Dow Jones bear markets are volatile markets, lots of days of extreme market volatility (Dow Jones 2% Days), days the Dow Jones moves +/- 2%, and...
Today's conflicts involve the same players and once again they are behind the scenes. We look at how markets performed during world wars along with the...
At the moment, the yield curve has been inverted since Barron’s 21 November 2022 issue, for almost a year, with little note by the financial media,...
I haven’t covered Barron’s Confidence Index (CI), for a while. As something odd happened with the CI last week, something that has never happened before, this...
The future of the US dollar is growing dim, and in the growing darkness, so too is any reason for holding dollar-denominated debt; Treasury, corporate bonds,...
The banking sector is down 43% from its last all-time high at the week’s close. That is an entire bear market decline all by itself. But...
At the time of writing, the Dow Jones closed at 33,390. But it did not close over 100 until 28 September 1909. Still, from February 1885...
Since this bear market got underway in early January 2022 we have now surpassed the average length of a bear market with few signs it is...
Holders of debt benefit when yields go down, as the price of debt then rises. So, debt owners; pension funds, and insurance companies want to hedge...
How is today’s (November 2022) yield curve compared to the historical extremes seen since August 1971? From the perspective of seeing the Fed Funds Rate inverting...