment rate is worth singing about, with the widely followed and reported upon Household Survey Unemployment Rate (also known as U3) coming in at 3.6% in October, up ever so slightly from its 50-year low of 3.5% in September. For those who question…
Uninvert – to restore from an inverted state; to turn the right way round again
Truth be told, we are not certain “uninvert” is even a word. A Google search for uninvert led us to the website Wiktionary and the definition in our headline above, while a search on the Merriam-Webster website informed us uninvert was not to be found…
The upside of being rejected
Dealing with rejection is never easy. Well, unless you’re Lloyd in Dumb & Dumber and you’re so delusional you can’t appreciate you are being rejected, which, when one considers it, might not be such a bad way to go through life. That said, let’s pivot…
Time is on their side, and ours too!
Nearly 57 years to the day of their first public performance at London’s Marquee Club, the Rolling Stones wrapped up the USA leg of their very successful and critically acclaimed No Filter Tour. Incredibly, time, even after all these years, still seems to be on…
4 thoughts for the 4th quarter
When it comes to cultural tie-ins associated with the number four one can go in any number of directions, including superhero, think Fantastic 4; popular music, think The Four Tops; and sports, think The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Well, as we focus on 4…
Halloween is coming and the market is getting spooky (again)
How fitting. It’s October and just like Michael Myers in the Halloween movie, market volatility has returned to give us all a fright, with the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) off nearly 4% at one point for the month. We see recent volatility, beginning with…