Positive Macro Data and Consumer Spending

November 29, 2017 6:13 pm / Published in MSCI
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, is expected to have increased 0.3 percent in October. It jumped 1.0 percent in the previous month. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy, is forecast to show a 0.2 percent rise for

YTD Asset Performance #SPX #EMERGING #OIL #GOLD #COPPER #USBOND #MSCI #USD

November 7, 2016 5:17 pm / Published in Copper, DXY, GOLD, MSCI, Oil, SPX, USD
Data from Reuters: #SPX +2% #EMERGING 10.8% #OIL 27.8% #GOLD 22.7% #COPPER 6.4% #USBOND 2.6% #MSCI -0.2% #USD INDEX 1.6%  

$FED aftermath

December 17, 2015 7:00 pm / Published in FED, GDP, MSCI, NYSE, SPX, SPY, Treasury, Unemployment, VIX
The policy tightening kicked off by the Fed this week promises to be among the longest and slowest of modern times. The S&P500 trader lower at first then closing at the highs of the day. Today, a day later experienced a significant sell off.  The VIX trader lower and the Yields higher The world market

$MSCI and $China

November 23, 2015 11:36 am / Published in ADR, China, MSCI, Nasdaq and NYSE
MSCI is adding 15 New York traded Chinese ADRs to its index.  This is a big deal as over $1 trillion of investments will be influenced by this decision.  Only six of these 15 stocks have good fundamentals.