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Change Your Perspective

The Big Picture

Monthly NFP is likely the single most overrated economic data point in the US, while the intermediate term employment trend is the most underrated. Fair Value : Valuation of equities is one of those things that seems to confuse so many. What really matters is the series trend: Are we consistently creating jobs over time?

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

While some of that outperformance was due to improving fundamentals and earnings, most of it the returns came from the valuation investors assigned to these stocks. The chart below shows that of the tech sector’s 760% total return, 620% came from the change (increase) in valuation while 140% came from increasing earnings and dividends.

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Paul Singer, Who Predicted The Economic Crises, On What’s Next

Validea

With valuations still high, the threat of a recession still looms over the economy, ushering in a prolonged period of low returns across the market, from stocks and real estate to corporate profits, as well as elevated inflation and unemployment rates. But for long-term prosperity in the U.S.

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Weekly Market Insights – October 23, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Yields rose after traders speculated that strong economic data might persuade the Fed to raise rates. Economic Strength, Housing Weakness The economy continued to evidence surprising strength according to data released last week. Existing home sales are on track to record their slowest year since 2011. Durable Goods Orders.

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Where do we stand in the equity market cycle?

Truemind Capital

Sentiment cycles move from one extreme of greed to another extreme of fear which takes valuations also to extremes from their long-term averages. At the extreme of fear sentiment (which coincides with dirt-cheap valuations), the risk-reward is highly favorable i.e., higher potential upside with lower potential downside risk.

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Present at the Creation: Early-Stage Venture Capital

Brown Advisory

In 2011, a Tel Aviv-based startup called Cyvera began developing cybersecurity software deploying the coding equivalents of barriers and traps to thwart hackers staging potentially devastating “zero-day attacks.” Less than two years later, Palo Alto Networks purchased the company for $200 million—a more than 25-fold surge in valuation.

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Weekly Market Insights – March 6, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

4 Disconcerting Economic Data It was a relatively quiet week for economic news, but several new economic data reports gave insights into overall activity. This Week: Key Economic Data Monday: Factory Orders. Source: Econoday, March 3, 2023 The Econoday economic calendar lists upcoming U.S. What nation is this?