With the stock market S&P 500 climbing to new heights, ignoring a potential constitutional crisis brewing in Washington DC while in the Middle East long-time partners are cutting ties with Qatar and potentially threatening the Strait of Hormuz, there is a question that HSBC’s global Economist James Pomeroy wants to be answered. Is the stock market flying higher in the face of unprecedented uncertainty “As good as it gets?” As soft data diverges from hard data much like the stock and bond markets have diverged, which will turn out correct? The Goldilocks market environment persists Looking at an inflation map…
As Good As It Gets?
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.