August 15, 2025 The S&P 500 continues to sit at or near all-time highs despite some clear challenges to economic activity and input price levels. We want to take this time of relative calm to talk about how to get high dividend exposure as a sector investor. The highest yielding sectors have been structural laggards […]
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August 13, 2025 US equities touched another all-time high yesterday on the S&P 500 index. We’ve touched on our concerns about narrowing market breadth and an absence of new themes here. A lack of dynamism at the stock level is a growing concern for us, even though our trend following model remains bullishly aligned for
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August 10, 2025 Equities continue to shrug off challenges from escalating tariffs, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a rate-locked housing market and a sluggish economy. AI is living up to expectations as companies like Palantir synergize impressive results from AI and its data collection software. Semiconductor stocks are retesting highs. Mag7 stocks have
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COMMENTARY: S&P 500’s 2.4% rally this week was powered by a blend of exceptional earnings, tech/AI leadership, hawkish-to-dovish shifts in Fed policy outlook, and tariff clarity for key firms. Markets embraced risk, driven by confidence in corporate strength and easing monetary policy—even amid lingering concerns about inflation and global economic headwinds. The 3.6% weekly gain
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August 7, 2025 Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a niche technology to a foundational force shaping nearly every major industry in the U.S. economy. Given the scale of investment, breadth of adoption, and the distinct economics of AI business models, there is a compelling case for creating a standalone AI sector within widely
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August 6, 2025 With August getting under way and US equities starting the month with some corrective price action, we’re looking abroad to see if investors are starting to rotate to any of the havens they sought in our previous correction from February through early April. That correction, which was basis points short of a
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August 3, 2025 Last week we noted that the S&P 500 had made it into overbought territory. We ended last week with some selling on weak employment data which is obviously untrue. Regardless of statistical truth, all the rational participants in the stock market need to keep in mind that feelings are real. If we
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COMMENTARY: Just when you thought all the S&P Sectors were close to a positive YTD return, this week ruined that. Performance of the S&P500 for the week ending August 1, 2025, fell by 2.4%. Driven by heightened trade tensions due to newly announced tariffs, weaker-than-expected employment data signaling an economic slowdown, shifting expectations for Federal
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July 29, 2025 As July winds down with US and European Equities at all-time highs and EM equities appreciating as well, we come to the tactical concern of how to manage potential profit taking within a strong bull trend. Historically, the seasonal returns for the months of August-October have been the weakest average returns over
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July 27, 2025 The Bull remains in control of the tape as July winds down. A series of new all-time high prints for the S&P 500 (chart below) and the Nasdaq have printed. Our oscillators studies (chart, panes 2 and 3) have hit highs for the past 12-months as well, registering an overbought condition on
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