The S&P 500 Index closed out the first quarter of 2013 on a high note. At 1569, the index reached a new high on the last day of trading in…
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OppChart Weekly: Eurozone Bailouts—This Time Is Different
Another year, another disaster-averting deal. The latest installment of the Eurozone sovereign debt saga took us to Cyprus, a tiny Mediterranean island with a population on par with Rhode Island…
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OppChart Weekly: A New Reason to Rethink Bonds
In this week’s OppChart, we explore the correlations between the various sectors of the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index and the broad index. For much of the 30 years leading…
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OppChart Weekly: The Fed’s Tough Path Back to ‘Normal’
The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has more than tripled, to more than $3 trillion, since the 2008 global financial crisis as a result of large scale asset purchases — quantitative…
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OppChart Weekly: Stocks Are Making History Right Now
Over the past year we’ve highlighted that equities, on many measures, appear to be as cheap to U.S. Treasuries as they have been in decades. Stocks’ earnings yield (the inverse…
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