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The Ataraxia (Tranquility) of the Market and Its Breath: Stoic, Epicurean, or Sceptic?

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 23, 2017 | Commentaries

It has been well-recorded that the equity market’s volatility is pretty low by historical standards as the following 10-year graph shows. This kind of ataraxia (tranquility) may be the equivalent of the period when the Platonic and Aristotelian Schools of Thought were...

Corporate Earnings, Equities Trajectory, and Risks: Considering the Purchase of Cheap Insurance

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 17, 2017 | Commentaries

Over the course of the past several months we have reiterated the point that good growth earnings provide market justification for further rises in the equities market. We continue supporting that thesis and we still hold the view that future earnings for the next...

Commodities, Volatility, and Cryptocurrencies: Some Initial Thoughts

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 10, 2017 | Commentaries

Commodity prices usually follow long cycles. As the graph below shows, commodities enjoyed a good run from the early 1990s to the dawn of the financial crisis and recovered pretty quickly from the crisis, then experienced a downward trajectory for about five years...

Market Signals, the Economic Cycle, and Enthymemes: Which Sectors Could Benefit?

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 3, 2017 | Commentaries

We have written before that the financial stress index produced by the St. Louis Fed is a very reliable indicator regarding potential dark clouds in the economic and financial horizons. As can be seen in the graph below (updated as of the end of July), the index...

Cheapening the Currency: The Wrong Way Forward

by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 27, 2017 | Commentaries

In the last few commentaries we have noted that while equity markets may be stretched, there might still be room to grow given the current macro-circumstances, corporate earnings, and business sentiment. In this week’s commentary we would let some graphs do the...
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