Overview: The combination of the dovish ECB's forward guidance and the unexpected rise in weekly US jobless claims to a two-month high sent bond yields tumbling. ...
"This Is Strange": Goldman's Risk Appetite Indicator Crashes Just As Stocks Explode To Record High Something strange is going on in the market: after a brief...
Students' academic worries persisted through the pandemic. A developmental scientist offers tips to support young people heading back to school.
Overview: The rally in US shares yesterday, ostensibly fueled by strong earnings reports, is helping to encourage risk appetites today. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index is...
Despite representing a relatively small proportion of sustainable bond issuance today, sustainability-linked bonds are rapidly becoming more popular. Xuan Sheng Ou Yong looks at these performance-linked securities and...
Blain: Markets Are Ignoring The New Inflation Reality Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck…” Markets have...
CK is still in the fight of her life. Again, we ask that everybody, everywhere please bring all and whatever you got in the form of...
"I think that my belief is that there will be (silver) shortages by next year — I think it's going to get much more difficult to...
Investors’ views on the outlook for growth have gone from acceleration to anticipation of the coming peak, while on inflation, expectations have moved from a pickup...
On Tuesday, the 4 major indices confirmed a reversal pattern with a close over the prior day's high. In the above chart, you can see all...
While financial markets are wondering when and how the US Federal Reserve and the ECB will turn to monetary tightening, we expect the People’s Bank of...
We’re all familiar with the phrase “the money has to go somewhere,” and this past week, safer havens in bonds and equity sectors were on the...
Bitcoin's drop below $30,000 has sparked worries that it is heading to $20,000 next, but is such a massive drop feasible against the backdrop of current...
Overview: Concerns that the Delta mutation will slow or even reverse the recovery efforts appear to be sapping risk-taking appetites. Equities are under pressure. Nearly all...
Last week's top-gaining mining stocks on the TSXV were Argentina Lithium & Energy, West High Yield Resources, Tsodilo Resources, Fancamp Exploration and Arena Minerals. The post...
Morgan Stanley: This Cycle Will Be "Hotter But Shorter" Than Usual By Andrew Sheets, Chief Cross-Asset Strategist for Morgan Stanley We think that this economic cycle...
After the June CPI and PPI surge, the Federal Reserve does not appear to have changed its tune. The price pressures are temporary, and the labor...
In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates to zero on March 15, 2020 and restarted its...
Futures Rebound As Op-Ex Gamma Trapdoor Looms US equity futures rebounded from yesterday's slide and losses of as much as -0.3% overnight on dismal volumes, as...
Monetary Policy Is Not Expansionary Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Monetary policy is not expansionary despite widespread belief otherwise. The general assumption by the Federal Reserve is...
Monetary policy is not expansionary despite widespread belief otherwise. The general assumption by the Federal Reserve is that by providing excess reserves to the banking system,...
Some deaths among the vaccinated are to be expected given how high the threat of COVID-19 is to older people.
Transitory Fed weakens US dollar With Jerome Powell firmly camped still in the transitory inflation corner, US bond yields unwound their previous day’s rise, and that...
Why it’s important for academia to teach our future generation of law students about Bitcoin and digital money technologies.
Stronger inflation data in the US again fuels the ‘transitory-versus-persistent’ debate on the fundamental nature of inflationary pressures. It is a discussion that has further to...
Retiring Boomers Are Deflationary, Right? Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, There’s never been a generation as influential, for good or ill, as today’s Baby Boomers....
Today's data releases brought some real surprises for the market, both good and bad: consumer price inflation in June came in much higher than expected (+0.9%...
US dollar rallies on US inflation data The title says it all as much higher than expected US inflation data saw tapering sentiment rise sharply, pushing...
When we think about MBS, it’s the historical downtrend in bond yields that matters, not federal debt and not tapering. HW+ Premium Content The post For...
We already know that small options traders, among many others, have been jumping once again into speculative trades. Now we can add hedge funds to the...