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  •  View from the Observation Deck In a previous post (click here), we noted that Jerome Powell’s commentary to the Financial Services Committee on 7/9/24 appeared to have set the stage […]
  •  View from the Observation DeckThe yield on the 10-year Treasury note (T-note) sat at an all-time low of 0.51% on 8/4/20, according to data from Bloomberg. The 10-year T-note’s yield […]
  •  View from the Observation Deck We update this post on small-capitalization (cap) stocks every now and then so that investors can see which of the two styles (growth or value) […]
  •  View from the Observation Deck Total assets invested in covered call strategies have been growing rapidly over the past several years. Data from Morningstar Direct revealed that net assets in […]
  •  View from the Observation Deck We update this post on an ongoing basis to provide investors with insight into the earnings beat rate for the companies that comprise the S&P […]

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