Supporting youth involvement in climate policymaking helps keep sustainability at the top of governments’ priorities.
The US economy downshifted sharply in the third quarter, based on last week’s initial estimate of gross domestic product (GDP). Is that a warning sign for...
Last year did not end on a sound note. The initial rebound after 2020’s recession was supposed to be a straight line, lifting upward for the...
VIX is the ticker symbol for the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s Volatility Index. It’s a weighted mix of the prices for a blend of S&P 500...
BlueCrest, Balyasny, ExodusPoint "Ground" Traders Over Maximum Bond Losses Over the weekend, we reported that in the aftermath of last week's staggering, 6-sigma bond moves which...
Entrepreneurial businesses acknowledge and understand the inevitability of boom-bust cycles in the Fed-manipulated economy. But they refuse to be defeated or even deterred. They find the...
The best consumer discretionary stocks can help boost investment returns during good economic times. Check out these consumer stocks. The post 5 Best Consumer Discretionary Stocks...
"Markets Are Just Going To Break In Some Parts" - One Bank Sees Bond Market Turmoil Shifting To Stocks As we noted earlier today, a huge...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s latest ranking indicates that the coronavirus and heightened awareness about racism made a difference, but not necessarily a lasting one.
In response to overvalued stocks, consider shifting your portfolio towards undervalued dividend-paying blue-chip stocks.
There is no “decoupling”, at least there hasn’t been yet. Why would this time end up any different? The history of the term has itself changed...
While the GDP release dominated the news, we got new looks at economic activity and price pressures on Friday (and monthly GDP today). First, economic activity...
While the GDP release dominated the news, we got new looks at economic activity and price pressures on Friday. First, economic activity according to some key...
In Jim’s review of the Q3 advance release, he noted disappointments in residential investment. What is also worrying is the deceleration in real business fixed investment...
Janet Yellen Flip-Flops, Insists Biden's 'BBB' Plan Will Actually Help Suppress Inflation Before jetting off to Rome for a weekend G-20 summit in Rome, President Biden...
Ford and Facebook both rose yesterday, along with Amazon and Tesla, to help the S&P 500 brush off Wednesday's late-day decline. For the day, the index...
Since the pandemic started, we have seen major imbalances to supply and demand in the global markets. Supply chain disruptions due to lockdowns and other regulations,...
I was looking at survey based forecast errors for short term interest rates, when I generated this graph. It’s certainly a humbling picture. Figure 1: Three...
For several years now, we’ve been harping constantly and consistently about what’s on the PBOC’s balance sheet; or, really, what conspicuously isn’t in very specific line-item...
OPEC+ Comfortable With Rising Oil Price Trend By John Kemp, Reuters energy analyst and commentator Rejecting calls from consuming countries for faster output increases, OPEC+ has...
While most still caveat the argument with the get-out clause it is far from… The post Are we on the cusp of global recession? first appeared...
Is Stagflation Here: Comparing The 2020s With The 1970s... Now that the fear of stagflation is a growing concern on Wall Street as the latest BofA...
The macro highlights for the week ahead fall into three categories. First are the preliminary estimates for Q3 GDP by the US and the EMU. Second,...
"No One Can Tell What's Ahead" - Brazil Tumbles Into Bear Market Amid Latest Economic Crisis Brazilian markets and the Brazilian real both extended their recent...
UK Banks – Digital Dinosaurs Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Tuppence wisely invested in the bank…” As UK bank reporting season kicks off, the dull,...
By Andrea Pescatori, Martin Stuermer, and Nico Valckx Soaring natural gas prices are rippling through global energy markets—and other economic sectors from factories to utilities. An...
According to some of the largest and most sophisticated investors in the world, stocks are a good place to be. But we may have to suffer...
Is A Volatility Storm Coming? Authored by Patrick Hill via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Volatility often refers to the amount of uncertainty or risk related to the size of changes...
Federal Reserve officials have recently been talking up the case for starting the process of tapering the central bank’s asset purchases. This baby step towards a...
Yesterday, stocks advanced for the 6th day heading towards previous highs as earnings roll in. With little economic news on the calendar, there was little to...