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I Need Your Feedback on The Lead-Lag Report
Hello everyone, I hope you’re doing well. I’m writing to you directly because I have an important request: I want to make The Lead-Lag Report better for you. For over five years now, The Lead-Lag Report’s format and approach have remained largely unchanged. While I’
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Capitalizing on Deregulation: The Free Markets ETF Strategy
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Record Highs, More Risk
U.S. stocks did well in September. The S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all went up in value, and the Dow even set a new record. But the background doesn’t look as convincing. Markets may be ahead of fundamentals given weak jobs growth, manufacturing weakness, and stubborn
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Utilities’ Strength Signals Short-Term Volatility Ahead
My award-winning research from 2014 showed that utility stocks typically outperform the broader stock market in advance of market volatility. Utilities are the perfect example of a low-beta, interest-rate-sensitive, non-cyclical sector. During times of risk-off, investors are drawn to them because their dividends and
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Value Story Starting To Play Out
Below is an assessment of the performance of some of the most important sectors and asset classes relative to each other with an interpretation of what underlying market dynamics may be signaling about the future direction of risk-taking by investors. The below charts are all price ratios which show
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Weekly Signals
Small Caps Gain Momentum as Fed Signals More Rate Cuts
How To Interpret the Signals: Within each strategy, there is a risk-on and risk-off investment recommendation, with the risk-off option being the more conservative of the two. When a particular signal indicates that investors should be risk-off, for example, subscribers should consider investing in the risk-
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Rate Cuts & Market Highs: Is a Rotation Coming?
The Fed’s widely expected rate cut last week had the chance to be a “sell the news” event, but it ended up being the opposite. U.S. stocks continued to push to new highs with tech and growth stocks still leading the way. While Powell indicated that further cuts