• Covered call strategies tend to be most beneficial when the stock market posts negative returns, or when returns range […]
View from the Observation Deck Global central banks have been forced to tighten monetary policy as they battle inflation, leading […]
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) declined 0.1% in December, matching consensus expectations. The CPI is up 6.5% from a year […]
Not long after Friday’s Employment Report multiple analysts and commentators were calling it a “goldilocks” report, by which they meant […]
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index dropped to 49.6 in December, well below the consensus expected 55.0. (Levels above 50 signal expansion; […]
Nonfarm payrolls increased 223,000 in December, beating the consensus expected 203,000. Payroll gains for October and November were revised down […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. Today’s blog post features the cumulative total return performance of five major equity indices […]
The ISM Manufacturing Index declined to 48.4 in December, narrowly lagging the consensus expected 48.5. (Levels higher than 50 signal […]
The housing sector was a huge and early beneficiary of the super-loose monetary policy of 2020-21. But, once the Fed […]
View from the Observation Deck 1. One of the most common questions we field on an ongoing basis is the […]