Whereas inflation rates in the US and Europe have risen steeply in the course of the year 2021, consumer price inflation in Japan stood at 0.1...
Futures Rise, Eye 71st All-Time High After closing at a fresh all time high on Wednesday, its 70th high for the year, which is the most...
Futures Resume Levitation, Push On To New All Time Highs One day after a brief interruption in the Santa rally, as US stocks fell for the...
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,...
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee (MPC) yesterday went against market expectations to… The post Banking stocks boosted as Bank of England springs a surprise...
Stocks, Yields Tumble As Quad-Witching Fears Add To Broader Market Slide US futures tumbled after hitting an all time high less than 24 hour ago, as...
Interest rates are front and center today as the Federal Reserve prepares to update the world on its current thinking about monetary policy. The main question:...
Transitory or persistent? That’s still the big question facing central bankers over inflation.
Futures Reverse Lower As Fed Meeting Looms US stock futures fell on Tuesday, reversing an earlier gain, as traders prepared for this year’s barrage of final central...
Futures Ramp On China Stimulus Hopes Ahead Of Central Bank Barrage U.S. futures rose again, starting the Santa rally predicted over the weekend by Goldman, after...
I have been emphasizing the Fed's dilemma: If it raises interest rates, that raises the U.S. debt-service costs. 100% debt to GDP means that 5% interest...
BoJo Unveils “Plan B” Restrictions To Fight Omicron As New Cases Double Every 2-3 Days Update (0800ET): More details about BoJo's "Plan B" are coming into...
Stocks Soar On Optimism Omicron Is A Dud As Traders Focus On Growing China Stimulus U.S. index futures rallied, led by gains for Nasdaq 100 contracts,...
China To Cut RRR "Within A Week" As Evergrande Braces For Imminent Default Last Friday, just as markets were set to crater, during a meeting with...
Futures Flat Ahead Of Taper Accelerating Payrolls U.S. equity futures are flat, rebounding from an overnight slide following news that 5 "mild" Omicron cases were found...
I'm working madly to finish The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. This is a draft of Chapter 21, on how to think about today's emerging...
Was Friday’s selling wave overdone? Too early to tell, but the damage from last week’s sudden bout of risk-off left all the major asset classes in...
Bitcoin was the most popular cryptocurrency in Russia in October, outpacing coins like Tether and Litecoin. Almost half of retail investors in Russia believe that cryptocurrencies...
The Euro's Death Wish Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Last week’s Goldmoney article explained the Fed’s increasing commitment to dollar hyperinflation. This week’s article examines the...
The Thanksgiving celebration marks the start of the festive season, but erratic moves in financial markets are creating the impression that investors are already thinking about...
To understand the euro’s weakness, you have to look at the US as well as Europe.
BofA Is Bearish On Markets Ahead Of The 2022 "Rates Shock" For those who have been following BofA CIO Michael Hartnett's sometimes disjointed thoughts and observations,...
Central bankers are coming under mounting pressure to get inflation under control.
US bonds edged higher for the trading week through Friday, Nov. 19, but red ink took a toll on the rest of the major asset classes,...
The Market Is Signaling That A Scenario Of Sharply Rising Real Rates Is Untenable By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management; read this post...
Futures Rise As Usual, Approaching All Time High US equity futures resumed their upward climb (after Goldman quadrupled down on its call for a massive, year-end...
Money, Funny-Money, & Crypto Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, That the post-industrial era of fiat currencies is coming to an end is becoming a real...
Futures Rebound From Post-CPI Rout As China Property Stocks Soar US futures rose and European bourses once again rebounded from overnight lows, this time after concerns...
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...