by Clinton Lee | Oct 6, 2021 | Bauman Daily, big tech, Bond Yields, ETF, Stock Market, Trading Strategies, Treasury, U.S. Economy
Is it a stock market or a market of stocks? That philosophical question has a way of stirring up heated debates among analysts. The former resonates well with investors that prefer to buy and hold the broader market, like through an index fund. The latter believe that...
by Ted Bauman | Oct 5, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, COVID-19, Evergrande, Investing, Market Volatility, Treasury, U.S. Economy, Volatilility
Predicting the future direction of the stock market is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t proposition. That’s why some analysts avoid it altogether. They say you can safely ignore the ups and downs of an index like the S&P 500. Others say that predicting...
by Ted Bauman | Sep 29, 2021 | Bauman Daily, ETF, Interest Rates, Investing, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Trading Strategies, Treasury
Stocks keep getting whipsawed. That much is evident with yesterday’s 570-point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And when you flip to the news to find out what’s going on, you hear about political brinksmanship involving spending bills, the debt ceiling and...
by Ted Bauman | Aug 31, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bonds, Economy, Federal Reserve, Interest Rates, Investing, Quantitative Easing, Treasury
What if the Federal Reserve tried to give away money … and nobody wanted it? That’s exactly what’s happening. Last week, the stock market behaved as it always does in the run-up to a big Fed announcement. Stocks traded sideways all week. Then on Friday, when Fed...
by Angela Jirau | Aug 30, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Interest Rates, Treasury, Wealth Protection
Fed Chairman Powell gave the market exactly what it wanted on Friday. Interest rates barely budged. There’s no immediate talk of tapering. And stocks in practically every sector shot up in response — growth, energy, cyclicals. But does that mean it’s time to pile into...
by Angela Jirau | Aug 23, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Federal Reserve, Investing, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Treasury, U.S. Economy
“The harder they come, the harder they fall.” Was Jimmy Cliff singing about the stock market? He might as well have been. And the Federal Reserve tapering may be just the thing that triggers that fall. Since the start of the pandemic, the Fed has spent $4 trillion on...
