Today we will look at the results of last week’s DataTrek Asset Price Bubble Survey. Thanks to all who participated! We had a total of 394 responses, with the vast majority coming from the DataTrek community (98 percent). To the 9 people who...
While we were writing up the clean energy stock piece last night we got to thinking about why retail investors buy these stocks in the first place. This cohort has clearly been an important piece of the sector’s marginal bid for quite a...
When I (Nick) first started covering the autos in 1991 at the old First Boston my first course of action was to meet a slew of portfolio managers and analysts to figure out what I could do to be helpful. As I visited them, I noticed many had a...
Excerpt from Bloomberg quoting DataTrek co-founder Nick Colas: … “What seem like very lofty U.S. stock valuations are defensible if (and only if) earnings bounce back strongly in the second half of the year,” Nicholas Colas, co-founder of...
We will freely confess to being only begrudgingly bullish on US Financials over the last few months. We’ve preferred cyclicals of all stripes, but really only found the group appealing because it was simply the cheapest sector in the whole...
Today we will visit with 2 volatility/VIX related topics for “Data”. #1: The CBOE VIX Term Structure, or what the market is expecting in terms of future volatility past just the next 30 days. Here are the VIX levels priced into futures markets...
