- Risks are piling as “significantly.” Headwinds such as looming Fed hikes, a housing market that is rolling over and growth and trade-war worries festering.
- Strong earnings may not be enough to move the barometer for tech because sentiment is so negative. Investors have to pick their spots in tech right now. GDP could be the kiss of death. If GDP falls, techs will get crushed
- Midterm elections loom over the stock market as Republican control of the White House and both houses of Congress will end after a two-year stretch. That could be bad news for stock investors. The worst stock market returns have come when the president is a Republican, and the Republicans and the Democrats each control one house of Congress.
- Gold is likely to continue to benefit from stock market volatility and weakness, short-covering and rising risk aversion. The potential catalysts for increasing geopolitical risk include tensions over Italian government finances and mounting pressure from the West on Saudi Arabia over the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
- Short-term bond funds are offering more yield than they have since before the financial crisis plus investors aren’t getting paid much more to invest further out the maturity spectrum.
- Q3 FAANG Earnings Likely to be Solid: investors’ darling and the biggest driver of the nine-year bull run.
- Previously: Stock Market: Buy with Both Arms or Bubble Ready to Bust?
- Moringstars top rated bond SMA during higher interest rate spikes, this short term fixed income investment SMA provided the best 1,3 & 5% year track record in high yield fixed income again according to Morningstar.
