Weekly Market Update
Market Action A devastating week for the markets has left investors searching for answers. More worries about China and the implications for global growth have been blamed, as have concerns about earnings growth for some key American firms. Investors worry that a...
On Deep States and Deep Markets: Medea Meets the Neo-Mamluk State of Global Volatility
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...
Weekly Market Update
Market Action All three U.S. averages overcame a turbulent week to post slight gains on the week. Energy stocks led the way despite further declines in the price of crude oil. China’s devaluation sparked volatility across asset classes this week. The People’s Bank of...
Recalibrating Investment Strategies: Adapting in an Ever-Changing Landscape
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...
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% investors sought out the high dividends offered by utilities. Employment data for...
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 two-by-two box for your client. Define what options to write on the x and y axes – and then the client can...
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 poor data in hand Treasury yields fell giving a boost to the dividend rich Utilities and...
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 in sight to this morass, because everywhere, incremental policy-making prevails....
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 financial crisis via credit-overextension. The response to that was an...
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 –for now - the local market turmoil but has opened another wound whose story is...
