Riskier firms typically borrow at higher rates than safer firms because investors require compensation for taking on more risk. However, since 2009 this...
What Is Capitulation in Simple Terms? Traditionally, capitulate means “surrender.” When applied to investing, it refers to selling a stock for a loss—usually during a phase...
Pershing Square's Bill Ackman made money on the economy's decline at the beginning of the pandemic and then its rebound later on.
Pershing Square's Bill Ackman made money on the economy's decline at the beginning of the pandemic and then its rebound later on.
While 2021 was not a good year for emerging asset markets (EM), 2022 may hold positive developments that could turn the region’s markets around. Our investment...
What Is a Corporate Bond? In a nutshell, a corporate bond is like a loan from an investor to a company, which the company repays with interest...
Fixed income outlookIn this Fixed Income outlook, we contrast the Federal Reserve’s forecasts for the US economy against its – modest – projections for the fed...
Fear And Panic As Bitcoin Crashes 50% From All Time High Just two months after cryptos hit an all time high amid widespread euphoria that the...
Over the past few weeks, Fed speakers are bemoaning inflation and voiced their wishes to squash it. They frequently mention how effective their monetary toolbox is...
Europe's Spendthrifts Are Stuck In Irreversible Debt-Traps Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, A Euro Catastrophe Could Collapse It This article looks at the situation in...
2021 was an awkward ’steady state’ year for financial markets: bonds delivered the worst returns in a quarter of a century except for one year (1999),...
Is The Bond Bloodbath Over? Technicals, Inflation, & Fed Whispers Bond bulls had the jam stolen from their donut to start 2022, but the question is...
Futures Tread Water With Traders Spooked By Spike In Yields After futures rose to a new all time high during the Tuesday overnight session, the mood...
The Great Reconciliation Of Asset Prices In 2022 Authored by Michael Pento via PentoPort.com, The coming new year will be fraught with risk due to the...
As Markets Swing Wildly Seeking The Fed Put, Morgan Stanley Has Some Bad News With markets swinging around like yoyos spun by drunken monkeys ever since...
This post presents an update of the economic forecasts generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. We describe...
Household Net Worth Hits Record $145 Trillion, Up $34 Trillion Since COVID... But There Is A Catch Another quarter, another record high in (1%er) household net...
Futures Jump In Volatile Session Dragged By Latest Twists In Omicron Saga Much of the overnight session was a snooze fest with stocks drifting first higher...
As of early December 2021, a single bitcoin is trading at a little over… The post Is Bitcoin now too big too fail? What would happen...
What a difference a day makes. Black Friday turned into Red Friday after the pandemic took a new turn for the worse. Is it déjà vu...
Beijing Capitulates: Urges Local Govts To Unleash Debt Flood As Cities Begin Backstopping Property Developers Despite the best efforts by South African doctors to temper the...
Futures Under Water As Tech Selloff Spreads, Yields Spike, Lira Implodes US equity futures continued their selloff for the second day as Treasury yields spiked to...
In April 2021 the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, said that the federal government printed an additional NGN 60 billion (60 billion naira) to be...
The Fed has got the good stuff, and it might take an intervention to set our economy back on track.
Futures Melt Up To New Record High Ahead Of Payrolls US index futures continued their relentless meltup on the last day of the week, before today's...
The Federal Reserve decided to slow its pace of bond-buying, potentially the beginning of the end of a program that’s been supporting the economy since March...
This Tuesday and Wednesday, the Federal Reserve policy meeting will be held. Investors are expecting to hear a tapering announcement involving the monthly bond-buying program. This...
Convertible bonds are hybrid instruments combining bond and equity characteristics. As a result, they offer some equity upside, but with bond-like protection on the downside. If...
The Economy Needs Higher Rates Submitted by The Swarm Blog, In a RealVision interview, Greenlight capital’s founder David Einhorn recently said: “I’m not in the transitory-inflation...
Futures Tumble As Nat Gas Prices Explode, Stagflation Fears Surge In our market comments on Tuesday we were stunned by the resilient surge in tech names...