When the market turns nasty people typically look to uncorrelate their holdings, but it looks like building an uncorrelated portfolio is harder than ever these days. I made 6 month correlations matrixes for international equity markets, the bond market and US sector ETF's. Diversification gains looks to be scarce ...
The (main) problem with the US economy is not cyclical but structural. Yes the US (and the rest of the world) is currently in a cyclical downturn, this cyclical downturn is part of a much larger structural collapse of the US economy. Worst of all, no one is talking about ...
It would seem that the January effect could be making a comeback (albeit only for this year). Essentially the January effect was/is an anomaly where by stocks experience a general increase in the month of, you guessed it, January. A commonplace explanation for this effect has been that investors ditch ...
