By: Ken Rietz | On: July 5, 2023 |
There are several different avenues of approach that have emerged to combat climate change. One is carbon reduction which includes the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. Subsequently, a new […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: September 12, 2018 |
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) are the first US companies to cross the one trillion dollar market cap ribbon, with Apple winning by a nose. (They are not the first […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: July 19, 2018 |
This commentary is an overview of Emerging Markets (EMs). We begin with a brief review of their recent trends, then explore common factors that affect most every EM (such as […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: June 7, 2018 |
Instead of attempting to cover all areas of emerging markets in one report, we are going to split them over several weeks and cover specific countries. This week we will […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: April 12, 2018 |
This week we continue our review of the different sectors within the S&P and in the commentary below we discuss the industrial sector. Overall, the industrial sector globally is healthy […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: March 14, 2018 |
The financial sector is vast; we can only give a high-level overview. We will cover US equity markets, international bonds, US market managers, world equities markets, derivatives markets, banks, and […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: January 18, 2018 |
The transportation sector can be divided into regional transportation (train, road, and airplane) and global transportation which is largely comprised of maritime shipping. Although this division is not very precise […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: December 21, 2017 |
The healthcare sector is a growing and complex part of the economy, particularly in the US. The certainties and uncertainties of an aging Baby Boomer population who will expect virtually […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: December 6, 2017 |
Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be discussing our views on particular sectors which in our opinion may present some challenges and opportunities. This week we […]
By: Ken Rietz | On: October 9, 2017 |
Market Action Movement regarding the U.S. budget and tax reform helped propel the S&P 500 to an unusual 8 consecutive days of new high closings. On Friday, when the U.S. […]