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Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sat February 12, 2022
The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team. These are not revised assessments, and circumstances may have changed in the market from the time of original publication. We may include older commentaries that our…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri February 11, 2022
Using the most recent report of the Consumer Price Index monthly change, the inflation rate in the US is now over 7%. Some commentary calls this “running hot.”
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…Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed February 9, 2022
On December 2, we examined the credit spread with high-grade corporate bonds. Here’s the link to that short commentary, titled “Credit Spreads Widening”: https://www.cumber.com/market-commentary/credit-spreads-widening.
Today, we are looking at the same type of history…
Author(s): Matthew C. McAleer | Wed February 9, 2022
Dear Clients & Friends, Matthew C. McAleer, executive vice president & director of equity strategies at Cumberland Advisors joins Dorsey Wright & Associates (DWA) analyst Ian Saunders to discuss the recent market action in semiconductors and how DWA charts…
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Tue February 8, 2022
The press painted an extremely positive picture about the January jobs numbers, but digging deeper into the jobs data for January from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveals some cautions as well as additional positives and interesting facts about the impact of the pandemic on the jobs…
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Mon February 7, 2022
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy created 467,000 jobs in the month of January, while the unemployment rate remained constant at 4%, as did the participation rate (62.2%). This number was about twice the 207,000 predicted by some economists and notably different from…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun February 6, 2022
Since this comment was queued for today, CDC has announced a vigorous campaign to use wastewater data; more information will be forthcoming. -Kotok
ImageFor the first time, the CDC will publish data that looks at how much…
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sat February 5, 2022
Cumberland Advisors Week in Review
Week of Jan 31, 2022 - Feb 04, 2022 Today's Date: February 05, 2022 Email | About
The Cumberland Advisors Week in Review is a recap of news, commentary, and opinion from our team. These are not revised…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu February 3, 2022
We previously offered readers a 36-chart series on Beveridge curves (https://www.cumber.com/market-commentary/sunday-beveridge-curves).
ImageThis time we offer two charts. They depict the Phillips…
Author(s): William H. Witherell, Ph.D. | Tue February 1, 2022
As the first month of 2022 ends, the performances of the Eurozone’s individual national economies and equity markets vary widely, reflecting differences in the timing and extent of the waves of Covid, in the measures taken to combat the pandemic, in the structures of the economies, and in…