by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 30, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
As we reported in our Weekly Market Update over the weekend (http://stage.blacksummitfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BFG-Weekly-Brief-August-29-2015.pdf), the US and the EU equity markets experienced one of their most volatile weeks. Over the course of two-three...
by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 17, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the summer months of 1944 World War II had taken a clear trajectory. The deadliest war period in human history was approaching its end. At that time the US was establishing not just its geopolitical power but also its geoeconomic power through the dominance of the...
by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 10, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
If we took a five-minute helicopter view of the global economic landscape, what would we have observe? Starting from the country of the rising sun, we could say that Japan has been struggling for 25 years now to find its pace, and still may have a lot of work to do in...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 29, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
It is an undisputed fact that the over-collateralization of assets (including toxic ones prior to 2008) and the securitization explosion that took place between 2000-2007, created the seeds of the financial crisis via credit-overextension. The response to that was an...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 22, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The tale of the last two-three weeks seems to have given room to a market upswing that is softening due to some rising concerns. Chinese government’s stock market intervention subsided –for now – the local market turmoil but has opened another wound whose story...