While the February Retail Sales Report headline figure came in as expected, thematic tailwinds and headwinds paved the way for those sectors that saw stronger retail sales and poured cold water on those that continue to contract.
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In this week’s program, Tematica’s cocktail mixologists, Chris Versace and Lenore Hawkins talk about everything from the market’s reaction to Trump’s speech before Congress to the widening divide between the real hard economic data reports coming in, and finally an in-depth conversation with boxed.com CEO Chieh Huang
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The last week has been a barn burner for a number of our positions on the Tematica Select List and this week we added a new Disruptive Technology position, while another reports its quarterly earnings this week.
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Amid the earnings deluge, we’ve gotten a number of confirming thematic data points, and yes, we’re going to share them with you as well as take some defensive measures to protect our current gains.
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This morning the US Bureau of Economic Analysis published its take on Personal Income & Spending for December. We’re rather fond of this monthly report given the data contained within and the implications for several of our investment themes, including Cash-strapped Consumers as well as Affordable Luxury and the Rise & Fall of the Middle […]
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Earlier this month we had CES 2017 in Las Vegas, a techie’s mecca of new whiz-bang products set to hit the market, in some cases later this year, but in others in 2018 and beyond. A person tracking the CES trade shows over the years likely remembers the changes in inputs from clunky keyboards and […]
read more »Among the sea of announcements at CES 2017, there were a number that focused on one aspect of our Disruptive Technology investing theme prompting us to make a new addition to the Tematica Select Investment List this week.
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Looking through our thematic lens we see a number of investing themes performed extremely well for 2016
read more »With all of the indices firmly in overbought territory, how likely are we to see the Santa Claus rally that traditionally comes at the end of December?
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Digital shopping blazed the consumer spending path over the last several days, firmly cementing the shift that is driving several of our Connected Society positions. This week we add another position to fully round out our Connected Society portfolio.
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