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Investor psychology is one of the most significant reasons individuals consistently fall short of their investment goals. While one of the most common truisms is that “investors buy high and...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April jobs report on Friday, revealing a cooling labor market with narrower job gains across several major industries. The report showed that the U.S....
The April job report, a significant indicator of the U.S. labor market's health, revealed a cooling trend with slower job growth.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April job report on...
Preliminary estimates of second-quarter US GDP activity suggest output may stabilize after two straight quarters of slower growth, based on the median for a set of nowcasts compiled by...
The Fed held its policy meeting, leaving rates unchanged but slowing down quantitative tightening. Today's focus shifts to US labor data: strong figures could justify the Fed's hawkish stance of...
There is a popular meme that the government has an incentive to inflate, because the same debt is worth less in real terms at a higher price level. If inflation is high enough, then the government (it...
With the FOMC meeting absorbed without much fanfare overnight, equity volatility was limited in today’s session here in Asia with closed Chinese markets helping smooth out the wobbles on Wall...
All Queensland households will receive a $1,000 credit to their electricity accounts later this year, Queensland Premier Steven Miles announced on Thursday. Key points All Queensland households...
The Fed meetings seem to create more confusion than needed, but it is what is what it is. I know that even though I wrote yesterday that at 2:35 PM ET, it was possible that we saw the usual FOMC press...
Anxiety and fear over what could or could not happen at last night’s FOMC meeting was met with relief as the Fed didn’t really change signalling on its interest rate trajectory. Bond...
Most of the major asset classes retreated in April. The overall losses mark the worst month for global markets so far in 2024, based on a set of ETFs.The upside outliers last month were limited to...
In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and...
The S&P 500 was down about 1.6% heading into the FOMC meeting and Quarterly Refunding Announcement today. The VIX 1-Day was up 8.3 points to 18.10, which suggests much of the decline yesterday...
Fear over what could or could not happen at tonight’s FOMC meeting combined with end of month window dressing sent Wall Street into a spin overnight, with stocks losing between 1-2%, taking out...
The value of modeling recession risk-based multiple indicators is a hardy perennial. The latest example comes by way of aggregating trends in the 50 US state economies for estimating the odds that an...