After a historically miserable season in 2020, we went to the third best monsoon on record this year with 12.78 inches of rain.
Plan By Numbers Blog
Financial Planning simply illustrated by numbers, at our companion blog written by Denis Smirnov.
Do Market Fundamentals Support Price Run-Up?
Strong recent returns ARE a combination of earnings growth (expected to remain robust in the next few quarters as shown in Exhibit 2) and investors’ willingness to pay more for each dollar of those earnings (likely helped by Fed policies and lack of attractive alternatives).
What’s Driving The Market This Year?
S&P 500 index is up 19% so far this year, here I dig into the data on what’s driving it and what’s going on under the surface of the index.
2021 Mid-Year Review
S&P 500 has been steadily trending up all year and hasn’t been too far from all-time highs.
2020 Review: Economy Edition
Now that full-year GDP numbers are out I can finish the 2020 year-in-review series by taking a look at major economic indicators. Needless to say last year’s economic datapoints will be massive outliers on long-term charts for years and decades to come.
2020 Review: Sectors, Stocks & International
Let’s take a look at 2020 performance of the U.S. sectors and industries. Technology stocks had a banner year lead by semiconductors.
2020 Review: Significant Events and Major Asset Classes
Reviewing major stories of 2020 and how they affected the major asset class performance
COVID Stocks versus Reopening Basket
To analyze impact of major COVID developments, I created two baskets of stocks. Each is a simple equally-weighted 20-stock basket with 5% allocation to every company. I chose the stocks subjectively and tried to represent various “angles” of the COVID trade without having too many airlines, online retailers or medical plays.
Tucson Monsoon – 2020 Update
2020, true to form, gave us plenty to write home about on the weather front as well! Just a few unpleasant milestones from this summer in Tucson.
COVID Impact On Company Fundamentals
There were 38 companies in the S&P 500 with Q2 revenue decline of 50% or more. It makes sense that concerts, cruise operators, hotels/casinos, airlines and travel sites are heavily represented. There was very little activity in those areas in April, May and June. Energy sector is also featured prominently.