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Preface to all four parts: This weekend, I’ve taken some favorite exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and broken them into groups. I’ll share a few thoughts about each of these below, and as always, clicking on any chart will make it fill your screen, whatever size that may be.
Let’s jump outside North America and look at the big funds. The emerging markets has been incredibly weak for a very long time, and it couldn’t even muster getting past that horizontal last week, even at the market’s strongest.
Big cities have always had “society“. Opening night at the opera, the ballet, art galleries, the whole schmear – – rich people love to see and be seen. After all, what else are they going to do with their time?
New York City is the king of this kind of thing, but little San Francisco certainly has its fair share of society pages, articles, and reviews. I see a lot of the same faces over and over again (including people I know), and I think it’s frankly a bit psychotic to be so obsessed with seeing your picture in print in every single issue of Nob Hill Gazette or whatever else it is you think your friends read.
I saw one this morning which, for obvious reasons, got my attention…………
For what it’s worth………….if nothing else, I like maps!
Preface to all four parts: This weekend, I’ve taken some favorite exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and broken them into groups. I’ll share a few thoughts about each of these below, and as always, clicking on any chart will make it fill your screen, whatever size that may be.
Let’s look at some specific sectors. The first is a favorite, which is the homebuilders. It has been in an ascending channel for many years, and it has completed a remarkably good topping pattern within the confines of that channel. I believe it could get as low as the lower trendline, ultimately.
