by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 11, 2019 | Commentaries, Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Global equity markets were buoyed late in the week by hopes for a truce in the US–China trade war and optimism that a Brexit deal might be reached by the end of the month. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose 19 basis points higher than a week...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 8, 2019 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Composite models that assess the risk of a recession in the next 12 months indicate that the probability of a recession happening in the next 12 months has fallen slightly. However, such reading in our humble opinion is mistaken due to a false positive signal related...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 26, 2019 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
What do the US and UK political developments as well as the stock market valuation have to do with the Peloponnesian War fought between Athens and Sparta (431-404 BCE)? In all cases, observers want to know the future as unique (possibly extraordinary) developments are...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 19, 2019 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the course of the last couple of days the Fed has been injecting significant amounts of liquidity (to the tune of $75 billion per day) into the financial system. It should be noted that such intervention has not taken place since the days of the financial crisis...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 12, 2019 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The story of humankind has been a long tale of war, tyranny, misery, conflict, and illiberalism. To that extent the recent decades of relative peace and prosperity, along with the rising middle classes and democracy around the world is a historical aberration. From...