June 12, 2025 The Crypto trade is heating up with recent news that companies are taking a page out of the MSTR playbook and adding Crypto to their balance sheets. This is being called a “bitcoin treasury strategy,” buying digital assets like bitcoin, ether, and solana in hopes of boosting their stock prices. Roughly 60 […]
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June 5, 2025 Equities have staged a bullish reversal since early April and we’re seeing nuclear stocks emerge as the new “Juice” trade in the alternative energy space. Investors are moving off low vol. in favor of higher beta exposure in both Growth and Cyclical areas of the equity market. In the Alternative Energy space,
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May 29, 2025 As equities have reflated since early April, investor risk appetite has firmed. Crypto currencies have seen performance vs. USD firm and various thematic ETFs begin to outperform again. Looking beneath the surface, we’ve seen more speculative miners and infrastructure stocks catch bids while some established crypto players aren’t keeping pace. Coins have
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May 22, 2025 Global trade dynamics have impacted almost every aspect of the global equity market in 2025. Investors have concerns about aggregate economic impact on growth, inflation concerns due to rising trade barriers, infrastructure and supply chain sourcing and the availability of labor. One way that has manifested across investment themes is by bifurcating
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May 8, 2025 If you’re of a certain age you remember the record store. Whether vinyl, cassette or compact disc, all of recorded music was physically laid out by genre. At the risk of dating myself, I was all about the music scene and the record store as a teen in the 1990’s. A most
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April 24, 2025 US equities have had a good week on optimism around trade war reconciliation. Positive catalysts included acknowledgement that escalating tariffs on China would be “unsustainable” by Treasury Secretary Bessent. News that US/Japan talks shows progress and reports that lowering tariffs on China were in consideration. These developments surfaced as earnings season struck
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April 17, 2025 US equities are in risk-off mode. Last week’s rally on the first round of conciliatory developments between the US and ex-China trading partners has dissipated as investors shift to discounting the US/China trade conflict. Restrictions on semiconductor exports have already crimped NVDA and TSMC while continued selling in Mag7 shares has been
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March 6, 2025 US equities are in risk-off mode. Uncertainty around US implementation of Tariffs has opened the door for more speculative money to flow overseas as US equities continue what is developing into a deeper correction in the near-term. Utilities, Real Estate, Staples and Healthcare stocks are outperforming Large, Mid and Small Cap. benchmarks
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February 27, 2025 This week we’re looking at Crypto ETFs. The coins and related equities were strong through last November’s election but have been retracing gains over the past 3 months. We evaluate the trends to determine where we think opportunities may lie. Bitcoin Near-term Oversold The BTC:USD chart (below) shows the coin bouncing from
February 13, 2025 We are excited to introduce a new flavor of our “Thematic Thursday” cyclical, the Deep Dive, where we look through to the stocks and fundamental characteristics that are driving performance in the most notable thematic funds. MILN: A Standout Performer over the Past 6-Months We start our new feature with MILN, the
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