This week was Thanksgiving week for US markets. Activity was somewhat subdue because of that around mid-week. But in general equities did just well, unlike safe havens like Gold. The risk is on. After last’ weeks consolidation at or just above all-time highs for the equities, this week indices started marching higher. Old economy stocks…
The market has mostly consolidated at around its all-time highs this week. The range was narrow. The SP500 traded within 100 pts and Nasdaq within less than 300 pts. Boring you think? Not quite. Let’s see what was up. According to more and more signs the equities markets keep discounting a cycle phase change. A…
In this post I continue our series of articles about portfolio management. I go on with further, a bit more detailed continuation of the theme. I further develop the issue of Compounding, I explain Discounting, Annualisation, Continous Compounding/Discounting. In the next posts we will move on from the basics to the definitions like Risk, portfolio…
US indices made new highs this week. Most of the indices traded higher week-on-week but more or less flattish throughout the week, as investors were digesting the massive post-elections rally and the vaccine news, while also looking for new triggers to drive the markets into the year end. Still, there was quite a bit going…
The Presidential elections risk was finally written down by the markets as election date came. This week showed that whatever the outcome investors just want to move on. We saw huge gains this week and indices regained most of the ground they lost in Oct in just a few days really. Again an extremely tight…
