Marketmail Archive
2-17-21: Forget the Impeachment! Let’s Remember Lincoln & Washington
by Gary Alexander February 17, 2021 Today is the mid-point between Lincoln’s and Washington’s Birthday. When I went to school in the 1950s, we celebrated both Lincoln’s (February 12) and Washington’s (February 22) birthdays [...]
2-17-21: Retail Brokerage Crypto Investing May Be “The Next Big Thing”
by Bryan Perry February 17, 2021 As if all the rage surrounding Bitcoin didn’t need another catalyst for investor excitement, news of Elon Musk buying $1.5 billion in the leading crypto currency [...]
2-17-21: Money Supply Has Exploded – in “Twilight Zone” Proportions
by Louis Navellier February 17, 2021 My favorite economist, Ed Yardeni, pointed out last week that the money supply has exploded and “M2 Is Off the Charts.” He said that we are [...]
2-9-21: The Winning Outliers vs. the Scheming Sea Otters
By Jason Bodner February 9, 2021 What do sea otters, an old athlete, frustrating markets, and outlier stocks have in common? The stars align nicely on Super Bowl Sunday to give us [...]
2-9-21: The Junk Bond Index is “Inside 400”
by Ivan Martchev February 9, 2021 The way investors measure risk in the bond market is by looking at the spread of riskier bonds to U.S. Treasuries. The riskier the bond, the [...]
2-9-21: (Almost) Everything Has Happened Before
by Gary Alexander February 9, 2021 A year ago, Donald Trump was acquitted in his first impeachment trial, long before any American had heard the term “Covid-19.” This week, we begin a [...]
2-9-21: 5% Inflation In 2021 – A Realistic Possibility
by Bryan Perry February 9, 2021 As the stock market hits new highs and garners almost all of the attention of the financial media, there is another bull market taking place in [...]
2-9-21: China and the U.S. Still Lead the Eurozone in GDP Growth
by Louis Navellier February 9, 2021 Last Tuesday, Eurostat announced that the eurozone contracted at an annual pace of 2.8% in the fourth quarter and its GDP contracted 6.8% in 2020. By [...]
2-2-21: Forecasting is Tough – But Now it’s Just a Little Bit Easier
by Jason Bodner February 2, 2021 Forecasting is tough. We rely on forecasts, but then bemoan them when they fail us. How many times have you headed out somewhere expecting mostly sunny [...]
2-2-21: The January Barometer Is Not Bulletproof
by Ivan Martchev February 2, 2021 The S&P 500 Index ended marginally lower in January, putting the January Barometer into play. “As January goes, so goes the year” traders like to say, [...]
2-2-21: The Formula for a Return to Growth (or Further Retreat) in 2021
by Gary Alexander February 2, 2021 The first cut at 2020 growth is in, and it looks like the U.S. economy (GDP) shrank by 3.5% in 2020, its worst showing since 1946 [...]
2-2-21: What’s Behind Investors’ Newfound Love with the ‘Short-folio’
by Bryan Perry February 2, 2021 What a wild last couple of weeks in the world of what is arguably the highest-profile wave of short-squeezes ever witnessed in the history of the [...]