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Insider Buying Week 11-03-23 Insider Buying offers Clues as to where Bargains might Await

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The difference between the 10-year Treasury Bond yield and the S&P 500 dividend yield is the largest it’s been since 2007.  The spread between interest earned on Treasury Bills and dividends reached levels not seen in 40 years. ~5% money market rates and an S&P 500 dividend yield of 1.52% cannot coexist indefinitely. This is not a condition for equilibrium. Something must give. Great amounts of money will be made in getting this right. In the immortal words of Dylan, the poet laureate, “Something is happening here; But you don’t know what it is.” The market changed its narrative last week from higher for longer … Read more

‘s Really Quite Simple Buy Guns and Gas-Insider Buying Week 11-5-22

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A miserable week, down 3.46% for the bulls ended on a positive note on Friday. The narrative that the bottom was in now seems shaky as stalwarts AMZN, APPLE, MICROSOFT, ALPHABET, and  FACEBOOk all plumb new lows. One thing for certain, the hurdle rate for stocks and all things investment-related is much higher. The 10 Year Treasury yield of nearly 4.5% and the Prime rate of 7% are the new realities. We ain’t going back anytime soon to the halcyon days of near-zero interest rates. I keep repeating my mantra- All bear markets in the last 20 years have ended … Read more