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Discussion of what it would take to push the ratio to positive ground, looking at the individual indicators that have heavier weights, which could potentially improve rather quickly under certain conditions.

It’s that time of year when we roll out the annual “Playing The Bounce” strategy.

NIPA earnings (National Income and Product Accounts) were revised downward significantly. Also believe that Small Cap earnings estimates are overly optimistic.

Our view that the consumer is due for a pullback has been bolstered in recent months, as Consumer Discretionary groups have continued to slip in our Group Selection (GS) Score rankings.

Link between Junk bonds and stock market seems to be indicating that stock investors are ignoring factors pushing Junk bond yields higher.

Despite a respectable S&P 500 gain of 18% over this eighteen month period, it appears Main Street investors want little to do with the domestic stock market.

Life & Health Insurance has rated Attractive for five months now, steadily climbing up the rankings during that time.

Auto Parts & Equipment has rated Attractive in seven of ten months this year, including the last two months.

One development that is currently dampening rent hikes is the increasing conversion of condo units to rental units, increasing the overall supply of rentals.

This month’s “Of Special Interest” focuses on the inflation pressures into today’s marketplace.

August was comparable to flying through a category five hurricane, a violent storm with gut wrenching updrafts and downdrafts. The relatively low volume recovery from the August lows has the characteristics of a bear market rally, not the beginning of another major move to the upside.

Not even the stock market gymnastics of late-February and March of this year could rival the kind of volatility  we saw in August.

August was an incredibly volatile month, and a month which saw the VIX Index explode to the highest level since 2003.

There has been a lot of talk recently by PMs and market commentators citing Technology as the place to be. However, when the performance is disaggregated, it becomes clear that this broad sector does not in fact look so good. There are pockets of strength (like the Tech…Big Ten), but our message to readers is be careful.

Recession risks don’t disappear the day the yield curve rights itself....the “window of vulnerability” extends for quite some time.

Transparency into the world of the financial derivatives market is notoriously opaque, and the statistics that are available can only offer hints about the level of risk looming over the financial system.

Cash takeovers (including private equity buyouts) provided a very conducive environment for the stock market to rise, but there are now signs that this era of endless cheap money available to corporate and private equity buyers could be coming to an end.

Because Main Street investors have ignored the U.S. stock market during the recent bull market, they are not a useful contrarian gauge. However, in looking at foreigners investing in the U.S. stock market, we may have identified a new source of contrary behavior.

Many quantitative factors, which had previously shown little correlation, suddenly all moved together.

The YTD net redemptions of $11 billion further substantiate the idea that individuals’ lukewarm aversion toward the U.S. stock market is now turning into full-fledged revulsion.