Investing Strategies & Updates

What’s Past is Prologue for Markets in 2018

January 1, 2018

Heading into any new year, there is a constant drumbeat by the investment community to demand fresh strategies that will catalyze portfolios when the calendar turns over to Jan. 1. The usual suspect topics, such as “Dogs of the Dow” or “5 New Year’s Investing Resolutions,” tend to stray from the reality of where current […]

Energy Sector Posting Impressive Year-End Rally

December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas! As the 2017 stock market rally rolled along, it did so without the broad participation of the energy sector. Heading into the month of December, it was pretty much thought that investors will book their expected losses in energy stocks to reduce taxes from the gains collected from the technology, financial, consumer discretion, […]

Making a Strong Case for Liquified Natural Gas in 2018

December 18, 2017

While the Bitcoin craze has been grabbing headlines of late, there are some other not-so-risky areas of the market that are awakening like sleeping giants set to squash competition in their respective sectors. One of these areas is Liquified Natural Gas, otherwise known simply as LNG. I’ve been writing about the virtues of LNG for […]

Year-End Forecast Has Stocks Up and Bond Yields Down

December 11, 2017

Approaching the midpoint of the month with only 14 trading days left in 2017, we’re seeing the first signs of a Santa Claus rally triggered by a very robust employment report. Non-Farm Payrolls added 228,000 jobs versus consensus of 190,000 with the Unemployment Rate staying at 4.1%. The November Employment Situation report was basically more of […]

Tax Reform Pulls Capital Off Sidelines

December 4, 2017

The notion of a tax package finding actual passage sparked a fresh rally for stocks that saw the energy, financial, industrial and transportation sectors lead the market higher. The Dow enjoyed its best day of the year, rising 1.4% and clearing 24,000 for the first time. Other bullish developments fueling the fire under the market […]

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Yield Curve Flattening from Strong Demand for U.S. Sovereigns

November 27, 2017

Conventional wisdom would have it that a flat yield curve is typically an indication that investors and traders are worried about the macroeconomic outlook. From several vantage points, the U.S. economy seems to be doing fine. Growth, for the most part, has been trending upwards, the job market continues to shine and inflation is becoming […]

Latest Tax Reform Version Barely Impacts Income

November 20, 2017

No one doubts that the current effort to reform the tax code is a highly fluid situation that will eventually find passage before the 2018 mid-term elections come around. The question that hangs over investors and the market is what final form it will take and, more importantly, how will it impact the bulk of […]

Best-of-Breed BDC Trading Briefly at a Bargain

November 13, 2017

The broader domestic economy is showing clear signs of a pickup in forward growth, and this means that I’m developing a particular interest in high-yield assets that fit nicely with my appetite for floating-rate income. On a continuous basis, I’m seeing smart money in the bond market selling on rallies and not doing a whole […]

The U.S.S. American Economy Full Steam Ahead

November 6, 2017

The simple fact is that just about anything with a dividend or current yield of any kind will rally when interest rates are on the decline. It is like shooting fish in a barrel to be frank. For the past 10 years, this was the case for 90% of income-bearing assets until the November election […]

Q3 Earnings Fuel ‘Epiphany’ Phase of Rally

October 30, 2017

Heading into Thursday, the Nasdaq had been down four of the prior five days as traders took a more cautious tone as to whether the market’s big-cap tech darlings would deliver third-quarter results that would satisfy investor sentiment. There was a feeling that organic growth estimates might have gotten too optimistic. There was a growing […]

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