by Samantha LaDuc | Mar 31, 2020
Historical Moves In Charts Dow lost 10,000 points – it’s worst quarterly drop in 125 year history of the Dow. VIX advanced 314% – its largest quarterly gain ever. VIX set a new all-time closing high, $85.47, surpassing the prior closing high of...
by Samantha LaDuc | Feb 3, 2020
I have recently presented my case that central bank liquidity infusions to stem the economic damage from CoronaVirus could ignite inflation. If so, value stocks would roar back, since so many are tied to the Energy complex. And then a curious thing happened today: both Value (VALU) and Momentum (MTUM) were green in equal amounts […]
by Samantha LaDuc | Dec 1, 2016
Higher Rates Can Be Bullish Interest rates follow very long term cycles. Above highlights a 35 year (1946-1981) bond market, but unlike our most recent 35 year (1981-2016) bond market, they were in a rising rate environment (for more than a blip on a chart). From a...
by Samantha LaDuc | Nov 28, 2016
S&P Bulls and Bond Bears Pin Hopes to 1946 Interest rates follow very long term cycles. Above highlights a 35 year (1946-1981) bond market–but unlike our most recent 35 year (1981-2016) bond market, they were in a rising rate environment (for more than a...