The hot story talked about by all the experts last year was the ‘decoupling theory’, that the world will be able to move on and grow stronger with a weaker US economy/stock markets. I guess something has changed.
The following are stories from the financial media related to decoupling theory from the past year.
Fed’s Kroszner Says [...]
The stock scan conducted after the close on Thursday found 22 winners and 32 losers: [VIEW SPREADSHEET]
The entire list was then ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click File > Export to save the spreadsheet to your own computer.
The scan is designed to find [...]
The stock scan conducted after the close on Wednesday found 29 winners and 16 losers: [VIEW SPREADSHEET]
The entire list was then ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click File > Export to save the spreadsheet to your own computer.
The scan is designed to find [...]
The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 42 winners and 66 losers: [VIEW SPREADSHEET]
The entire list was then ranked and sorted relative to performance against the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes. Click File > Export to save the spreadsheet to your own computer.
The scan is designed to find [...]
There was some interesting sentiment news today from NASDAQ. They announced the creation of NASDAQ OMX indexes, four new benchmark indexes that will “help international investors better manage their exposure to these increasingly important global sectors”.
YTD Comparison of $SPX, BBH, KOL, SLX, GDX
Is the timing of the launch somewhat late? Three of the [...]
The July portfolio review has been published.
ACTION FOR THIS WEEK
The Strategic Performance and Ex-U.S. model portfolios should be adjusted as necessary at the open on Monday. The Conservative Retirement and Thrift Savings Plan model portfolios were re-allocated on August 1, 2008 and are not due for adjustment until September 2, 2008.
ALLOCATION FOR [...]
Tom Keene did two must-listen podcasts this week:
Fisher Says Consumption Slowdown May Cause Bond Defaults[DOWNLOAD PODAST]
Peter Fisher, managing director and co-head of fixed income at BlackRock Inc., talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about the Federal Reserve’s relationship with the U.S. Treasury, assumption of the Treasury’s distressed pool of assets onto the Fed’s central bank balance [...]
If June 2008 capped a difficult quarter for equities, July was a tough month for portfolios with exposure to the deflating commodity bubble.
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