Everything You've Heard About Bond Yields Is Backwards When Wall Street talks about bond yields, it's about playing better defense with stocks—but is everything Wall Street thinks about bond yields backwards?
5 Key Risk Management Tips The Two Rules of Investing Risk management is an important element to achieving long-term investment results but it often gets overlooked by investors as generating returns takes center stage. Due to the compounding effects of investment returns, losing money can be a catastrophe. That’s why Warren Buffett has two
The Real Cause of Hot Inflation—Real Rates In today's analysis, we're going to be analyzing the August CPI report which came out this morning hotter than expected, and dissect why inflation is being so stubborn. TLDR: Interest rates don't matter, real rates matter. But in order to understand the true driver
State of the Market Report Key Takeaway: Declining fundamentals have only just begun. As Jerome Powell mentioned at Jackson Hole just a week ago, expect much more pain. Energy Prices In an interview with Bloomberg, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that OPEC, the world's largest crude exporter, was prepared to
Using Heat Maps To Find Portfolio Protection Today the market opened in some pretty bearish territory. In periods of extreme bearish sentiment, interesting opportunities can reveal themselves for the savvy investor. One of the more interesting opportunities that can reveal themselves are stocks that zig when others zag. Traditionally, the beta of a stock tells us how
Is This The New Bull Market? Is this the beginning of a new bull market, or have investors been lured into a bear trap? Today we review both cases and let you decide.
Rates Up, Markets Down - The 1970’s Great Inflation Is Back With prices rising at their fastest pace in over 40 years, the Federal Reserve moved to raise Federal Funds rates by another 0.75% to 2.5% this morning. The marks the fourth time the Central Bank has raised rates this year in an effort to break inflations back, which
The Hedge Fund of Congress—How Congress Members Beat The Market in 2021 It's no real secret that Congress likes to trade. Whether you attribute it to intellect or having the inside edge on major industry moves before they happen, it's hard to ignore the one simple fact: Many lawmakers are beating the market by a significant percentage every
Top 5 Most Overvalued Housing Markets in 2022 Buyer beware—these markets could see price drops of up to 20% in the event of a recession. According to Moody's, years of increasing housing prices have led to 96% of the biggest markets in U.S having overvalued real estate. Most of the overall market now remains
Will The Stock Market Crash in 2022? Pick Your Slopes Carefully And Wear A Helmet June 2022 experienced one of the largest spikes in volatility this year—and given the current movement in the VIX, we can certainly expect more in the near term. In fact, as of today, the recession probability indicator on Synvestable Premium shows