Marketmail® Archive
7-2-24: There’s a Lot for Americans to Celebrate This July 4th
(Despite the Dismal Presidential Debate)
by Gary Alexander July 2, 2024 Two top stock indexes hit new all-time highs on Friday morning after the Fed’s favorite inflation indicator – the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index – indicated [...]
7-2-24: Leveraged High Yield Bond Closed-End Funds Look Attractive
by Bryan Perry July 2, 2024 The primary takeaway from last week’s slowdown in inflation, per the PCE index report, is that a rate cut in September is very much on the [...]
7-2-24: Will Election Year Chaos Torpedo This Bull Market?
by Louis Navellier July 2, 2024 Presidential election year chaos escalated after Joe Biden’s dismal Thursday night performance, where he shuffled to the podium, had a hoarse voice, stammered, lost his cool [...]
6-25-24: Try Not to Track Stock Prices Daily
by Jason Bodner June 25, 2024 I analyze stocks by using unemotional data to guide me. It’s been very accurate and fruitful for 25 years. By “data,” you may assume I’m surrounded [...]
6-25-24: More European Political Fireworks Are Coming
by Ivan Martchev June 25, 2024 Readers of this column may be disturbed reading The New York Times article titled, “The Man Softening the Ground for an Extremist Germany,” about Bjorn Hocke, [...]
6-25-24: Keep Investing – Even During World War III
by Gary Alexander June 25, 2024 I’m against war and would do anything I could to bring peace to Ukraine, the Middle East and other hot spots, but the sad truth is [...]
6-25-24: The Torrid AI Rally Takes a “Pause That Refreshes”
by Bryan Perry June 25, 2024 The financial media and some Wall Street gurus are banging a drum to say that the AI trade is overpriced – or priced way ahead of [...]
6-25-24: Bond Traders (Not the Fed) Control Interest Rates
by Louis Navellier June 25, 2024 The big news last week was that the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose by only 0.1% in May, below the analysts’ consensus estimate of [...]
6-18-24: While in Europe, I Take a Closer Look at Travel & Leisure Stocks
by Jason Bodner June 18, 2024 I picked the wrong profession, or at least the wrong place to practice it. Wall Street was intense. I made good money and had a great [...]
6-18-24: Beware the Franco-German Spread
by Ivan Martchev June 18, 2024 Elections for the EU parliament are sending shock waves throughout financial markets in Europe. The national elections still matter more, when it comes to the politics [...]
6-18-24: The Data-Dependent Fed Relies on Deceptive Data to Meet its Misleading Mandates
by Gary Alexander June 18, 2024 In 1977, Congress created “dual mandates” for the Federal Reserve by amending the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Fed’s Open Market Committee to maintain the [...]
6-18-24: The Market Just Got Real Simple, Real Fast, For Most Investors
by Bryan Perry June 18, 2024 This past week of trading activity brought with it several new developments that have stoked uncertainty in a number of sectors. Last week’s sequential trading sessions [...]