Lance Roberts's Comment & Analysis
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The analysis from the Atlanta Fed shows that housing affordability has been at its worst in the last twenty years. This is unsurprising given that potential homebuyers face the highest mortgage rates...
Bloomberg recently published, This 30-Year Old’s Startup Is Bringing Leverage To 401K Savers. Their article details Basic Capital, a new startup providing institutional investment strategies to...
Last week, we discussed that while the market improved sharply, the underlying economic data continues to decline steadily. However, given that the data was not recessionary, the market rallied and...
Assessing a bear market rally proves challenging when you experience it firsthand. It is only in hindsight that the complete picture reveals itself to investors. Of course, after a bear market...
While coming in much stronger than expected, the latest employment data confirmed what we already suspected: the economy is slowing. The reason the employment data is so important is that without...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that he will meet with Chinese officials in Switzerland to begin trade talks with China.
A month ago, when markets were grossly oversold, news of trade...
This past weekend, OPEC, led by Saudi Arabia, announced it would increase production by 411k barrels per day. The action follows a 250k increase last month. The decision is different from OPEC’s...
An email from a reader of ours led with the title “PCE is quite confusing.” He asked if we would explain the difference between the monthly PCE prices index and the quarterly PCE prices, i.e., the...
“Resistance is futile” was a sentence that struck fear in the hearts of Trekkie fans during “Star Trek: The Next (LON:NXT) Generation,” specifically in both of the “Best Of Worlds” and “First...
Last week, we discussed that the market backdrop improved markedly following commentary from the White House that eased concerns about tariffs. To wit:
“The market rallied above the 20-DMA this past...