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…
Welcome to another trading week!! In appreciation of all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights and analysis, graphs,…
“There are two types of investors”, according to Bank of America CIO Michael Hartnett: those who want to get rich, and those that want to stay rich. That’s how Hartnett begins his latest Flow Show note, warning that “when those who want to stay rich start acting like those who want to get rich, it suggests…
A widespread view, especially among sell-side banks, is that the currently high equity volatility as depicted by the VIX is likely to return to more ‘normal’ lower levels (Figure 1). Figure 2 shows the level of the VIX at the end of each quarter, compared with the return of the S&P 500 Index over the…
To study the history of market behaviors and/or performance puts the average investor at an advantage, when compared to the “lone wolf” approach to investing. The markets are more dedicated to disseminating human behavior than they are price discovery potentials. While circumstances are seemingly always different/unique, human behavior proves the one most constant variable in…
Welcome to another trading week!! In appreciation of all of our Basic Membership level participants and daily readers of finomgroup.com content, we offer the following excerpts from our Weekly Research Report. Our weekly Report is extremely detailed and has proven to help guide investors and traders during all types of market conditions with thoughtful insights and analysis, graphs,…
