Americans’ Optimism About COVID-19 Dashed as Cases Surge

Americans’ Optimism About COVID-19 Dashed as Cases Surge

BY JEFFREY M. JONES STORY HIGHLIGHTS 40%, down from 89%, say situation is getting betterMost now expect disruption to persist through end of 2021 or later19% practicing strict social distancing, compared with 18% in June WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a dramatic shift from last month, more Americans now say the coronavirus situation in the U.S. is getting worse (45%) rather than […]

What’s going on with Interest Rates?

What’s going on with Interest Rates?

When I did some analysis on 6 months of the 10 year treasury bond yield, it looks challenging over the next 3 months. See the chart below. This analysis is telling me that we could see a decline in interest rates over the summer. Which communicates that bond investors are not all that confident in the economy in the near […]

What is going on with Bitcoin?

What is going on with Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is down -36% from it’s all-time high April 12, 2021.  Additionally, my technical analysis of the crypto currency are: It is oversold at this point,Trading below its 50 day and 200 day SMA.Big Money traders are selling andMacD is negative Robinson Analytics takes data science and applies it to the Stock Market to provide you with some of the […]

Robinson Analytics Real Estate Market Analysis

Robinson Analytics Real Estate Market Analysis

The United States real estate market has been one of the best performing equity asset classes year to date risk adjusted.  This sector (XLRE, green line in the chart below) of the economy has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 (Economy overall), Nasdaq (Technology sector of the economy) and the Blue-Chip firms that we know as the Dow Jones Industrial […]

Robinson Analytics 2021 Economic Forecast (March Edition)

Robinson Analytics 2021 Economic Forecast (March Edition)

A lot has changed since my December 6, 2020 forecast for 2021. My financial markets analysis is on the top 10 economies in the world. See the chart below. The markets are currently forecasting that Canada’s main street economy will do the best the next 6 (September 2021) to 9 months (December 2021), with Japan’s main street economy performing second […]

When will the pandemic be over?

When will the pandemic be over?

The facts are undeniable: The seven-day average of new cases in the United States has fallen by 74 percent (see chart below) since their January peak, hospitalizations have gone down by 58 percent, and deaths have dropped by 42 percent. Meanwhile, more than 70 million doses of vaccine have gone into American arms. At some point—maybe even some point relatively soon—the remaining […]