Bryan Perry
Future Electric Vehicle (EV) Electricity Demand Bullish for Utilities
This past weekend, MarketWatch ran an article titled “Tesla’s Musk Says U.S. Electric Production Needs to Double to Power Transition to EV Vehicles” (October 3, 2021). With most of the attention paid toward electric vehicle (EV) companies and to some extent battery manufacturers, there is little discussion about how transforming the personal and commercial transportation […]
Energy Sector Makes a Case as Best Inflation Hedge
As the world’s energy policies, technologies and investment capital pour into renewable sources that include solar, wind, biomass, hydropower and tidal energy, Wall Street and most of the institutional and retail investment communities have lost that loving feeling for fossil fuel stocks. In fact, many investment funds are restricting the purchase of oil and gas […]
Small-Cap Index Reaches a Key Inflection Point
This past week saw a number of potential market headwinds emerge that pressured the major averages lower. Mixed data showing higher inflation at the wholesale level, tame inflation at the consumer level, surprisingly strong retail sales, upbeat manufacturing in the New York region and subdued consumer confidence, pushed Treasury yields marginally higher on a net […]
Fed Likely To Tamp Down Taper Talk
The U.S. economy may well be in the midst of a soft patch due to a very stubborn COVID-19 virus and some persistent inflation brought on by the ongoing global supply chain disruptions. Friday’s Producer Price Index (PPI) reading put a spotlight on the bottlenecks producers are contending with to manage profit margins. The PPI […]
Covered-Call Strategies Are Timely High-Yield Plays
As long as the U.S. economy is continuing to grow, and by nearly every measure, it looks that way, then, investors who are on the hunt for high-yield income should have some exposure to covered-call strategies. The quest for big yield in many of the asset classes is turning up little, if anything, of value, […]
The Highest Yields That Make Perfect Sense
This past Friday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell delivered an amazingly dovish speech at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that caught the market pleasantly flat-footed. Within the body of his speech, Powell stated that substantial further progress has been met to achieve targeted inflation. He added that if the economy evolved broadly as anticipated, it could be appropriate […]