By: Joel Charalambakis | On: February 7, 2015 |
Market Action U.S. stocks had one of their best weeks in the past five years. Better than expected earnings by some key companies, economic data and a technical bounce served […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: February 2, 2015 |
Market Action Poor economic data and disappointing earnings weighed heavily on U.S. markets early in the week. While the election of Syriza in Greece added to volatility to markets in […]
By: Thierry Malleret | On: January 30, 2015 |
Yet again and despite the fillip of collapsing oil prices, projections for global growth have been revised downwards – to 3.5% this year and 3.7% in 2016, down from […]
By: Daniel Stelter | On: January 26, 2015 |
Despite all the advertising, launching quantitative easing (QE) in Europe may well be counter-productive. This is due in no small part to significant structural differences between the U.S. and European […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: January 25, 2015 |
Market Action Markets got the sugar rush they had long been craving as Mario Draghi announced a QE program involving €60 billion per month starting next month through at least […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: January 23, 2015 |
Geopolitical Headlines Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Azziz al-Saud passed away on Thursday at the age of 90. He had been hospitalized with a case of pneumonia for weeks. […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 21, 2015 |
As it is widely expected, the ECB will unveil today its own version of QE. Welcome to a dead-end where central banks may resemble Prometheus bound by chains made by […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: January 16, 2015 |
Market Action U.S. markets on Friday ended a five-day streak of losses for risk assets. A combination of weak economic data, global growth concerns and disappointing Q4 earnings contributed to […]
By: Daniel Stelter | On: January 16, 2015 |
Following the start of Abenomics in 2012, Japan moved back to the center of attention of global financial markets. After two and a half decades of economic stagnation, hopes were […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 11, 2015 |
The Euro – the epitome of what is known as a dysfunctional currency- is shaking. It seems that the Fed no longer needs to support it at those irrational levels, […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: February 5, 2015 |
Warning: Head-On Collision Ahead
Close to twenty years ago, the Eurocrats decided to defy the laws of gravity in economics, and they started designing a common currency without a fiscal union. Their thinking was […]