Weekly Market Pulse (VIDEO)
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun discusses last week's uptrend in the dollar, the falling growth cycle in the economy, interest rates, and gold.
Weekly Market Pulse: All or Nothing Investing
This week marks a change in our economic environment or at least our perception of it. Last year, post-COVID onset, we characterized the environment as one marked by a falling dollar and improving growth. To be exact, that is the environment the markets reflected; interest rates were rising, the yield curve was steepening and the dollar was falling. That changed [...]
Weekly Market Pulse (VIDEO)
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun talks about the 50-year anniversary of coming off the gold standard, and market-based dollar prices
Weekly Market Pulse: Happy Anniversary!
Today is the 50th anniversary of the "Nixon shock", the day President Richard Nixon closed the gold window and ended the post-WWII Bretton Woods currency agreement. That agreement, largely a product of John Maynard Keynes, pegged the dollar to gold and most other currencies to the dollar. It wasn't a true gold standard as only other countries that were party [...]
Weekly Market Pulse: What Is Today’s New Normal?
Remember "The New Normal"? Back in 2009, Bill Gross, the old bond king before Gundlach came along, penned a market commentary called "On the Course to a New Normal" which he said would be: "a period of time in which economies grow very slowly as opposed to growing like weeds, the way children do; in which profits are relatively static; [...]
Weekly Market Pulse (VIDEO)
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun talks about investors panicking "in" to markets instead of out.
Weekly Market Pulse: Trading Places
They're out there panicking right now. I can feel it. They're out there. They're panicking. Look at them. - Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places I thought of that scene the other day when a good friend in the investment business told me that investors today are panicking into the market rather than out as they were [...]
Weekly Market Pulse (VIDEO)
Alhambra CEO Joe Calhoun discusses the quick dip and recovery that happened last week and what investors should do when considering what to buy.
Weekly Market Pulse: Buy The Dip, If You Can
If you were waiting for a correction in stock prices to put some money to work, you got your chance last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 1000 points at the low Monday and closed down 725, a loss of a little over 2%. The S&P 500 did a little better but closed down 1.5%. It looked [...]
Weekly Market Pulse: As Clear As Mud
Is there anyone left out there who doesn't know the rate of economic growth is slowing? The 10-year Treasury yield has fallen 45 basis points since peaking in mid-March. 10-year TIPS yields have fallen by the same amount and now reside below -1% again. Copper prices peaked a little later (early May), fell 16% at the recent low, and are [...]
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