Omicron – Variant of Investor Concern
By David Nelson, CFA CMT Without warning COVID jumped to the top of the news cycle Friday sparking a global market meltdown. The World Health Organization (WHO) labeled Omicron – A Variant of Concern. It was certainly a variant of investor concern as traders rushed to the exit even before much is known about the latest […]
What is China Exporting Now?
By David Nelson, CFA CMT Wikipedia refers to Mao Zedong founding father of the People’s Republic of China as one of the most important individuals of the twentieth century. As chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, he established the PRC in 1949 leading a repressive regime where as many as 20 million died during the cultural […]
SPEED KILLS!
By David Nelson, CFA CMT As the vaccine rollout continues investors will start to look beyond the Covid recovery and start to ask themselves some tough questions. The usual suspects or rogue’s gallery of market worries includes high valuations, rising yields, high unemployment and of course my personal favorite a geopolitical backdrop that challenges U.S. […]
2021 – Day 1
Click here for video David joins TD Ameritrade Network anchor Oliver Resnick to weigh in on the first day of trading for 2021.
SHUTDOWN!
By David Nelson, CFA CMTWith a government shutdown approaching DC politics continue to be a quagmire of pork and special interests. A dysfunctional Washington is hardly surprising but the 5,593 page $900 Billion Covid-19 Relief Bill probably hits a new low. The bi-partisan package was of course tied to a $1.4 Trillion government funding bill […]
Small Cap Rally Has Started – Maybe it never stopped
By David Nelson, CFA CMT After years of taking a back seat to large cap secular growth small caps have suddenly exploded higher catching the eye of investors. Caught off guard hiding in the safety of large companies with bigger and stronger balance sheets professional and retail investors are being forced to rethink portfolio alignment […]
Red October
In the long run stocks care about cash flow, earnings, dividends and revenue in that order.