Overview: Equities are higher and bonds lower as the week's activity winds down. Asia Pacific markets rallied, paced by more than 2% gains in Hong Kong...
Three Ways Fed Rate Hikes Will Impact Your Wallet Via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve recently delivered the largest interest rate hike...
With no sign of respite from inflationary pressures, central banks are embarking on a significant tightening of monetary policy. Valuations of risk assets...
Fed Chair Jay Powell took a trip to Capitol Hill this week for his regular interrogation by Congress – no doubt a tough trip to take...
This morning I received an inquiry from a subscriber (thank you, Scott M.) who asked me what I thought would be the market bottom on the...
Stagflation is an economic phenomenon characterized by high inflation and high unemployment. Everyone knows that inflation has reached levels not seen...
Is Fed Chair Powell's "Soft Landing" Even Possible? Via SchiffGold.com, After last week’s FOMC meeting, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...
It's Official: Nomura Is First Bank To Call For 2022 Recession A little over two months ago - in early April - Deutsche Bank shocked Wall...
The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced an increase of 75 basis points to the target federal funds rate, raising the...
JPM Trader: S&P Drops To 3,000 In Worst Case, And Three Other Scenarios Readers may be excused if they burst out laughing when they hear...
In its June 14-15th meeting, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates by 75 bps to a range of 1.5% – 1.75%. This was above Chairman Powell’s...
Will This Be The Last Move In The Fed's Inflation Fight? Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve took a more...
Asian equities struggle to follow Wall Street higher Wall Street rallied post-FOMC as Jerome Powell’s post-meeting comments were interpreted as a consistent,...
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced an increase of 75 basis points to the target federal funds rate, raising the...
In its much-anticipated June meeting, the Federal Reserve raised policy rates by 75 bps, which was above the stated 50 bps hike, to the range of...
Overview: Better than expected Chinese data and an unscheduled ECB meeting are the highlights ahead of the North American session that features the May...
Recent research suggests that inflation, adjusted for methodology changes, is getting close to the peak of the early 1980s, casting doubt on the sufficiency...
A Chaotic Tipping Point: Bill Blain Warns "We Are Spiralling Into Something Messy" Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The...
Three G7 central banks meet in the coming days, and they dominate the macro stage. The Federal Reserve's meeting concludes on Wednesday, the Bank of England...
Three G7 central banks meet in the coming days, and they dominate the macro stage. The Federal Reserve's meeting concludes on Wednesday, the Bank of England...
It wasn’t exactly a secret, though the raw data doesn’t ever tell you why something might’ve changed in it. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis,...
Will a recession follow? It’s been a slow start to the month in financial markets but the ECB rate decision on Thursday finally got things moving...
Overview: Chinese markets were the notable exception amid sharp losses in many of the large markets in the Asia Pacific. A rebound in the Japanese...
The BLS’s most recent labor market data is, well, troubling. Even the preferred if artificially-smooth Establishment Survey indicates that something...
DataTrek: Oil Prices Hitting $140 Would Mean Recession In The Next 12-18 Months By Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Research 1970s Debt Vs. Today Two...
The Inevitable Recession By Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at Rabobank Summary The negative supply shocks related to COVID and the...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Hawkish ECB Meeting US index futures turned positive on Thursday, even as European stock slipped ahead of the ECB decision...
What Is a Fed Put?The main goal of the Fed, or the U.S. Federal Reserve, is to maintain a healthy U.S. economy through stable prices and...
They called it an atmospheric river, though I’m not really sure who “they” was nor whether the term is scientific or just media hype. Either way,...
Overview: China and Hong Kong re-opened after the Friday and holiday and equities rallied strongly. Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea advanced as well. However,...