By prioritising prudence over business support, the chancellor will probably do more harm in the long run.
Market Rally Fizzles As Volume Evaporates Tuesday's rally fizzled on Wednesday, as US emini futures were flat after erasing an earlier dip as attention again turned...
The GBP/USD tilted higher on Wednesday as investors reflected on the relatively weak UK GDP numbers. The pair also rose as the market reacted to the...
The world’s largest economy continues to post upbeat economic data as 2021 draws to a close, but there are hints that growth may suffer in the...
Media reports of US army super-vaccine An interesting story is making the rounds this morning, suggesting that researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research...
The Russell 2000 index has slid nearly 10% in less than two months, but Bank of America Securities’ Jill Carey Hall says 2022 could be a...
One of the growing trends in the US equity market since around 2016 is an increased concentration in the top components in equity indexes, namely...
The pound started the week quietly and this has continued on Tuesday. In the North American session, GBP/USD is trading at 1.3241, up 0.24% on the...
Brace For 2022 As Global Credit Impulse Goes Negative Authored by Christopher Dembik via Saxo Markets The economist consensus is optimistic about economic growth in 2022....
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...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed an emergency temporary standard (ETS) for employers to cope with the health dangers posed by COVID-19.
Peso Hits Record Lows As Leftist Boric Wins Chile Presidency In "Worst Scenario Markets Could Have Envisioned" Leftist Gabriel Boric, a former student protest leader, won...
US real estate and fixed-securities provided diversification benefits during last week’s widespread selling that weighed on most other markets around the world, based on a set...
Stocks, Futures, Oil Tumble On Omicron Lockdowns, Manchin Shockwave Global stocks and US equity futures are sharply lower to start the otherwise very quiet holiday week,...
Stock futures slip as Omicron variant concerns rise among investors. The post Stock Market Today: Stock Futures Slip Ahead Of Holiday-Shortened Week appeared first on Stock...
Stocks, Bond Yields Tumble After Manchin "No" On Build Back Better, Goldman Slashes GDP A decisive "no" from Senator Joe Manchin on President Biden's Build Back...
Will markets coast into the new year? Last week was action-packed, dominated by major central bank announcements that in many cases represented a change of direction...
Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by John G. Fernald, Jack Mueller, and Mark M. Spiegel (all of the Federal Reserve Bank...
Global government debt surged to nearly 100 percent of GDP during the global recession of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a collapse in output and...
Starting in 2010, a new wave of debt accumulation—the “fourth wave” of debt—had been underway in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs, Figure 1). With the...
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...
Kim Jong Un has followed his father and grandfather in ruling by fear. The coronavirus pandemic has made North Korea ever more isolated, while expanded military...
For the past three weeks, financial markets have been ruled by the unknowns related to the Omicron variant and those surrounding the US Federal Reserve’s monetary...
Visualizing The Global Semiconductor Supply Chain Our digitally-driven society is powered by an extremely robust semiconductor supply chain, and until the COVID-19 pandemic, not many people...
Some of it – but some indications are that it’s not the majority. Let’s define the trade balance in NIPA terms, so we look at “net...
Some of it – but some indications are that it’s not the majority. Let’s define the trade balance in NIPA terms, so we look at “net...
"Santa Rally Is Finally Here": Futures Hit All Time High Day After Powell Goes Full Jean-Claude Trichet One day before what everyone knew would be a...
COVID-19 Economic Zombification Authored by Daniel Fernandez via UFM Market Trends, More and more economists and finance specialists are warning of the potential arrival of a...
From CMS’s office of the Actuary as reported in Health Affairs today: US health care spending increased 9.7 percent to reach $4.1 trillion in 2020, a much faster...
A Puzzled Wall Street Reacts To Powell, And The Market's Furious Melt Up Heading into today's FOMC, consensus was clear: anything more than 2 rates hikes...