Weekly Market Compass

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

It is time for investors to consider the possibility of rising inflation, which is now more probable than at any time in the past two decades.

Rotation in markets is the next big opportunity. Value has a lot of room to make up for a decade of underperformance. But sometimes it pays