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  • Q2 2024 Total Return Gov/Credit Review
     Author(s): Daniel Himelberger | Wed June 26, 2024

    CA-Daniel-Himelberger - Q1 2024 Review - Total Return Gov & Credit


    During the second quarter of 2024, the Treasury market experienced heightened volatility as market participants tried to predict when the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates. The 10-year Treasury yield fluctuated between a high of 4.705% and a low of 4.222% over the course of the…


  • Three, Two, One – When?
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Tue June 25, 2024

    Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D.


    Going into January 2024, the FOMC’s December Summary of Economic Projections (SEPs) had three rate cuts penciled in for 2024, and that projection was confirmed in the March SEPs. In the intervening period between that meeting and the FOMC’s June meeting, a number of developments in terms of…


  • Q2 2024 CIO Overview & Outlook
     Author(s): | Mon June 24, 2024



    “It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Who said it? Niels Bohr? Yogi Berra? Mark Twain? The answer is at the end of this quarterly commentary.

     


  • Cuba Updated
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun June 23, 2024

    Cuba Updated


    A Cuba Update (June 2024) 


  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review + Digest Jun 17 - Jun 21, 2024
     Author(s): Norm Dempsey, MBA | Sat June 22, 2024

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  • France
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri June 21, 2024

    France


    How can you govern a country with two hundred thirty-eight varieties of cheese?”― François Mitterrand, President of France, 1981–1995 


  • Putin, Maduro, Oil, Defense
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon June 17, 2024

    Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - Putin, Maduro, Oil, Defense by David R. Kotok


    IMO, America’s enemy, Mr. V. Putin, is using his Venezuelan proxy, Nicolás Maduro, to open a third front against the US. At the end of this discussion is a list of citations in support of my view. 


  • 51 Years!
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun June 16, 2024

    51 Years!


    Who’da thunk it? 51 years ago (June 18, 1973) my co-founding partner, Sheldon “Shep” Goldberg (deceased) and I received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission informing us that Cumberland Advisors was legally registered as an investment advisory firm. And we’re still around. And…


  • High-Tech Bubble Valuation? I'm Not So Sure!
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Tue June 11, 2024

    Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - High-Tech Bubble Valuation - I'm Not So Sure! by David R. Kotok


    While respectful citizens observed D-Day commemorations, 80 years on, another invasion occurred on June 6th of this year. Barron’s summarized it like this: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL) and Nvidia (NVDA) are each worth a little more than $3 trillion. Nvidia’s market capitalization…
  • Hearts and Bones
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun June 9, 2024

    Hearts and Bones


    Mexico. A remarkable political change yields a government where women head the branches and the presidency and fill other roles. Shortly after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as the nation's first woman president, another woman was murdered while in her capacity as mayor of a Mexican city. As Paul…

 

 

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