Hello friends,After the August whipsaw, there's been a recovery of most indices close to the old Highs in Europe and the US. The equal-weighted SP500, in parallel with the NYSE Composite, has taken lead into new Highs over its cap-weighted version, suggesting that the big-tech
When markets rally despite a broad overhang of negative news and outlook, they are said to be 'climbing a wall of worry'. Indeed this happens rather frequently, more recently and prominently post the Feb-April 2020 COVID market crash and subsequent 81% rally in NASDAQ, concurrent
The last few weeks have witnessed a hardly-precedented move in micro-, small- and mid-cap indices, but specifically small- and microcaps. A look at the SP400 (MDY, MidCap ETF), the Russell-2000 (RUT, SmallCaps) or the IWC (Russel MicroCap ETF) will confirm the same, with microcaps threatening
Wherever you encounter leadership in life, the behaviour of the leader will to a large degree shape the success and future of whatever undertaking they're leading - whether that's a family, a business, a project, or anything else.It's the same in the stock market -
Unless you've been living under a rock, or worse, are a 'long-term investor', you will know that opportunities in US equities have been bleak and the entire 2023 rally has been anemic in leadership. The 2020 pandemic lockdowns paired with government free money handouts grifted from
When markets rally despite a broad overhang of negative news and outlook, they are said to be 'climbing a wall of worry'. Indeed this happens rather frequently, more recently and prominently post the Feb-April 2020 COVID market crash and subsequent 81% rally in NASDAQ, concurrent
The last few weeks have witnessed a hardly-precedented move in micro-, small- and mid-cap indices, but specifically small- and microcaps. A look at the SP400 (MDY, MidCap ETF), the Russell-2000 (RUT, SmallCaps) or the IWC (Russel MicroCap ETF) will confirm the same, with microcaps threatening
Wherever you encounter leadership in life, the behaviour of the leader will to a large degree shape the success and future of whatever undertaking they're leading - whether that's a family, a business, a project, or anything else.It's the same in the stock market -
Unless you've been living under a rock, or worse, are a 'long-term investor', you will know that opportunities in US equities have been bleak and the entire 2023 rally has been anemic in leadership. The 2020 pandemic lockdowns paired with government free money handouts grifted from
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Wait … just wait.
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