Here we are, Post Easter 2021, and still, not once have global financial markets been allowed to properly “clear” since the beginning of the 2007 GFC. It’s just one bail out after another, every year, or in the case of recent months, weekly. Last week’s largest Hedge Fund blow up since LTCM in 1998 barely […]
After a continued jack up in rates at the long end of the US Govt Bond Yield curve last week, markets are serious questioning how long the US Fed allow this to continue. Before we look put our 2c worth into an answer, lets assess the state of some key players. The Good, The Bad, […]
The show goes on in financial Lala Land! It took less than a week for the “new” US Biden administration to announce an immediate 2 TRILLION dollar, “interim”, economic stimulus program. The numbers, globally, are just so large now they matter little to most. That is, until they do! The “when” of when it matters […]
If the US market closes Green tonight, the 31st of August, it’ll mark the best August performance for the US stock market (and, by default, global) since 1986!! It matters little that the entire “market” is being dragged along by 5 stocks and a not so passive group of “passive” ETF index hunters (more on this […]
As big as the win last week was for “Brexit”, as small as the “huge” Trump trade deal is, no news of the last week *Trumps* the gargantuan US Fed promise of 500BILLION to a frozen short term REPO money market over the next few weeks, just to keep the engine running and stock markets […]
In the space of 6 weeks, the US Fed has gone from steady as she goes, 3 rate hikes to go in 2019, to considering policies so extreme that they weren’t used in the greatest financial crisis of the last 80 years. 6 weeks!! Shredding all remaining market credibility, in our irrelevant opinion. Peter Schiff […]
It’s not just the start of the week today, but it’s also our first opportunity to welcome you to the start of a new period in financial markets. It’s back. After years of central bank suppression, just like that, volatility came back with a vengeance. Very close to a return to some type of normal… […]
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