Now it’s getting weird. Companies are asking us why their shares are up. Most times it’s the reverse. Why’s my stock down? It’s a telling point along the continuum of the Curiously Strong Market. S&P 500 earnings so far this…
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Does alpha exist? That was how a hedge-fund executive began a conversation when I was in his office back before the pandemic. He said the joke among hedge funds is that everybody is pursuing something – higher risk-adjusted returns –…
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I’m amused. There is a ceaseless stream of people chattering about the economy. On TV. On the web. In print, in digital. Will we have a recession, a soft landing, nothing? When will the Fed stop lifting rates and start…
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There’s no alpha left in public equities. Hasn’t been for 20 years. Nope, not me. I didn’t say it. Marc Rowan, CEO and co-founder of Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm with six hundred billion dollars under management said…
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Should you wear an Apple Virtual Reality headset during earnings calls? Wait, what? Earnings calls? I’ll explain. I remember wondering if Apple would survive. You too? The maker of personal computers had by the 1990s lost the market to Microsoft. …
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The NYSE opening auction failed yesterday. Prices gyrated and trading halted in swaths of large caps including XOM, WMT, UL, T, VZ, RTX, MCD, PRU, UNP, MO and many more – trillions in market cap. It was, to quote comedian…
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ModernIR has seen a surge of interest from companies perplexed by the stock market. They see that stocks don’t move with fundamentals, don’t move as expected. They move with each other. An October 12 Wall Street Journal article described “lock-step”…
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Maybe we should have a horse race to decide our elections. In Siena, the whole region gathers July 2 and August 16 annually, thronging the Piazza del Campo (the city square you see behind our beverages in the photo here,…
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