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…
A burst of volatility hit the markets finally this week after most of October that was relatively quiet. Sudden wave of Covid-19 cases, new lockdowns in Europe and the presidential elections uncertainty all added up together. Indices are down 8-10% from their tops now. We also had a bunch of macro data and 3Q20 reports.…
More and more dynamic political and epidemic situation is so far not causing increased volatility. This week only Monday saw major indices move more than 1% down. The rest of the week was characterised by very low volatility. Its measure (VIX) hovers around 25-27. Reporting season rolls on. 27% of members of the S&P500 have…
October progresses and further pandemic restrictions are being reestablished around the world. Markets remain broadly immune though. It seems that most direct effects of managing the virus are now priced in and it’s hard for them to have a meaningful impact on investors. 3Q20 reporting season started. So far the results coming out form US…
With this post we’re coming back to usual publication of our GlobalAlphaSearch.com Weeklies after a little break. In general the equity markets had a pretty positive week. The sentiment was not even distorted by the US politicians, who keep quarrelling about further stimulus. The political front will most possibly be geting hotter every day now…
Volatility is coming back. That’s the shortest description of the last week’s developments. Recent leaders were vulnerable. In this post I shortly describe what was up. Here we go… Last week -> The US markets were closed on Monday for the Labor Day. This caused other markets to trade in a pretty subdue manner.-> As…
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In this post I shortly describe the main market events for the first week of September just ended. Here it is… Last week -> The market ended August on Monday ona really high note. All US indices had their best August in over 30 years time actually. This is pretty unusual for August. Below you…
In this post I shortly describe the end-of-month rebalancing of the SIA-style Pension Portfolio (PP). For a detailed review of the most important market developments for August 2020 please refer to my Global Leaders Portfolio (GLP) rebalancing here. The rebalance The usual monthly injection of $1k was again used to purchase GLD. SPY holdings were…
