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.
On behalf of Finom Group, we are wishing everyone a joyous and safe 4th of July extended weekend! Please take some time to consider this week’s compilation of 3rd-Party Research and be on the lookout for this weekend’s proprietary macro-market Research Report. Half of the trading year is in the books, and we look forward…...
Not a prediction, but rather RECOGNITION! Our framework for the future is recognizing the probabilities, predicated on history. When we consider an S&P 500 price target objective for any given year or any given rolling 12-month period, it is not a prediction, but recognition of the data as analyzed through the lens of historic price…...
Good weekend Finom Group investors/traders. On our off-reporting weekend, please consider browsing the Wells Fargo 2025 Mid-Year Outlook amongst other analysts and strategists considerations as the first half of 2025 completes in the coming days. We’ll see you back here next week with our proprietary, macro-market Research Report! The Technical Take The short-term downtrend continues,…...
Ahead of today’s FOMC rate announcement, press conference with Fed chairman Jerome Powell, and the markets’ closure Thursday to celebrate Juneteenth, please take some time to consider our 3rd-Party Research as part of your weekly due diligence process. Additionally and as a reminder, this weekend is Finom Group’s off-reporting weekend (no proprietary macro-market Research Report),…...
The year 2025 is shaping up to be an event-packed year, with the installation of a new U.S. president endogenously disrupting the global trade structure, and as of this past week, an exogenous Israel/Iran war. While there may be a great many market participants revisiting the onset of the Russia/Ukraine war of 2022 as a…...
Whether or not you believed the S&P 500 (SPX) could or would get back to 6,000 this quickly and after plunging below 5,000 in April doesn’t matter. What matters is that you surrounded yourself with optimism and good behavior. The market doesn’t care what you think, it cares about inflation and earnings, both of which…...
Good weekend to all! During our off-reporting weekend, please take some time to read through the latest report from Morgan Stanley regarding drawdowns and recoveries; not all drawdowns or company stocks are created equally. In addition, we offer some other considerations we hope add to your macro-market information flow until we see you back here…...
A couple of weeks ago, we took exception with those market participants whom downplayed the 6-week long rally from the market lows in early April. As the month of April found markets basically round-tripping almost all of the losses from earlier in the month, and doing so with a significant breadth thrust and technical stochastics…...
For many investors/traders, 2025 will be found for a great deal of regret and “should haves.” Through the Finom Group weekly macro-market Research Reports, I have been pounding the proverbial table regarding actively buying the initial market correction, and ever since. “Speaking of game plans… the rendering of a game plan below is that of…...
Welcome back to this weekend’s macro-market reporting. During our off-reporting week, please read through our macro-economic update and 3rd-party research and analytics. Happy Mother’s Day to all! Before jumping into these insights, recall heading into this past week, Finom Group was looking for markets to cool off a bit, some degree of market consolidation: “The…...