Consumer Discretionary
Highlights The housing market is tight, but not undersupplied, as the construction of new homes has kept up with the pace of household formation. Demand for homes should remain well supported as household formation has room to increase and the economy recovers from the pandemic-induced crisis…
Highlights The use of physical distancing and face masks restricts any activity that requires the use of your mouth and nose in proximity to others. We estimate that this restriction could wipe out 10 percent of jobs. Hence, as government lifelines to employers are cut, expect permanent…
Book Gains In the Intra-Real Estate Pair Trade And Move To The Sidelines…
Our intra-real estate pair trade long S&P homebuilders / short S&P REITs vaulted roughly to the 15% return mark intraday yesterday, compelling us to institute a 5% rolling stop in order to protect handsome profits since the late-May inception. Our thesis for putting on this market-neutral…
Time For A Breather?…
Protecting Profits In Internet Retail…
Auto Stocks: Deep Value Or Investment Trap…
The Fed’s efforts to jawbone the US dollar are paying off as investors have been shedding their greenback exposure over the past several weeks. In recent research,1 we have also been highlighting that although Powell would never admit it, the Fed is trying to devalue the greenback and reflate the…
Overweight (Downgrade Alert)
Home Improvement Retailers Are On Downgrade Watch…
Dear client, It was my pleasure to join Dhaval Joshi, BCA’s Chief European Investment Strategist, this past Friday June 12, 2020 on a webcast he hosted titled: “Sectors To Own, And Sectors To Avoid In The Post-Covid World”. You can access the replay of the lively webcast here, where Dhaval and I…