Weekly Market Compass

It is clear that taper talk has arrived, and it won’t go away easily. What does this mean for markets?

It is time for the Fed to normalize its language. If the Fed is to preserve its credibility and promote sounder financial market conditions,

Recently, Warren Buffett made headlines by declaring that he is seeing ‘substantial inflation’, while Fed Chairman Powell calls it only

Over the next five days investors face a veritable tsunami of corporate earnings and economic data releases. The week’s data deluge will

The stage is set for rising global output and corporate earnings for the remainder of 2021. Rotation has arrived in sector terms, and is now

This week kicks off the first quarter 2021 earnings season in earnest. The bar is high, and the data will soon need to validate embedded expectations,

Today, as the Biden Administration unleashes the full power of the Federal Government to heal the economy, it is an opportune time to take

The Ever Green fiasco is the perfect metaphor for what can go wrong in today’s economy. Efficienct supply chains lack adequate redundancy.

The Fed and the markets are playing risky games. Can each hold its nerve?

Reflation and Rotation are all the rage. But over time, re-balancing matters more.

By tolerating an inflation overshoot, the Fed may be boxing itself in. Fine tuning is the stuff of hubris, and hubris rarely serves anyone

Investors have been unnerved by rising bond yields. But volatility is not the enemy. Keep an eye on what really matters — economic re-opening

David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ may be catchier than ‘Scary Monsters’, but investors would be well advised to watch out for what lurks

Swimming against a tide pushed forward by massive policy stimulus seems likely to leave contrarian investors with little to show for their

Divisions among the Democrats are opening, with potentially profound impacts on a cyclical recovery, inflation, financial markets and longer-term

The GameStop saga is not about altruism or financial democracy, more likely greed and a dollop of vengeance. But lessons ought to be drawn,

A combination of the peak of the 4th quarter earnings season, political wrangling over the Biden Administration’s proposal to stimulate

Believing erroneously in certainty is perilous — investors should be wary of certainty’s close cousin, consensus thinking.

The past week was marked by shocking images of violent protestors occupying the US Capitol, yet the horror barely registered in financial

2020 has been a year of calculated risk. But periods of strong returns often spawn complacency and excessive confidence.

As the final weeks of 2020 wind down, investors should prepare themselves for the United Kingdom crashing out of the European Union in a hard