Three Data items today, all with different takes on the pace and nuances of a US economic recovery: #1: Gasoline demand as a proxy for how quickly things are getting…
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Gold Vs. S&P 500, Tesla & QQQ
Two topics today – gold and Tesla: #1: A look at the relative performance of gold versus the S&P 500. First, an observation: if you just use single date starting points…
Fed COVID Stress Test Scenarios: Bad, and Alt Bad
As with our “Markets” section in our Full Report today, we’ll take the quiet day to catch up on a few topics: #1: The Federal Reserve was out last week…
Market Risk From Election Day to Q1 2021
Every month we dedicate one Data section to implied volatilities; given recent volatility we will focus on the CBOE VIX Index today in our usual 3-point format: #1: First up,…
US Unemployment: Location, Location, Location
The August state-level US unemployment data was out on Friday, and we have 3 points of interest on this data. We’ve been looking at these statistics since the start of the…
CNBC: "Investors could be overplaying the election as a lasting driver of the stock market, history shows"
Excerpt from CNBC quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe: …. “Jessica Rabe,co-founder of DataTrek Research, notes that the S&P 500 slipped 4.2% in the five weeks from Election Day 2000 until…