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 with its COVID bank stress test scenarios; the ones banks will have to pass later this...
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, let’s look at the prices of all upcoming expirations for a sense of how...
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 COVID Crisis because they show exactly where joblessness is highest,...
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 the Supreme Court ruled George W. Bush...
With the Fed increasingly using high frequency data to assess the state of the US economy in real time, today we have an update heading into Q4. Now that Summer travel and festivities are over, here’s how two non-traditional datasets...
Excerpt from Forbes quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe: …. “While DataTrek acknowledges that yes, election uncertainty could still contribute to short-term stock market volatility this year, “long-lasting and significant...
