s&p 500

Over the last 18 months, markets have repriced expectations for both interest rates and commodities, first gradually, then suddenly. The way this has occurred brings...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web and post on Twitter. The purpose of this post is to add extra color and...

US IPO Activity — From Boom to Bust: This chart gives a sense for the magnitude and scale of the US IPO boom (and bust). Notably, IPO filings increased exponentially...

In a bull market investors are well rewarded for “buying the dip”. As a share market sets new all-time highs, as most global share markets did through 2021, the bulk...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web and post on Twitter. The purpose of this post is to add extra color and...

Companies in the healthcare, consumer staples and utility sectors hold the strongest appeal for calendar 2022, while Aussie banks are on the nose, according to the T....

After two years of largely uninterrupted asset price gains, January provided a rude awakening for many investors. And it wasn’t just profitless tech stocks that took a...

Peter Lynch once famously declared: “If you spend 13 minutes a year on economics, you’ve wasted ten minutes.” Similarly, Warren Buffett once averred: “If Fed Chairman...

Fallen angels, for a microcap investor, can be heaven-sent. They may also wreak havoc on your portfolio if they skip the crucial “turnaround” component and hit the...

Misguided assumptions plague the fixed income universe. Many investors avoid the space because they believe it either doesn’t offer attractive returns or because some...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

It was a positive end to the week for Aussie shares, supported by the US agreeing to extend the debt ceiling and China coming back online after a week-long holiday,...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

The Weekly S&P500 Chart Storm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web (+some of my own charts), and then post on Twitter.The charts focus on...

I have directed Secretary Connally to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions...

And the Bull Market is back on. After the wobble on Monday the Dow Jones has jumped over 1000 points in three days. Why did we ever question it? Maybe because the S&P...

Precious metals fell sharply in June 2021, with gold, which fell by more than 7%, recording one of its largest monthly declines of the last decade. The key driver of...

US corporate earnings (S&P 500) totalled US$421 billion, up 27% compared to the first quarter of 2019 (pre-pandemic earnings). At a time when unemployment remains...

Savers have long recognised the need to balance income and capital, but recently this has proven difficult as yields of all asset classes have fallen to very low...