As Treasury is looking to refinance significant portion of it’s short term treasuries, investors demand will remain a question. It was mentioned multiple times over last tow years that China significantly reduced their treasury holdings. More recently we seen Japan…
Investors entered the past year optimistic that micro-cap stocks would experience a significant rally, driven by expectations of economic resilience, supportive monetary policy shifts to monetary easing, and attractive valuations. However, the much-anticipated micro-cap resurgence failed to materialize, leaving investors…
There is the interesting return of a debate about share buybacks, as they have reached new all-time records, amounting to USD 1 trillion in 2024 and contributed to the US budget USD 7.4 billion through taxes on buybacks introduced in…
REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) offer investors an attractive combination of income, diversification, and potential capital appreciation. As of the end of 2024 and the start of 2025, many REITs are trading at multiples significantly lower than historical averages. Valuations…
Investors often go through period of hightened risk aversion and focus too much on avoid losses while ignoring the opportunties. Ther are many reason that can motivate investor to stay out of the market, including: Whichever reason overly risk averse…
Inflation is cooling, due to restrictive monetary policy that is starting to impact the aggregated demand. Main tool used by the central bank to reduce aggregated demand is interest rates increases. Higher rates are helping to reduce consumption through making…
For over a decade Wall Street has been repeating that ‘There Is No Alternative’ (TINA) to equities, but this year for the first time Wall Street suggest ‘There Are Reasonable Alternatives’ (TARA). There is one reason for this significant shift…
Central banks are focusing on defeating persistently above-target inflation, by performing the most aggressive tightening in 4 decades: FED 500 bps since March 2022 (5% in 14 months) BOE 440 bps since December 2021 ECB 375 bps since July…