Two “Disruption” topics today: #1: Tesla’s healthy earnings beat this afternoon and GAAP profits of +$1 billion got us to thinking about an age-old question: “As a shareholder, do you…
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S&P 500 Earnings: How High?
Two Data items today: #1: How much higher can S&P 500 earnings estimates go? Not to oversimplify, but this is essentially the only question that matters to US stocks and, by…
2H 2020’s Most Important Datasets
Earlier today we spoke on a panel hosted by Wall Street Horizon about the use of data in the investment process. The other speakers were both from the buyside and companies…
US Retail Investors: A Deep Dive
We usually dedicate part of Wednesday’s Data section to US retail investor fund flows, but today we’ll take a step back and do that plus address a few other more…
Real-Time US Consumer Spending Patterns: An Update
We continue to monitor US consumer behavior in real-time using non-traditional datasets as the domestic economy reopens. This has enabled us to call the end of 2020’s massive tech hardware upgrade…
History Says Volatility is Not Over
We have 2 “Data” items about US equity market volatility today: #1: At the end of June we showed you this chart, an analysis of seasonal patterns in the CBOE…