3 takeaways from former Fed Reserve Chair Yellen
Recession isn’t imminent although current GDP growth puts the economy at risk of overheating absent improvements in productivity, Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently said.
Tax-loss harvesting could mitigate market losses
Deutsche Bank AG recently analyzed 74 diverse asset classes globally. The chart below shows that 2018 is on track to be one of the worst ever for market environments according to at least one metric: A full 89 percent of asset classes have returned losses in U.S....
Midterm elections to bring investors trick or treat?
The U.S. congressional midterm elections roll around every four years, inviting plenty of speculation about how the outcome will affect markets — possibly delighting or spooking investors. Rather than play along with pundits’ political guts, we prefer to take a...
Stock tumult in Q4 2018
Asset classes are springing leaks at a rapid rate in the 4th quarter of 2018. In particular, global stock markets suddenly cast aside their complacency and sold off sharply with cascading events Oct. 10-11. Major U.S. indexes were down approximately -5.0% over those...
2018: Bond Discontent
2018 has been a trying year for bond investors. As of this writing, the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond Index is on track for the second worst year in its entire history (since 1976), down -2.49% year to date. Since 1976, the index has had a negative total return...