Sat.Aug 03, 2024

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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller House Price Index Up 5.9% YoY

Calculated Risk

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. • Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 5.9% year-over-year in May • Inflation Adjusted House Prices 1.9% Below 2022 Peak • Freddie Mac House Price Index Increased Slightly in June; Up 5.1% Year-over-year • Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rate Mostly Unchanged in June, Multi-family Increased • Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year This is usually published 4 to 6 times a w

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Three Falling Method Candlestick Pattern – Trading Ideas And More

Trade Brains

Candlestick patterns are important for traders looking to understand price movements. The patterns that appear on candlestick charts during a certain time frame give clues about potential trend reversals, continuations, or market indecision. In this article, we’ll take an in-depth look into the Three Falling Method candlestick pattern, analyzing its importance, features, and strategies with the help of chart examples.

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Schedule for Week of August 4, 2024

Calculated Risk

This will be a light week for economic data. The key report this week is the June Trade Deficit. -- Monday, August 5th -- 10:00 AM: the ISM Services Index for July. The consensus is for a reading of 51.3, up from 48.8. 2:00 PM: Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) for July. -- Tuesday, August 6th -- 8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for June from the Census Bureau.

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Small-Cap Stocks Bolstered by Possibility of Interest Rate Cuts

Advisor Perspectives

While election news dominated July's headlines, small-cap stocks had their best monthly performance relative to large-cap stocks since December 2000.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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Buzzword Alert!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Hedgeweek reported on an expected uptick in portable alpha strategies offered by investment firms and hedge funds. Portable alpha is just a fancy term that ties in with return stacking and capital efficiency. Basically you allocate most of a portfolio to beta, plainer vanilla, not necessarily just Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) but you could and then add some sort of alpha seeking strategy on top of the beta.

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Jobs Report Should Put a Jumbo Fed Rate Cut on the Table

Advisor Perspectives

In markets and economics, you sometimes have to hold two thoughts in your head simultaneously — an important lesson on a day in which the US unemployment rate unexpectedly surged to its highest in nearly three years.

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JPMorgan, Citi See Fed Dealing Two Half-Point Rate Cuts in 2024

Advisor Perspectives

Wall Street banks are calling for aggressive interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve based on the latest evidence that the labor market is cooling.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith : Tech companies are spending as if AI’s transformative uses are a foregone conclusion. They’re not. ( The Atlantic ) see also Sequoia Capital invested early in Google, Nvidia, and Apple.

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Is the Age of Plenty Over?

Advisor Perspectives

We have been talking about resiliency-driven inflation for the past several weeks. As the US and its Western allies realign supply chains to strengthen economic resiliency, the cost of certain goods and commodities will go up.

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Saturday links: being present

Abnormal Returns

EVs Why automakers are boosting small vehicle production: price. (axios.com) What a year with a leased Ford ($F) Mach-E has been like. (wsj.com) A (fun) year with a Ford ($F) Mach-E. (charlotteledger.substack.com) What it's like to charge an EV on a road trip these days. (npr.org) Transport How robot cars can help ease traffic congestion. (theconversation.com) How cylindrical sails could reduce container ship fuel consumption.

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste