A transcript of episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a story on a new technique to prevent predators eating the eggs of endangered birds.
The Canadian dollar has reversed directions on Friday and recorded slight gains. Currently, USD/CAD is trading at 1.2592, up 0.25% on the day. It has been...
More debt equals less growth. In October, I discussed the "2nd Derivative Effect" and the ongoing cost of the stimulus. With the passage of the $1.9...
With the economy looking toward life past COVID, the focus is beginning to shift to a recovering economy, perhaps hotter than expected, driven by an excess...
"There Are Absolutely No Job Seekers": How Trillions In Stimulus Sparked A Historic Job Market Crisis Something odd is going on in the US economy. On...
Oil looking for direction Crude prices are struggling for direction as short-term COVID pressures are countered by a much weaker US dollar. There were no real fireworks...
In the last few months, inflation has been a hotter topic than in recent memory. Google trends search intensity for the word “inflation” hit an all-time high (for the last 16...
Markets show muted response to FOMC minutes The FOMC minutes passed without incident overnight. The committee felt that risks were balanced but that the economy remained...
FOMC Minutes Signal Optimism On Fiscal Plans, Some Officials Fear "Stability Risks" Since The Fed's last statement and press conference (on March 17th), stocks and bonds...
Yellen Unveils $2.5 Trillion Tax Reclamation Plan, Fed Threatens To Withdraw Accommodation As Pandemic Ends Stocks just got hit with a double-whammy of hawkishness as Fed's...
Strong economic data over the last week in the US, Europe and Asia appears to be confirming the perception among investors that a cyclical recovery is...
The Canadian dollar has posted considerable losses on Wednesday. Currently, USD/CAD is trading at 1.2634, up 0.55% on the day. On the fundamental front, the Ivey...
The New Zealand dollar is in negative territory in the Wednesday session. Currently, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7032, down 0.31% on the day. NZ dollar claws...
Stocks Sink On Yellen's $2.5 Trillion Tax Reclamation Plan, Fed Warnings Over "Excess & Imbalances" Stocks just got hit with a double-whammy of hawkishness as Fed's...
At 2.5% for the MSCI AC World index, the rise in global equities in March was close to February’s 2.2%. It wasn’t all smooth running, though,...
US markets paused for breath overnight, with Wall Street easing slightly after a frenzied Monday session. Rotational spin was the theme of the day, and yesterday’s...
By Tobias Adrian After enduring a tumultuous 2020, the global economy is finally emerging from the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit with prospects diverging...
Housing Market Euphoria Craziest In Years As Inventory Sinks To New Low The housing boom sparked by the Federal Reserve during the virus pandemic was built...
US Futures Dip As European Stocks Finally Erase All Pandemic Losses, Hit Record High Global stocks hit record highs on Tuesday, supported by strong economic data...
It will be gradual, with ample advance notice. And it’ll only begin once the economy has “fully recovered.” That, at least, is the plan for raising...
Market Prices In Accelerated Fed Rate-Hike Timing/Trajectory; Specs Dump Bonds, Abandon VIX Shorts As stocks continue to rise ever higher, riding a carpet of global liquidity,...
Key Events This Week: Minutes, Services And Producer Prices Looking at the key events this week which takes place in the usual post payrolls data lull,...
By Philipp Engler, Roberto Piazza and Galen Sher Español, 日本語, Русский Rapid vaccine rollout in the United States and passage of its $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package...
SPAC Boom Upends Wall Street League Tables, Sparks Best Quarter For Dealmaking Since 1980 Just as an army of sell-side capital markets analysts are raising their...
U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday, as the S&P 500 crossed and closed above 4,000 for the first time. Even though financial markets were closed on Friday...
Buchanan: Joe Biden's Bid To Remake America Authored by Pat Buchanan, If Joe Biden’s American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government...
Four major forces shaped the investment climate in the first quarter: the evolution of the virus and the rollout of the vaccine, the rising long-term interest rates...
Valuations of risk assets have marked a pause in the face of a number of headwinds. In our view, valuations remain underpinned by ample central bank...
The Hazardous Detour On The Road To "Recovery" Few Foresee Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As the level of Fed smack and crack...
"Willfully Blind" Bulls Run As Liquidity Floods Market Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As liquidity floods the market, the bulls continue to run the market....