Are Bonds Still A Good Volatility Hedge?
May 20th, 2022
Are Bonds No Longer a Good Volatility Hedge? Most readers are aware of the ongoing volatility in the stock market. Generally speaking, selling pressure in the stock market should mean that bonds – and in particular U.S. Treasuries – are holding their own and maybe even zigging where stocks are zagging. But that has notRead Entire Article…
Can Fed Raise Rates Without Triggering a Recession?
May 13th, 2022
Can the Federal Reserve Raise Rates Without Triggering a Recession? The Federal Reserve is firmly on the path of tightening monetary policy in 2022. The question is whether they get it right. At the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting next month, market-watchers expect the Fed to raise the benchmark fed funds rate byRead Entire Article…
How to Approach the Ever-Changing Energy Sector
April 25th, 2022
How Should Investors Approach the Ever-Changing Energy Sector? The war in Ukraine has surfaced somewhat of an existential question for the energy sector. The world is slowly but surely attempting to transition to renewable energy sources but is still very reliant on oil, natural gas, and to a lesser extent, coal. World leaders have committedRead Entire Article…
Is Volatility and Uncertainty Good for Crypto?
April 1st, 2022
Is Global Uncertainty Good for Bitcoin? Cryptocurrency proponents have long insisted that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would see their value increase when volatility and uncertainty shook the world. The narrative suggested that when inflation spun out of control, when war broke out, when volatility in the stock market soared, etc., it would be digital assetsRead Entire Article…
Why Tech Stocks Are Getting Hammered
March 18th, 2022
Why are Tech Stocks Getting Hit So Hard? As the Russian invasion and spiraling oil prices continue to roil markets, one category of stocks in particular has taken an outsized beating – technology. With the selling pressure in the first week of March, the tech-heavy Nasdaq officially slid into bear market territory, declining more thanRead Entire Article…
What you should (and shouldn’t) do in this volatile market
February 15th, 2022
Equity Markets are Volatile – What Investors Should and Shouldn’t Do The stock market has been edgy in 2022. The year opened with the S&P 500 reaching an all-time high on January 3. But by the opening of trading on January 24, the index was down -12% from the peak – a steep and suddenRead Entire Article…
Chasing hot investment trends can burn you
February 9th, 2022
Beware of Hot Investment Trends The world is awash in liquidity, which has put investors all over the risk curve. For instance, 2021 was a solid year for major U.S. and global indices, but there were plenty of investment traps and dead-ends to navigate. The “meme stock” and SPAC craze early in the year blewRead Entire Article…
4 Tech Trends to Watch in 2022
January 4th, 2022
4 Technology Trends to Watch in the New Year (And Beyond) 2020 was a banner year for many technology companies – the S&P 500 technology sector soared +43.9%, not in spite of, but because of the pandemic. As uncertainty draped over the U.S. economy and as large segments of the population leveraged technology to workRead Entire Article…