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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): David R. Kotok | Thu October 27, 2022
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Wed October 26, 2022
The FOMC will be meeting November 1–2, but there will be no projection materials to inform the public if there are significant changes in the Committee’s outlook. Thus, the Beige Book and a first reading on Q3 GDP will be the major sources of current information on the state of the economy and…
Author(s): William H. Witherell, Ph.D. | Tue October 25, 2022
As this is being written, the UK’s Conservative Party is in the final stage of selecting a new leader, who will then be the next Prime Minister, following the resignation of Liz Truss after only 45 days on the job.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun October 23, 2022
When John Mousseau, Patty Healy, and I discussed ESG factors at the Rowan University-GIC conference, we and others tried to explain the multifactor analysis used in applying the tools of ESG. We will be offering videos of the conference in a future part of the ESG series. John…
Author(s): Patricia Healy, CFA | Fri October 21, 2022
The trends that we experienced in the second quarter — rising inflation, increasing geopolitical risks, declines in both stock and bond markets, and the risk of recession posed by Fed actions to fight inflation — continued into the third quarter.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu October 20, 2022
The classic formula is simple. Take the population growth rate and add to it the change in the productivity of the working portion of the population and you get the growth rate of the economy in real terms. Inflation changes the nominal pricing of the elements.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon October 17, 2022
There are many positive analyses demonstrating the importance of ESG.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Wed October 12, 2022
Fred Feldkamp gave us permission to share this exceptional history lesson, which includes work on credit spreads, markets, war, and the defining characteristics of our country’s national durability. Fred is a retired lawyer with skills in the securities and financial services business and a…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun October 9, 2022
A number of readers responded thoughtfully to the second installment in our series on ESG, which was focused on water system woes in Jackson, Mississippi: “ESG Part 2: Jackson, Mississippi.” ESG Part 1 introduced the series and the upcoming ESG conference at Rowan University on October 14.…
Author(s): Robert Eisenbeis, Ph.D. | Fri October 7, 2022
On Tuesday, the Labor Department released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data for the month of August. Given that we are already a week into October, that reading on the labor market is really for the second month of the third quarter is a bit old.