Excerpt from Barron’s quoting DataTrek co-founder Nick Colas: …. “Elon Musk is worth a cool $274 billion. Now, a former auto analyst-turned-market researcher has broken down the number to show how the Tesla CEO amassed such a...
We are dedicating today’s “Data” section to US small caps because year-to-date returns here are, for lack of a better word, awful. The Russell 2000 is down 11.7 percent so far in 2022. That’s far worse than the S&P 500 (-7.4 pct) or...
Three “Data” items today: Topic #1: The dollar’s continued strength versus the euro, yen, and pound. Consider the following charts: First, here is the US dollar-euro exchange rate over the last 5 years (CNBC.com chart). At 1.09 to the...
Two items for our “Data” section today. Topic #1: Friday’s US Employment Situation report was a case study in hot labor markets. Three points on that theme: First, March’s unemployment rate of 3.6 percent is among the lowest readings in...
