No brakes in Bernanke’s racecar, the only question is how hard to
press the accelerator and the markets demand pedal to the metal. The mere mention of easing up for the turns
was like throwing marbles on the racecourse and like we suggested yesterday, a glance
at our home screen provides an interesting
view of the worldwide reactions.
Interesting to us anyway, because our finely honed machines
handled the adverse conditions splendidly.
The Geographic Indices show Latin America and Middle East & Africa both
down more than 3% while Europe and Asia-Pacific each lost more than 2%. In that context, the US broad market funds
that have been dominating the ranks look like winners losing less than
1.5%. Under the Sector tab, all 10 were down
on the day but the Energy and Info Tech Indices kept their losses to less than
1% and readers know those have been leading the recent sector recommendations
of our Quant and Green Diamond Reward models.
The yellow flag must be out because those same funds mostly continue in
their positions.
International funds provided accurate price discovery for their
markets that had yet to open as overnight trading has largely confirmed
yesterday’s moves in the US based ETFs.
Today brings another lap of racing and we will be watching the iShares
MSCI Canada and Italy Index Funds (EWC and EWI), the only foreign names
in today’s top 10 at 2nd and 9th place. Quant doesn’t make short term calls but both
have decent Fundamental Scores and elevated sentiment readings for that extra
kick of octane. Both of our Dynamic
indices contain 4 foreign funds which mostly outperformed their peers helping their indices outperform the S&P 500 in yesterday’s smashup.
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