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Larry Berman: Liquidity-driven market about to have less liquidity VIDEO SIGN OUT With major moves in global equities being influenced by central bank liquidity, the markets may now require fiscal policy to extend recent gains. This phenomenon has a name: the equity risk premium (ERP). Basically, it’s the excess return in stocks relative to the risk-free rate. So there’s an imbalance in fundamental supply and demand of the cost of money. This analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was last done in September, well before the latest US$2.8 trillion in additional ...

Larry Berman: Speculation in call volume hits all-time extremes VIDEO SIGN OUT With options expiring this week, we wanted to have a look at the impact it’s having on markets. It’s huge. In the past week we have seen all-time call volume records challenged (viewers can follow the CBOE data here). It seems the new stimulus cheques are finding their way into Tesla Inc. call options and others. Speculators have had a voracious appetite (call it FOMO plus leverage) and they have been using call spreads and other speculative strategies to add huge leverage. This effect gets magnif...

Over the past decade, outside of a handful of large technology companies, earnings per share (EPS) growth has, in part, been a function of financial engineering by way of share buybacks. All this is made possible by low interest rates. As governments continue to pile on debt and artificially keep interest rates low, this can continue, and will based on what central banks are telling us. Is it fundamentally bullish? No way! Can stocks keep responding? Yes, they can! When we look at Europe (VGK) and Emerging Markets (EEM) EPS growth in the past decade, there isn’t any. I mean zero, nada, d...