The numbers: The Chicago Fed’s national activity index, which is designed to gauge overall U.S. economic activity, declined to 0.27 in November from a revised 1.01 in the prior month. It is the smallest gain after the sharp decline in May. The index’s three-month moving average, which tries to smooth …
Read More »Activity Advent Calendar Stay Home Edition
I just finished prepping our 2020 Advent Calendar. The way we approach it is assigning a holiday-season activity to each day. We start by making a list of all the things that feel like Christmas-time to our family. We try to imagine school starting in January and we’re looking back …
Read More »The Best Activity Gifts
With everything that 2020 has brought to us I knew I couldn’t make gift guides this year without including an activity gift guide. These are a bunch of activities, games, books, and more that make for fun gifts this holiday season! We are all spending more time at home and …
Read More »: ETF Wrap: How to think about – and play – the wave of M&A activity
Catch-up trade? This past week hasn’t been so much about tech under-performing as everything else trying to catch up. Real estate ETFs (like XLRE) bounced on Monday. On Tuesday, it was utilities’ turn (XLU, VPU). Home builders (XHB, ITB) continued their year-to-date winning streak Wednesday after the release of an …
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