Category Archives: investment myths

More August Face-Plants. This Time with an Inverted Yield Curve

Posted on August 15, 2019 by jodonnell

Whew! This August is starting to smell a lot like last December, if you know what I mean. The market is trying to commit hari-kari. But some of us are wondering why. The latest reason for markets to reach for … Continue reading →

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More Face-Plants

Posted on August 13, 2019 by jodonnell

I opened the month with a comment on the market doing a face-plant. The market continues its face-plants. Long-term indicators are now even more positive while short-term indicators, highly volatile of late, remain slightly negative. The biggest positive I see … Continue reading →

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August opens with a face plant

Posted on August 3, 2019 by jodonnell

The market has started August on on a disappointing note. It fell over 3% this past week; it’s worst week since January. August tends to be a rough month, and following recent new highs in the stock market, the poor … Continue reading →

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Feels a lot like watching snow melt

Posted on June 25, 2019 by jodonnell

The market has been doing nothing.  Nothing for a year-and-a-half. I enclose a screenshot, below, I took this morning with equity futures down a little bit. If you carefully study the chart below, you will see the right-end of the … Continue reading →

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“A Recession is Ahead” – or so “they” keep telling me

Posted on April 1, 2019 by jodonnell

A friend of mine and a reader of my blog spoke to me recently about the coming recession.  He thought “moving assets to cash” would be the right thing to do. We hear much about “fake news” in the political … Continue reading →

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