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Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary offers insights and analysis on upcoming, important economic issues that potentially impact global financial markets. Our team shares their thinking on global economic developments, market news and other factors that often influence investment opportunities and strategies. Our readers appreciate its timeliness, depth of analysis, and quality of research.
Author(s): Patricia Healy, CFA | Tue November 20, 2018
Today’s municipal bond market is anything but “sleepy,” as Spencer Jakab characterized it in his Wall Street Journal article “Prophet of Muni Market Doom Wasn’t Wrong, Just Early” (10/26/2018). The Prophet of Doom he referred to was Meredith Whitney, who shortly before the financial crisis…
Author(s): | Mon November 19, 2018
Author(s): William Witherell, Ph.D. | Sat November 17, 2018
On November 13, British Prime Minister Theresa May and her Brexit negotiating team reached agreement with the European Union (EU) negotiators on a draft withdrawal treaty. The next day, after a very difficult five-hour meeting, May secured the agreement of her cabinet.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri November 16, 2018
The United States seems to be losing the ill-conceived Trump-Navarro trade war. The evidence of this loss continues to mount.
Author(s): Leo Chen, Ph.D. | Thu November 15, 2018
Our quantitative strategy at Cumberland Advisors is a trading model that combines fundamental indicators and quantitative analysis into a binary output – either fully invested or all in cash. The strategy trades the S&P 500 in two versions: unleveraged and leveraged. Specifically, the…
Author(s): Patricia Healy, CFA | Wed November 14, 2018
Last week we conducted a review of our California municipal bond holdings along the San Andreas Fault looking for holdings that may be more susceptible to credit deterioration in the event of a disaster. At the time, little did we know that wildfires would engulf large swaths of California.
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Tue November 13, 2018
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 also include older commentaries that our editors have determined may be…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu November 8, 2018
“In 2016, President Trump pledged to eliminate the national debt ‘over a period of eight years’ (“In a revealing interview, Trump predicts a ‘massive recession’ but intends to eliminate the national debt in 8 years,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-turmoil-or-triumph-donald-trump-…
Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Thu November 8, 2018
Here’s our first take after the midterm elections.
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun November 4, 2018
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 also include older commentaries that our editors have determined may be…