Back-to-School Buzz: Navigating Key Events and Consumer Spending Trends
Sharpen your pencils as back-to-school season is already upon us. Investors know that just as kids across the country return to...
Data-Driven Methods to Identify Companies Involved in Artificial Intelligence
This article examines methods to identify companies involved in AI, with a focus on known supply-chain relationships and the...
U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions Monthly Review: July 2023
U.S. M&A deal activity decreased in July, going down 23.7% with 969 announcements compared to 1,270 in June. Aggregate M&A...
Banks are not out of the woods yet
Moody’s downgrades: Moody’s downgraded 11 banks, placed another 6 on review, and changed the outlook to negative on 11 more,...
Alternate Current: Studying the Early Divergence in Energy Market NAV vs. Dry Powder 1995-2022
The energy market is consistently prone to violent price swings in reaction to global news. As a result, it’s a difficult style...
Q3 2023 Investor Conference & Events Highlights
Here are some of the major conferences sourced by Wall Street Horizon that investors and traders should keep on their Q3...
You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Recession Implications of Tightening Bank Credit Standards
New SLOOS data very negative. After the shock of March and April, second quarter earnings season was a welcome respite. Earnings...
Top-Down Macro, Bottom-Up Impact: Insurance EPS Upside as Rising Rates Lift Investment Income
A new FactSet template enables users to select multiple companies and compare fixed income maturity profiles at the group level....
Bank Insider Buying Encouraging; Interest Rates, Not So Much
Bank insiders have been buying: In a bullish sign, the number of bank insiders making open market stock purchases surged in 2Q23....
Earnings results among a number of the largest US life insurance companies have been fouled by lower-than-expected returns from...
Bank Tracker: Deposit Data Debunks Conventional Wisdom; Plus Investment Banking, Fed Funds Futures
Astute readers may recall that banks attracted a measure of media attention a few months back. Bank runs at SVB, Signature, and...
Q4 Crunch Time: Revisiting 2022 Returns at Year-End
Before we publish Q4 2022 benchmark in Cobalt Market Data, let’s revisit our February analysis of 2022 H1 distribution pacing by...
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