Research Report Insight #1 We’ve identified individual stocks in previous Research Reports that we deemed reasonable opportunities, and we understand that many Finom Group members have benefited from such disseminations. Below are 2 such opportunities that were outlined in mid-October 2020, which have delivered strong profits since: “With the Industrials sector having performed very well…
Research Report Insight #1 Prior to this past week, the S&P 500 had consolidated 4.5% from its peak in January. In February, the S&P 500 began another 4%+ correction and it may have culminated with a 5.8% correction this past week. Now let’s look at a the 1-year chart of the S&P 500 to get…
Where are markets headed as bond yields rise? J.P. Morgan’s Global Research macro views and top cross-asset trade ideas On March 1, J.P. Morgan Research hosted a virtual meeting featuring J.P. Morgan researchers to discuss the drivers of rising US Treasury yields and the implications across asset classes. We view last week’s US Treasury sell-off…
Research Report Insight #1 The benchmark index fell ~1% for the month, breaking from the typical seasonal pattern. February is usually a down month for the market and yet, the benchmark index rose ~2.6% for the month, also breaking a seasonal pattern dating back to the turn-of-the-century. In the chart above, if just go back…
Welcome to Finom Group’s weekend data Mash-up at February’s month-end. With one week left in the trading month, the S&P 500 has grappled back all it had lost in January and then some. While the benchmark index seems in need of a rest and breadth has weakened over the previous trading week, last Friday’s decline…
By Marty Makary of the Wall Street Journal Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted? In large…
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by Matthew Famiglietti and Carlos Garriga Since the mid-1990s, the Federal Reserve System has either implicitly or explicitly had an annual inflation target (IT) of around 2 percent. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s (FOMC’s) preferred inflation measure to meet this target is core personal consumption expenditures (PCE), which explicitly excludes the prices on food and fuel to…
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On Monday, SocGen’s equity derivatives team cautioned that in addition to possible “further de-grossing in hedge fund balance sheets,” last week’s events could also “manifest in another pullback from vol sellers.” The bank’s Jitesh Kumar and Vincent Cassot noted that there are “already signs of excessive stress in the VIX complex as it is trading…
