Does the bank rally stall? Reading Warren Buffet’s letter this past weekend, bank investors might wonder why Berkshire’s investment heads dumped so many banks near the bottom. After all, banks are not far behind airlines and wildcatters in line to benefit...
The friendly folks at Goldman recently ran a regression of which sectors do well with rising rates. If you can’t read the chart below, rising rates are bad for stocks in the consumer, utilities, and software sectors, while they tend to support energy and...
We’ll skip the Charlie Munder quotes; it’s broadly apparent that we live in different times: US Debt: Inflation is the Only Way to Manage It (Treasury Dept) Nervousness is rational: Normally we don’t see policymakers launch gargantuan, two-pronged...
Improve portfolio growth by avoiding the “clones” Owning typical banks can be a losers game. Most banks compete on price, fight low rates, and miss out on innovations like digital currencies. For these reasons among others, regional banks have lagged the...
We lost a lot in 2020, but we are getting a lot of it back in 2021. One bit of good news apparent in fourth quarter earnings calls is the coming return of the bank merger and merger premium. Connecting the dots to create a portfolio of likely acquisitions should be a...
