Market Structure Insights

September 8, 2021

Are you Value or Growth?   Depends what we mean, I know. S&P Dow Jones says it distinguishes Value with “ratios of book value, earnings and sales to price.” It matters because Growth is terrorizing Value.  According to data from the investment arm of AllianceBernstein,...

September 1, 2021

Suddenly it’s September.  Statistically, the worst month for stocks. It’s then no surprise that SEC Chair Gary Gensler would start hucking Molotovs at market structure.  If you’re gonna do it, why not when stocks might be rocky? Gives you air cover. For those who missed...

August 25, 2021

Where’s what going? Time? Hm. Money?  Well. Yes. It abounds and yet it doesn’t go far.  Why that’s the case is another story (I can explain if you like but it usually clears a room at a cocktail party). First, if you were spammed last...

August 18, 2021

Things are getting worrisome.  It’s not just our spectacular collapse in Afghanistan less than a month before the 20-year anniversary of Nine Eleven.  That’s bad, yes.  Inexcusable. It’s not the spasmodic gaps in supply chains everywhere – including in the stock market.  It’s not bond...

August 11, 2021

The starting point for good decisions is understanding what’s going on.  I find it hard to believe you can know what’s going on when you’re authorizing trillions of dollars of spending.  But I digress. Investor relations professionals, when was the last time you called somebody...

August 4, 2021

We’re back!  We relished upstate New York and Canandaigua Lake.  If you’ve never been to Letchworth and Watkins Glen parks, put them on your list.  See photo here from the former, the Upper Falls there. Alert reader Deb Pawlowski of Kei Advisors, a local resident,...

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