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.

Are Fund Flows Back To Their Regularly Scheduled Programming

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…...

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The Most Positive Pullback And Future Indicators Of Price

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…...

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Macro-Headlines Can Be Confusing

Lennart Heim is the Compute Team Lead at RAND’s Technology and Security Policy Center and a Professor of Policy Analysis at RAND School of Public Policy. China will likely match U.S. AI model capabilities this year, triggering inevitable concerns about America’s technological edge. However, this snapshot comparison misses the bigger picture. While Chinese models close the gap on benchmarks,…...

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Only 2 Ways For The Market To Go From Here

Although the stock market has rallied remarkably since the April 8th low, there will remain a very unhealthy amount of market participants from all walks of life that will remain paralyzed by the headlines and fears of a looming and seemingly inevitable recession, as promoted in the headlines. Investors feel the fear of a recession quite…...

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Leaving April, But Maintaining Tariff Turmoil?

The impact on real GDP from Trump’s tariffs will depend crucially on whether (and how quickly) the customs duties raised are recycled back into the economy as new tax cuts. We assume most, if not all, of the revenue is returned to households in the upcoming budget reconciliation. Failure to do so would represent a…...

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Markets Will Test Investors’ Patience And Resolve

Nobody said 2025 was going to be easy? Well, maybe the Wall Street strategists implied so with their median S&P 500 (SPX) forecast of 6,500. Either way, keep your seatbelt buckled, arms and legs inside the market vehicle at all times and until the ride/year comes to a stop, kindly!  How have you performed in…...

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April Macro-Market Mash-up

Happy Holidays to all Finom Group members, and welcome to this weekend’s 3rd Party Research Compilation. During our off-reporting weekend, please consider the following Analytics from in and around Wall Street, inclusive of certain of our macro-economic notes. We continue to monitor the data surrounding the labor and housing markets, as these two areas often…...

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Confidence Scarring Market Moves

Only 1 quarter and 8-trading days into 2025, only about 60 days into the new Trump-led White House administration, and what a ride it has been already. If we hadn’t suggested strapping yourself in and hanging on tight beforehand… what are you waiting for? There’s a veiled suggestion within “strapping yourself in”, as investors are…...

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Are We Nearing An Inflection Point In Markets?

A troubling macro-market landscape, gripped by an endogenous force-factor has been at play since February. The label of this endogeny is now undeniably “Trump Tariffs”, as the immediate reaction to President Trump’s labeled Liberation Day has been a global asset class decline and raised probabilities for a domestic and possibly global recession. The notion of…...

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Long-term Gain Demands Short-term Pain

Good weekend Finom Group investors/traders. As this is our off-reporting weekend, please consider the abundance of thoughts, outlooks and analysis offered in our 3rd-Party Research within this weekend’s publication. In addition, we think it beneficial to review our proprietary macro-market Research Report from last weekend when time permits. It has proven a difficult year for…...

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