When Irrationality Triumphs Sensibility

Last week, Blackstone announced that it will limit investor redemptions from its $69 billion Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT) in December after being hit with heavy withdrawals in October and November. For those who are not familiar with BREIT, Blackstone...

Happy Holidays

To all our clients and readers of this newsletter – Happy Thanksgiving and Seasons Greetings. It has been a tough year for investors with the S&P 500 down 16% ytd and Nasdaq down 29% ytd. Surprisingly, the Dow Jones is only down by 5.5% ytd, a reflection of...

The Fed hammers the stock market once again

Just as he did in August, on Wednesday this week, the Federal Reserve chair talked tough on inflation, squashing investor hopes of a decisive pivot away from tightening monetary policy and knocking stocks to the lowest in more than a week. The S&P 500 Index fell...

The decay in global leadership

This report could be about the recent bear market rally, Kanye West’s implosion or UK Prime Minister’s exit after just 44 days in office. But, we would like to divert our readers’ attention to something more fundamentally unsettling.  Ex-President Trump will likely be...

Hard landing is here as the economy faces new risks

CPI reading of 8.2% for September, barely down from 8.3% in August showed how sticky inflation has become a part of the US economy. Wall Street was clearly not prepared for it with concerns that price pressures are getting entrenched leaving the S&P 500 down 1.6%...

Who Is Going To Get This Right? The Fed Or The Market

The S&P 500 posted its worst weekly performance since mid-June, slumping 4.78% for the five-day session. The losses came on the back of a solid 3.65% gain last week. The selling pressure started on Tuesday after a hotter than anticipated consumer price inflation...