Is Volatility Awakening?
Written by Michael Lebowitz and Lance Roberts | Aug 10, 2023 | Daily Market CommentaryThe VIX volatility index calculates how much the options markets imply the S&P 500 will move ov...
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> Read MoreThe U.S. Treasury will auction $38 billion of a ten-year note today and $23 billion of a thirty-yea...
> Read MoreIt's no secret that mortgage rates have risen sharply. They now stand above those seen on the eve o...
> Read MoreThe BLS employment report showed that job growth has finally normalized to pre-pandemic levels. Per...
> Read MoreEquity investors used the acronym TINA to justify buying stocks at excessive valuations. TINA follo...
> Read MoreOn August 5, 2011, S&P downgraded the United States' credit rating to AA+. Almost to the day, t...
> Read MoreYesterday we learned that Exxon (XOM) is in talks with Tesla, Ford, and Volkswagen about supplying ...
> Read MoreIn last week's Commentary, Doves Versus Hawks, we stated: "There appear to be two camps emerging, t...
> Read MoreTen and 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yields rose sharply, with their yields piercing 4%. The driver w...
> Read MoreThe Fed has raised rates by 5.50% in a little over a year. For the most part, during that period, F...
> Read MoreRemember PacWest? Following the demise of Silicon Valley, Silvergate, and Signature banks in March,...
> Read MoreOver the last thirty years, the Fed has relied on lower interest rates to pump the economy when it ...
> Read More"Despite the slowing recovery in tourism in the region overall, one contact highlighted that May wa...
> Read MoreThe recent New York Fed Credit Access Survey report shows consumer borrowing is becoming more diffi...
> Read MoreAlbert Edwards of Societe Generale wrote a thought-provoking piece based on the graph below. He ask...
> Read MoreOn July 24th, the Nasdaq 100 will reduce the weightings of its top seven holdings to try to better ...
> Read MoreThe federal debt cap was lifted on June 3, 2023. The Treasury immediately flooded the markets with ...
> Read MoreYesterday's Wall Street Journal led with a troubling article on Europe's economy. Their article, Eu...
> Read MoreEarnings season began with mixed results from three of the largest US banks on Friday. JPMorgan and...
> Read MoreThe Magnificent Seven (Apple, Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, Meta, Tesla, and Microsoft) have been on a te...
> Read MoreThe BofA graph below (right) is making the rounds on Twitter and causing investors quite a dilemma ...
> Read MoreThe US and much of the global economy are driven by bank credit. Since debt has grown consistently ...
> Read MoreNASDAQ announced it will rebalance the NASDAQ 100 Index to "address overconcentration in the index ...
> Read MoreThe past week's labor market data continued to show strength. However, the week's data varied wildl...
> Read MoreThe Federal Reserve closely follows how restrictive or easy its monetary policy is. While many indi...
> Read MoreSince 2020, individuals and corporations have been provided significant funds from the government t...
> Read MoreOver the last three years, massive amounts of fiscal and monetary stimulus and irregular economic a...
> Read MoreLast week Nike reported a fourth-quarter net income of .66 cents a share, down from .90 cents in th...
> Read MoreThe S&P 500 rose 13% in the first quarter, the third-best first-half-of-the-year performance si...
> Read MoreOur most recent article, Treasury Yield Curves- Is This Inversion Different, explains why inverted ...
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