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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.

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  • Cumberland Advisors Week in Review (Dec 24, 2018 - Dec 28, 2018)
     Author(s): Cumberland Advisors | Sun December 30, 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…


  • 4Q2018 Review: Munis Turn It Around
     Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Sun December 30, 2018




  • Yogi Berra, the Fed’s Balance Sheet, and Liquidity
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Sat December 29, 2018



    The story is that the Fed’s quantitative easing program injected large amounts of liquidity into financial markets, causing bond rates to fall and stock prices to accelerate. Consequently, the argument goes that, the shrinking of the Fed’s balance sheet through maturity runoff will cause bond…


  • Yogi Berra, the Fed’s Balance Sheet, and Liquidity
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Sat December 29, 2018



    The story is that the Fed’s quantitative easing program injected large amounts of liquidity into financial markets, causing bond rates to fall and stock prices to accelerate. Consequently, the argument goes that, the shrinking of the Fed’s balance sheet through maturity runoff will cause bond…


  • More Evidence Supporting a 60/40 Portfolio
     Author(s): Gabriel Hament | Tue December 25, 2018



    Earlier this summer we wrote about the FY 2017 returns (July 1, 2016 – June 31, 2017) reported in the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments® (NCSE).[1]


  • Happy Holidays!
     Author(s): John R. Mousseau, CFA | Tue December 25, 2018



    We wish all the best to our readers and friends for the holidays. We hope you enjoy some great days with your families and friends and look forward to a prosperous 2019. We wish a great new year for all of you and particularly those less fortunate. And hope everyone in their own ways…


  • Market Backlash
     Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Sat December 22, 2018



    The Treasury market had priced in a 25-basis-point increase in the FOMC’s target range for federal funds prior to the FOMC’s December 18–19 meeting. The Committee was faced with essentially three policy options: Pause, deliver on the 25-basis-point increase and signal a pause, or deliver on the…


  • Stock Market and Tariff Truce
     Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sat December 22, 2018



    We constantly get email defending the Trump-Navarro Trade War policy. The critics outnumber the defenders, but we can observe that both sides of this debate are digging in their heels.


  • Is Climate Warming Creating More Dangerous Hurricanes?
     Author(s): Bob Bunting | Sat December 22, 2018



    Two Hard-Hitting Hurricane Seasons


 

 

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