Calculated Risk

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of November 17, 2024 Monday: • At 10:00 AM ET, The November NAHB homebuilder survey. The consensus is for a reading of 42, down from 44. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 5 and DOW futures are down 39 (fair value).

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A Wealth of Common Sense

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

People are terrible at self-regulation and self-awareness when it comes to eating. One study asked people how much bread they ate after leaving an Italian restaurant. Nearly one-third of the diners couldn’t recall how much they had. And 12% of the people who ate bread denied having eaten any at all. When asked how much food they consumed in a meal, people of average weight assume they’ve eaten 20% less than th.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Barron's had an article about Bill Ackman's closed end fund that trades in Amsterdam but is on the US pink sheets with symbol PSHZF. This post is not about that fund. There was a quote in there from Eric Boughton, one of the managers of the Matisse Discounted Closed End Fund Strategy (MDCEX). Matisse has a couple of funds of closed end funds that we've looked at before.

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Advisor Perspectives

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Traders see an interest-rate cut next month as a coin toss as resilient economic data empowers Federal Reserve officials to take a potentially more-cautious approach to easing.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

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Advisor Perspectives

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Elon Musk is ramping up his feud with Sam Altman, alleging in a court filing that OpenAI is trying to corner the market for generative artificial intelligence and sacrificing safety in a race to get ahead.

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oXYGen Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

![CDATA[ Are you considering leaving the United States post-election? According to a survey by Arton Capital, 53% of American millionaires are more inclined to move abroad after the election, regardless of the outcome. Among younger millionaires aged 18-29, interest in obtaining golden visas or second residencies is particularly high. While political factors may play a role for some, other reasons.

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Abnormal Returns

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Markets Another sign of investor optimism. (bsky.app) Palantir ($PLTR) stock is having a year. (sherwood.news) The market is recalibrating how much room the Fed has to cut. (disciplinefunds.com) Health care The NIH is in the crosshairs in a Trump administration. (npr.org) Medicare participants are switching back to traditional Medicare later in life.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • How the Ivy League Broke America : The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new. ( The Atlantic ) • The most dangerous roads in America have one thing in common : We can fix our staggering car fatality crisis. Start with these roads. ( Vox ) • Political Comedy, With a Side of Desperation : The comedian-to-campaign-influencer pipeline has muddled the genre. ( The Atlantic ) • She Was a Child Instag

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Abnormal Returns

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Newsletters If you haven't already you can sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter, please do. (abnormalreturns.com) And for financial advisors you can sign up for our weekly e-mail newsletter with industry insights and more. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week Lessons learned from watching markets for 37 years. (morningstar.com) The Trump trades are already played out.

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