After 20 years in the retail and consumer goods sector, I became a research analyst and market strategist for Capital Ladder Advisory Group. Since 2011, I have published some 400+ articles surrounding mainstream retailers like Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Costco and more. I've covered consumer goods corporations such as Apple, Keurig Green Mountain, SodaStream, Skullcandy, Fitbit and more. To date, I've garnered over a hundred media references to my analytics including Forbes. Presently, I am a contracted consultant to many retail and consumer goods companies in North America and manufacturing entities in China and Korea.
At a time when some are calling for a pause on the development of generative artificial intelligence, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, has an argument for accelerating the work: AI advances are going to provide tools to better understand the technology and to make it safer, Huang said in a discussion with Goldman…...
How about them Small-caps? How about that follow-through? How about the 3-week rally which has seen the S&P 500 rally some 10 percent? That’s right; the S&P 500 (SPX) is up 10% over just the last three weeks, the best such stretch since June 2020 and during the crazy recovery from the March 2020 lows.…...
The Leuthold Group tactical accounts remain positioned defensively, although not to the extent they could be given the bearish weight of the evidence. Net equity exposure in the Core Fund, Core private accounts, Core ETF, and Global Fund all stand at 45%. The guideline range for these portfolios’ stock weighting is 30% to 70%. Today’s…...
The last two trading weeks have not made the bulls whole, but have certainly slashed the hopes of those who were/are positioned bearishly and with the hopes of bad outcomes for equities. The most basic aspect to investing is as long as you position for the long-term, while maintaining a consistent cash position to take…...
In January, the “inventor” of the yield-curve indicator—Campbell Harvey of Duke University—suggested that the inversion of the 10Y/3M spread was “flashing a false signal,” and a U.S. recession would be avoided. But as the inversion deepened, Harvey abandoned that view, moving squarely into the recession camp. We respect his flexibility. Today, we have another economist…...
A tortured heart does not sleep altogether well, and so I spent most of my waking hours publishing the following macro-market thoughts. Why a tortured heart, which will not be detailed here to any great extent, but to suggest that one need but not to look much further than their monitors and/or screens to see…
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Nobody, not once, not ever, said it would be easy to make money in the financial markets as an investor or a trader. Even with such an understanding, there is a difference between making money and achieving one’s investing/trading goals. I had received a number of inquiries, e-mails and direct messages over the last several…...