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Now that the world’s central banking cartel is taking a long-overdue pause from printing money and handing it to the wealthy elite, the collection of asset price bubbles nested within the Everything Bubble are starting to burst. The cartel (especially the ECB and the Fed) is hoping it can gently deflate these bubbles it created,…
As we enter the last month of the year, the holiday season is kicking into full gear, decorations are popping up everywhere, and the burning question arises, “Will Santa Claus bring gifts for stock market investors, or will he leave a lump of coal in their stockings?” It was a bumpy sleigh ride last month,…
Back on October 11, when U.S. stocks were careening lower for a second consecutive day in a dubious encore to the previous session’s systematic rout, BofAML’s Michael Hartnett noted that the bank’s Global Breadth Rule had triggered a buy signal. “89% of MSCI country equity indices are below their 50 and 200-day averages”, Hartnett said,…
By Alec Young, managing director, global markets research The yawning gap between US and international equity performance that has been building since 2011 persists unabated. Through mid-September, the Russell 1000 Index has generated a year-to-date total return of 9.6% compared to a 4.4% decline for the FTSE All-World ex US Index and a 10.1% decline…
