Cocktail Investing

Shifts in Investor Sentiment Lead to Big Pain in the Markets

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Sinopsis

  On this week’s podcast Tematica Research’s®mixologists, Lenore Hawkins and Chris Versace, tackle the recent shifts in investor sentiment that led to some big pain this week in the US stock market. They trace the impetus for the recent moves back to the data and comments they shared several weeks ago with listeners of the podcast and in their Tematica Research writings. Simply put there has been a melt up in investor worries as a confluence of concerns have come to the forefront of the investing conversation: Signs of a slowing US economy Rising interest rates Growing signs of inflation that call into question the Fed’s velocity of rate hikes More pain at the gas pump Potentially even more escalation in tariffs between the US and China; Rising Italy-Eurozone tensions What all this may mean for both consumer and corporate borrowings and subsequent spending   These are the same concerns that led to the addition of call option short position in an inverse S&P 500 ETF in Tematica Options+ that closed last