by John Coumarianos | Jan 7, 2019 | alerts, Markets/Economy
With the year 2018 in the books, we know the S&P 500, including dividends, has produced a meager 4.86% annualized return from the year 2000. That return has beaten inflation, but I call it meager because it’s not the 10% or so that many stock brokers, financial...
by John Coumarianos | Dec 21, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
“This is a capital preservation market.” So says Jeffrey Gundlach who can’t argue with anyone who wants to invest in the 2-Year U.S. Treasury, currently yielding around 2.7%. If you choose the 10-year, by contrast, and saddle yourself with 8 more years, you get less...
by John Coumarianos | Dec 18, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
Chances are your financial advisor believes in two related intellectual theories that you should question them about. In a recent article, the excellent columnist Brett Arends wrote about the two theories governing most financial advisors – the efficient markets...
by John Coumarianos | Nov 29, 2018 | Markets/Economy
Talking to friends and family at Thanksgiving dinner made me realize how unprepared for volatility investors are. The gathering I attended was filled with a wide mix of investors, from the young and novice interested in technology stocks and (somehow still) in Bitcoin...
by John Coumarianos | Nov 19, 2018 | alerts, Markets/Economy
It’s no secret that October was a bad month for stocks. The S&P 500 Index dropped nearly 7%, including dividends. Granted, the index still had a positive return for the year after the decline, but October wiped out nearly all the gains the index had posted for the...
