This is basically a rhetorical question drawn from a generally rhetorical exercise. We’ll never know for sure, this is about China, after all. Transparency...
Key Events This Week: Every Eye On Peak CPI After last week's relentless barrage of news including the Fed's biggest rate hike since May 2000,...
Bloodbath: Futures, Yuan Tumble as 10Y Yields Soar On Global Stagflation Fears It's a bloodbath. With Bank of America conveniently reminding...
We now have Q1 GDP for the US and Euro Area. While US inflation as measured by CPI/HICP is higher than Euro Area (US core accelerating...
Wall Street's Most Accurate Analyst: "Today's Bear Market Ends In October With The S&P At 3,000" Two weeks ago, just when everyone thought...
Inequality and social mobility are hotly debated issues. One important indicator of social mobility are wealth-to-income ratios. If a country’s wealth-to-income...
The tail end of my three-part discussion of banking (link) ended with the argument that the circular nature of funding flows means that they do not...
Futures Slide Ahead Of Payrolls And Six Fed Speakers The market crash will continue until Biden's approval rating improves. US futures extended...
Overview: The sharp sell-off of US equities yesterday weighed on global equities today. The Asia Pacific bourses were a sea of read with many of the...
Futures Slip As Traders Read Between Powell's Lines After yesterday's torrid, Powell-inspired meltup which saw the S&P soar the most since...
The dollar index dropped sharply after Powell’s comments, falling to a one-week low of… The post Dollar hits a one-week low on Fed’s rate comments...
Could these consumer tech names be good buys amid the Fed’s latest interest rate update? The post Good Stocks To Buy Right Now? 3 Consumer Tech...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Biggest Fed Rate Hike Since The Dot Com Bubble Burst May the 4th is here, and US futures are up slightly ahead...
Goldman Warns 'Dollar Dominance On A Downtrend' As we have noted numerous times in the past (since 2014), nothing lasts forever... And...
Futures Slump As Fed's Rate Hiking, QT-ing Meeting Begins After initially trading higher, extending the momentum of yesterday's last-hour...
Overview: The large bourses in Asia Pacific but Hong Kong eased. Japan and China's mainland markets are closed for the holiday. Europe's Stoxx 600...
Japan Emerges As Biggest Driver Behind Recent Surge In Treasury Yields It was about a year ago, when the calendar was moving from the end...
Futures Struggle To Rebound With Fed Set To Hike 50 Into A Recession One trading day after epic carnage shook global markets, US index futures...
The general contours of the business and investment climate are being shaped by three forces. First, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the sanctions boost...
The week ahead is packed with several central bank meetings and important high-frequency economic data. The week begins off with China's April PMI over...
A weak US dollar is commonly seen as a benefit to international stocks as foreign companies’ returns appear more attractive in dollar-denominated terms....
Macro update Financial markets roared back to life over December, boosted by news of potential breakthroughs on multiple COVID-19 vaccine trials. The confluence...
Gay men in marginal provinces like Hainan are claiming spaces and building communities in their own secret worlds.
I may have to rethink my opinion of Christine Lagarde. It just may be that after helming one serious debacle after another, she – unlike most...
Is The US Going To Transition From Stagflation Directly Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Should...
It’s been another wild ride in the markets this week but indices are on course to end it roughly where they started. There has been a...
Futures Slide As Amazon, Apple Slump; Nasdaq Set For Worst Month Since Nov 2008 It has been an illiquid, rollercoaster session on the last...
The U.S. dollar currency index breaks through resistance to hit its highest level since 2002 — to the detriment of practically everything. ...
Futures Rebound As Facebook Soars; Dollar Steamrolls Higher As Yen Crashes U.S. index futures, European bourses and Asian markets all rose...
The pressure on the common currency continues as the euro is sold across the FX dashboard. The conflict in Eastern Europe, triggered by Russia’s invasion...