Whats Right Whats Wrong Whats Next What Happened
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What’s Right, What’s Wrong, What’s Next?
What Happened?
Bears’ Bites Are Worse
Bulls Want More to Chew On
Bonds? • Treasuries Fell (Orange) Corporates Climbed (White)
What’s Wrong • • Global economies, global markets Trade costs for select industries Transportation & labor costs Peak earnings growth? 21% (2018) to 11% (2019) Interest rate fears Electoral threats End of consumer spending? End of business investing?
What’s Still Right • Consumers • Business • Industries – Petroleum – Utilities – Real Estate – Banks – Technology
Inflation? Not Here
Fed Not Going to Stomp • FOMC guides, not sets (current = 2. 17%) • Range guide 2. 00 -2. 25% (next meeting Nov. 8)
Economy Still Champ • GDP is 4. 2% (Next estimate Oct. 26)
Consumer Still Consuming • Retail trade (US Census) +6. 6%
Consumers Still Comfy
Business Still Investing • US private domestic investment (BEA)
Forward Capital Spending Indications
Portfolio Denizens Not Doomed • • The right Indexed Equities Utilities = reliable returns + growth Real estate is about location Petroleum—up-, mid- and downstream Technology still advancing missions Banks recovering, slowly but surely Consumer goods and services Bonds and preferreds
Looking For Signs • S&P 500 Index breakdown • Margin credit and free balances
Further Signs • Corporate credit – Corporate bonds – Collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) • Consumers & business conditions • Bearish or bullish
Want a Little Protection?
Hedging • • • Cash 12%, up from 8% Reduced index allocations Focus on dividends Focus on bonds Sustainable companies Avoid inverse ETF space
Best Bargain Buys • • Compass Diversified (CODI) Hercules Capital (HTGC) Viper Energy (VNOM) Enterprise Products (EPD) W. P. Carey (WPC) Next. Era Energy (NEE) Discounted municipals (BLE, NVG, NZF)
You Have Questions, I Have Answers
- Right product right place right time right price
- Right time right place right quantity right quality
- X.next = x.next.next
- You put the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable
- The right man on the right place at the right time
- Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- The distinction between right and wrong lies at the
- Lex aeterna meaning
- Two rights don't make a wrong
- Act utilitarianism
- Lately i been i been losing sleep
- There is no wrong way to do the right thing
- Wrong or right
- Ethical standards examples
- Ethics discovering right and wrong
- Whats wrong with niamh cullen
- Whats wrong with this graph
- What is this
- Whats wrong with this photo
- Objective of revision
- Whats wrong
- Whats wrong with this picture