Two items today: Topic #1: The balances at the Federal Reserve’s Corporate Credit Facilities have barely budged in 3 months, so it’s a good time to see where marginally rated…
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NY Fed’s Weekly Econ Index, Initial Claims Deep Dive
Three Data items today: #1: The NY Fed’s Weekly Economic Index (WEI) continues to show generally steady improvement in the US economy. The WEI uses a set of high frequency indicators…
September Money Flows, Sentiment Indicators
Today we have three data-driven thoughts on where US investor/consumer sentiment currently sits: First up, one of our favorite Wall Street/Main Street indicators: the number of US Google searches for…
Q3 VC Funding Steady, A Positive for Stocks
How has the pandemic impacted 2020’s venture capital funding and IPO markets? Crunchbase just came out with its Q3 2020 Global Funding report, and here is a summary of their data:…
Hedging Stocks With Bonds And Gold
We’ve been writing about asset price correlations every month since October 2009 for basically one reason: they are simultaneously one of the most watched and least understood data points in…
Russell vs. NASDAQ: History and Today
Today we want to look at the historical out- and under-performance of the Russell 2000 US small cap stock index versus the NASDAQ Composite Index, perennially heavy with US technology…