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Weekly Market Pulse: Fear Itself

By |2023-05-08T09:18:54-04:00May 8th, 2023|Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Markets, Real Estate, Stocks|

Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. -Warren Buffett   Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own. -Nathan Rothschild Rothschild is said to have made a fortune buying assets in the wake of the Battle of Waterloo so in his case, he meant this literally. Another quote attributed [...]

May Payrolls (and more) Confirm Slowdown (and more)

By |2022-06-03T17:59:03-04:00June 3rd, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

May 2022’s payroll estimates weren’t quite the level of downshift President Phillips had warned about, though that’s increasingly likely just a matter of time. In fact, despite the headline Establishment Survey monthly change being slightly better than expected, it and even more so the other employment data all still show an unmistakable slowdown in the labor market. What’s left open [...]

Very Rough Shape, And That’s With The Payroll Data We Have Now

By |2020-01-11T14:08:31-05:00January 11th, 2020|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has begun the process of updating its annual benchmarks. Actually, the process began last year and what’s happening now is that the government is releasing its findings to the public. Up first is the Household Survey, the less-watched, more volatile measure which comes at employment from the other direction. As the name implies, the [...]

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