The consensus believes that the greatest risk comes not from holding stocks, but from not holding enough of them.

By: Christopher Pavese

This chart was shared a good amount last month and I’m a huge fan of The Conference Board, so I figured I’d post one more Monday update.

By: Oliver Loutsenko

The world's top 5 stock markets by market cap. It has been a one-man show by the US. Note that India is moving into 4th position.

By: Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA

Spread between S&P 500 earnings yield and 10y U.S. Treasury yield continues to sit quite low and is hovering near early 2000s territory.

By: Liz Ann Sonders

We have entered a new geopolitical regime:  

By: Wei Li

The blended net profit margin for the SPX for Q4 is 10.7% which is below the 1-, 5-, and 10-year averages, and the lowest since Q2 2020.

By: Daily Chartbook

10-Year Treasury Largest Short Position in History 🚨: Hedge Funds are now short more than 889,000 contracts on the 10-Year Treasury, the largest 10-Year Treasury short position in history.

By: Charles-Henry Monchau, CFA, CMT, CAIA

If you have a Bloomberg terminal, you can pull the below screen that shows you the performance contribution of each component in an index. The below screenshot shows that of the S&P500 sorted in descending order.

By: Ryan Lemand, PhD

Once again, at the start of the year, investors face decisions to position portfolios for the year: large or small? Value or Growth? Quality? Domestic or international? EM?

By: Gustavo A. Cano

Most of last week has been about waiting on an event that didn’t cause any volatility in the end. US inflation remained hot in December but had not risen enough to change neither markets, nor the Fed’s perspective on monetary policy.

By: Boris Kovacevic