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Weekend Update 11/21/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Strong retail data leads market into start of holiday season ? ? Strong retail spending. Retail #earnings were strong highlighting #COVIDRecovery consumer demand remains intact despite #InflationFears. However, #SupplyScare issues remain heading into Q4. Consumer up +4% for week. Read More
Weekend Update 11/7/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Tapering coming, but Fed maintains slow approach ? Cautious Fed. As expected, Fed starting to taper asset purchases by $15B/month. However, Fed remains steadfast in transient #InflationFears expectations tempering rate hike forecast. 10-year Read More
Market Musings 11/3/2021 Quick thoughts on the markets and major portfolio news. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! We expect supply chain improvement starting early next year, but unfortunately, #SupplyScare is likely peaking in the all-important Q4 holiday season. It was a recurring theme this #earnings season. Company after company reported Read More
Weekend Update 10/31/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Supply chain issues spooking investors ? Supply shortages. #SupplyScare has companies scrambling to build and ship products. Component shortages, labor shortages, rising fuel costs and delayed logistics all compounding the issue. Not boding Read More
Market Musings 10/22/2021 Quick thoughts on the markets and major portfolio news. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Social Media sinking Friday on negative read thru from Snap’s earnings miss Snap shares fell over -25% today following #earnings yesterday whiffing revenue expectations largely due to iOS privacy changes. Worse than expected Read More
Weekend Update 10/17/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Bank earnings highlight #COVIDRecovery confidence ?? ? Yields stabilizing. #RisingYields breaks 3-week streak with 10-year treasury yield ending week down -2%. Yields peaked Mon, dropped -6% by Thur and rebounded +4% Fri. The Read More
Weekend Update 8/1/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! China crackdown disrupting markets ? ?? China crackdown. #ChinaTension rising as Washington relationship referred to as ‘dead end’. China cracking down particularly on Tech making investors extremely nervous. Pending M&A deal approvals likely Read More
Weekend Update 7/25/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Market rebounds from Monday’s COVID dip ???♂️ ⛈ Stormy Monday. Perfect storm Monday with #CyberSecurity hack, rising #ChinaTension and ongoing #COVID19 delta surge. S&P 500 fell -2% while 10-year treasury yields plummeted -8% to start week. ? Green Read More
Weekend Update 7/18/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! COVID resurgence and inflation fears sink market ??⚓️ ? Domestic COVID is back. After months of steadily declines, ?? #COVID19 rising across cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Not 4th wave yet, but some counties already Read More
Weekend Update 5/30/2021 Weekend Update recaps market highlights and major news from Ursa’s portfolio. Not on Ursa yet? Download Ursa from the App Store! Investors cheer strong off-cycle Growth earnings ? ? Growth relief rally. Strong week for high-growth names with a relief rally on strong #earnings. Bucking April’s overvalued mentality, last week saw a parade of Read More