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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): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Fri December 14, 2018
Back in the 1980s Professor Edward Kane coined the term regulatory dialectic to capture the dynamics of how regulated financial institutions found innovative ways to circumvent regulations designed to restrict their behavior. For example, banks adopted the one-bank holding company form in the late…
Author(s): | Wed December 12, 2018
Gary Shilling is an icon of our finance industry. His monthly missive is priceless. Fred Rossi edits and researches. The work product is extraordinary. We thank them for permission to share the December monthly in full. The trigger for our request was their thorough examination of the climate-…
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun December 9, 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…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sat December 8, 2018
Peter Boockvar summarized a view of this Pearl Harbor Day employment report. We agree with him.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri December 7, 2018
“We’ll not mince words here: The president’s characterization of himself as “Tariff Man” is juvenile and unpresidential. We cannot imagine Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Ford, Mr. Carter, Mr. Reagan, Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Bush or Mr. Obama ever... EVER... making a…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu December 6, 2018
The January 25th GIC-USFSM conference on adaptive climate change, Adapting to a Changing Climate: Challenges & Opportunities, to be held at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, includes discussion of fires as well as hurricanes.
Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Wed December 5, 2018
Here’s our first take after the midterm elections. The last three weeks of November have seen a bounce in the bond market, with intermediate and longer bond yields falling after spending most of 2018 rising.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed December 5, 2018
David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors comments on the Trump-Navarro Trade War with China and its consequences for markets.
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Tue December 4, 2018
In another week the FOMC will have its final meeting of 2018 and its last with the current mix of policy makers. Already, the discussion has turned to what the Committee will do at that and subsequent meetings: Will it proceed with further 25bp increases in the target range for the federal funds…
Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Mon December 3, 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…