Publications
By: Thierry Malleret | On: June 1, 2015 |
Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy
On all fronts, global economic growth remains soft: facing headwinds in the US, tepid in the Eurozone, underwhelming in Japan and decelerating across emerging markets (with exceptions, such as India). […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 29, 2015 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action U.S. stocks performed poorly this week as all sectors sustained losses. Poor economic data, led by a revision for Q1 GDP to -0.7%, contributed to the selloff on […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 22, 2015 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Equity markets in the U.S. remained subdued again this week in light of little economic data. Earnings reported this week, most notably from the retail sector, were mixed […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 15, 2015 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action While equity markets in the U.S. pulled out small gains fixed income movements dominated discussion during this past week. Considerable moves in longer term bonds in the […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 14, 2015 |
Dioskouri Brothers Confronting a Joyful Disorder: Bonds, Yields, and Negative Equilibrium
Over the course of the last two weeks, we have been observing a twist in the bond markets. Yields are rising and consequently bond prices dropping. More than $420 billion […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 8, 2015 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Thanks to a strong rally following the April jobs report U.S. markets were able to recover from their grizzly performance earlier in the week. Bonds also sold off, […]
By: Lawrence Goodman | On: May 6, 2015 |
Bitcoin Needs Smart and Safe Regulation
Blacksummit Financial Group is honored to share with its readers the following post from Lawrence Goodman. Mr. Goodman currently serves as the President of the Center for Financial Stability. As Mr. […]
By: Thierry Malleret | On: May 4, 2015 |
Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy
Many pundits and investors are coming to the realization that we live in a world in which there is too much of too many things. There is too much debt […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 1, 2015 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Markets around the globe struggled to maintain their recent upward momentum this week. In the U.S. poor economic data sent markets on a spiral before recovering most of […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: April 28, 2015 |
A Walk Down the Elysian Fields: Cicero Meets Maimonides to Discuss Imbalances and Negative Equilibrium
This past Monday we posted an article by Chairman Paul Volcker on the need for radical financial reform (see http://stage.blacksummitfg.com/2978). Chairman Volcker wrote “it is too clear that […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 19, 2015 |
On the Chinese Wall of Steroids: Imbalances and Asymmetries
In a recent study by the McKinsey Institute total credit market debt in China is shown as the largest in the world, and that is only what we know of. […]