Chart Of The Week: US Dollar alligator’s jaws
This week it’s the US Dollar Index. Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or maybe that saying should be updated – unless you’ve been…
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Long term growth estimates have spiked to the highest levels seen since the dot com boom
Here’s the second installment of the new “What the EPS?” series, where I look at earnings trends across sectors, countries, regions…. taking my usual top-down approach. …
EURUSD: From Good Buy To Goodbye
The market is finally starting to wake up after a dream run for the Euro. Speaking to the title, about this time last year I…
What Is Going On With REIT ETFs?
This week it’s a chart of US REIT ETF Assets Under Management, but basically as a prompt to talk about some previous and upcoming changes…
The tax-cut hype has been completely unwound
The April round of the State Street global investor confidence indexes showed institutional investors appear to be growing more confident on the outlook for risky assets. …
Commodity Valuations
This week it’s Commodities, specifically an aggregate view of commodities and a look at valuations. Commodities as an asset class rose from relative obscurity to…
Interesting Charts On Bitcoin, And Other Cryptocurrencies
As a fun weekend activity I decided to dust off some of my various experimental Bitcoin market indicator charts to see if they can help…
Cash allocations are at ~20-year lows, typically something you see late cycle – Overall, it’s a brave new world for asset allocators
This article looks at a couple of key trends in asset allocation. We look at the evolution of investor portfolio allocations to stocks, bonds, and…
EM Vs S&P 500
Emerging market equities had a dream run since the bottom in 2016 (where, if you recall, they took a pummeling as a number of EM…
ChartBrief 199 – Institutional Investor Sentiment
The March data for the State Street Investor Confidence was released this week and showed some very interesting patterns across institutional investors. The global index…
CAPE Country Ratios (DM Edition)
With the correction in global stock markets still running its course, it’s worth surveying some valuation statistics across Developed Market equities. Indeed, the current correction…
Chart Of The Week: US Crude Oil Flows
This week it’s US crude oil flows. Specifically, what we’ve got here is an interesting juxtaposition of crude oil imports and crude oil production for…
Global Equity Breadth Check: New Lows
Just a quick global equity breadth check here. As a reminder, these breadth models are looking at breadth across countries i.e. the main benchmark stock index…
Global Equity Breadth Breakdown Update
The latest price action across global equities has driven a deterioration in market breadth. The 50-day moving average breadth indicator for the 70 countries we…
An Ominous And Familiar Sign In The US IPO Market
As the title suggests, a familiar if ominous sign has emerged in the US IPO market. As I’ve previously written on a number of times,…