A relatively flat month with intra-month volatility. Also worth noting the last row in the table at bottom of post – CPI Inflation YTD through end of May is 2
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I will continue with letting the financial graphs do most of the talking in this month’s asset class summary. Commodities continue to rip and real yields went
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A picture is worth a thousand words; financial graphs even more so. This month is all graphs, including components of the red-hot commodities.
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Bond yields continued to rise and the red-hot equity market took a pause.
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Everything was fine until “that” happened. What is “that”? Rising rates.
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A new year, new Senate and a lesson in stock settlement collateral drivers and requirements.
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“I know orders are due today but I need 20 more boxes of Thin Mints. I can just pay you when the cookies are delivered, right?” – the frantic last minute
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The 2020 returns for three US large cap indices do a nice job of summarizing the wide dispersion of performance within a single asset class – 47%, 16%, 7%. Can
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November saw one of the strongest monthly equity returns in a very long time. For US small caps, the strongest. The election dominated the first part of the
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The first part of October continued the strong rally from late September but peaked on October 10 weekend. Most equity indices ended down but small caps and
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Welcome to fall when things cool a bit. Most markets embraced this season as well in September. The word ‘correction’ was even invoked for the NASDAQ, but
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The usual suspects are still flying. I repeat the charts showing major asset class returns followed by the comparison of NASDAQ and growth vs. value to help
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