The Return of Hope, and Reflation   Rejoice, brothers and sisters… the reflation trade is back!   That’s what I told readers of the Weekly ETF Report on Wednesday, as I channeled my best preacher voice.   That’s because this week we saw very nice gains in the major indices, included a 1.5% jump in

On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “Buy American, Hire American.” The president said the order will protect American workers and those in the building and manufacturing trades. He also used the following rhetoric to drive home the point: “It’s America first, you better believe it. It’s time. It’s time,

Hope is not an investment strategy. That’s what Doug Fabian is fond of saying when describing how buy-and-hold investors approach the markets. They put their money in, and then hope the market won’t go down. Or, they put their money in, and just hope the markets will go up. Well, you subscribe to this service,

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On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to “Buy American, Hire American.” The president said the order will protect American workers and those in the building and manufacturing trades. He also used the following rhetoric to drive home the point: “It’s America first, you better believe it. It’s time. It’s time,

A recent asset sale has put me in the rare position of needing to make an oversized investment in my portfolio all at once. This gives me an ideal opportunity to go over with you my complete foundation—how I do things for me personally, and my thought process backing client investments at Richard C. Young

The flame of uncertainty in markets can be fueled by many different things. Bad economic data and bad earnings are usually the big drivers of an uncertainty-induced sell-off. And while the recent data on the jobs front was lackluster, the economic sentiment indicators have been good. Even the early earnings reports from bellwether banks JPMorgan

I love literature, and I studied the art intensely during my college years. While most of my time these days is focused on finding the best exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for my subscribers to own, I still devote a block of time each week to reading and studying literary fiction. Aristotle once wrote that fiction is

Alternating currents, force a show of hands Rational responses, force a change of plans… — RUSH, “Prime Mover” In last Friday’s Hotline, I told you that markets had essentially shrugged off the policy defeat of health care reform and pivoted to the issues Wall Street really cares about… corporate tax reform and infrastructure spending. This

Investors are feeling pretty good these days. How do I know this? Well, over the past few months there have been multiple sentiment indicators that have come in very strong. The latest was a recent Pew Research poll that showed nearly six in 10 people in the United States (58%) think the economic situation is