Publications

By: Joel Charalambakis | On: August 8, 2015 |

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Utilities were once again a leading sector in U.S. equity markets this week as stocks delivered weak results. With the 10-Year treasury yield once again dipping below 2.2% […]

By: Daniel Stelter | On: August 4, 2015 |

The Failure of Politics: Merkel’s Euro Debacle?

It may be the great magic trick of the management consulting world: No matter how complex the situation and how iffy the outcomes may appear to be, just draw a […]

By: Joel Charalambakis | On: August 2, 2015 |

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Some poor earnings reports from a handful of notable companies and weaker than expected economic data kept equity markets in check for much of the week. With the […]

By: Thierry Malleret | On: July 31, 2015 |

Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy

 The global economic backdrop of slow and diminishing growth forecasts is being exacerbated by the financial drama occurring in countries as diverse as China and Greece. There is no end […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 29, 2015 |

Searching in the Shadows of a Restless Credit Cycle: The Street called Geo-Uncertainty

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 22, 2015 |

Market Fragility and the Business Cycle: The Tales of Blowing Winds

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 […]

By: Joel Charalambakis | On: July 17, 2015 |

Weekly Market Update

Market Action With an agreement between Greece and its creditors secured over the past weekend major averages around the world rallied and renewed optimism for equity investors. The Technology and […]

By: Joel Charalambakis | On: July 12, 2015 |

Weekly Market Update

Market Action The major U.S. averages stayed relatively flat throughout the week. The emphatic “No” vote in Greece weighed down markets early on in the week before a new proposal […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 6, 2015 |

Contemplating the Grexit Scenarios

Most of us at some point were exposed to a great teacher. Joel Fingerman was that teacher for me. Joel taught me in one of his quantitative classes (Business & […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 4, 2015 |

The Return of the Son of Nothing: Greece and the EU after Wandering the Wasteland

Let me state it from the beginning: This Greek referendum is absurd simply because the government has failed its people, and also because the troika’s boneheaded mentality did not allow […]

By: Joel Charalambakis | On: July 3, 2015 |

Weekly Market Update

Market Action Markets started the week in the red across the world thanks to Greece’s abandonment of negotiations and surprise call for a referendum. Equities in the U.S. recovered some […]