Market Structure Insights
November 14, 2018
How is it that stocks and oil fall if no one is selling them? There’s an answer. Tim Tebow once famously sent a one-word tweet: “Motivation.” For Tebow (Karen and I were downtown years ago when Tim was a Denver Broncos quarterback, and we passed...
November 7, 2018
As the colors of political persuasion in the USA ripple today, what matters in the equity market is what the money is doing. We measure Sentiment by company and sector and across the whole market daily. It’s not mass psychology. Rational thought sets a small...
October 31, 2018
Boo! As the market raged high and low, so did Karen and I this week, from high in the Rockies where we saw John Denver’s fire in the sky over the Gore Range, down to Scottsdale and the Arizona desert’s 80-degree Oct 30 sunset over...
October 24, 2018
Anybody hear yesterday’s volatility blamed on Counterparty Tuesday? Most pointed to earnings fears for why blue chips fell 500 points before clawing back. Yet last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average zoomed 540 points on earnings, we were told. We wrote about it. Counterparty Tuesday...
October 17, 2018
As stocks fell last week, pundits declared that interest rates and trade fears had shaken confidence. Yesterday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average zoomed 540 points, earnings, they declaimed, had brought investors rushing back. Oh, and easing trade tensions. Didn’t we know corporate profits would...
October 10, 2018
From another rumor that game-maker Zynga might have a buyer, to a Trian bid for Papa John’s, to Bill Ackman’s stake in Starbucks, deals and rumors of them abound. Suppose it’s your company, investor-relations professionals. How do you add value for your executives? These situations...