The Optimizer Weekly is a weekly newsletter powered by the Howard Capital Management, Inc. team. This newsletter is meant to be a fresh and fun take on the stock market, while loosely based off Vance Howard’s Wealth Watch, which is also released weekly.
It’s not a party in the USA unless capital goods are on the up and up. Factories have been churning out at its highest rate since 2014. Due to new orders and, gasp, back orders, the workforce is asking for more hands on deck. According to this week’s Wealth Watch, durable goods inched up about %0.02 in December 2020. Now, this may be a feeble number, but at least we’re not in the negatives.
Continue reading “Wealth Watch: There’s a Party in The Warehouse”
New year, new president. The Trump administration has officially moved out to hit the beach. Upon arrival to Florida, Donald was cool with a quick hello to the welcoming committee while Melania sidestepped cameras like Bigfoot. During this, the rest of the United States enjoyed a post inauguration sigh of relief.
Continue reading “The U.S. had a Post Inauguration Snowball Fight”
Aye mateys, ye be warned (again). Colonel Coronavirus spotted a stowaway on the poop deck. A spy more like, who’s been thrown in the brigadier many a night. To the crew’s dismay, Vaccine Vajvode knows her way around a padlock. In the night, Lady Vaccine has been dancing with the crew. Not all have been won over, but many of Coronavirus’ crew have abandoned ship. It’s only a matter of time before Colonel Coronavirus himself is wrapped in Lady Vaccine’s fingers.
Democrats have officially signed the deed to a steamboat called “Old Rusty.” She’s a fixer-upper, but she still floats…if you consider a vessel sitting cattywampus in 3 inches of sewer water floating. Yes, people, we’re referring to the government. Keep up. For the next two years all eyes will be on how the Dems get Old Rusty back in working order. Suffice it to say, the political party has some heavy lifting to do. Either they make a dent in some issues or they’re going to have to boot scoot boogie out of D.C.
Keeping up with this month’s clinical trials has been like watching three mad scientists play beach volleyball. It’s one long, unpredictable, experiment which we just can’t look away from. After reading feedback about the first round of vaccinations, we’d almost prefer grandma get run over by a reindeer than take a coronavirus vaccine this Christmas Eve.
Vance Howard and friends sat down with Yahoo! Finance to cover the three 2020 P’s: the pandemic, policy, and politics. It doesn’t matter if you’re still digesting your Thanksgiving meal, life will go one whether you need a bathroom break or not. As per usual Vance Howard was ready to spill all his beans about the HCM-BuyLine®.
Continue reading “Vance Howard shares Take-Out with Yahoo! Finance”
