Risk Appetite, Shocks, and Portfolios: When Solon Met Croesus
Embracing risk could be a liberating force from fear. It’s risk embracing that has elevated equity markets to very high levels (some would argue about overvaluation levels) and has also rewarded tech companies with record profit margins and consequently with record...
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Make Gains Global equities made gains this week after last week's slump. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the week up 0.79% and 1.55%, respectively, and the Dow Jones increased 0.10% on the week. The U.S. 10-year Treasury edged...
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns examines the uncertain future of leadership in China, the shifting dynamics of Palestinian statehood recognition, India’s brewing constitutional crisis, and Poland’s struggle to restore liberal democracy—each revealing how succession,...
The Wooden Nickel
The Wooden Nickel is a collection of roughly a handful of recent topics that have caught our attention. Here you’ll find current, open-ended thoughts. We wish to use this piece as a way to think out loud in public rather than make formal proclamations or projections....
Carbon Market News Roundup
We’re pleased to announce that the Fundamental Analytics Carbon Services website is now live—explore insights and tools driving carbon compliance and market access here. The FACS platform, linked to ICE, enables direct EUA trading and streamlined onboarding...
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns explores how Gaza’s deepening humanitarian collapse and protracted conflicts in Ukraine and Taiwan highlight the breakdown of rapid deterrence strategies, calling for a shift toward sustained defense planning and urgent humanitarian action....
The Narratives of Market Froth and Resilience: A Period of Interregnum?
When we look at different market sectors (even if we were novice market participants), it cannot escape us that the tech-related sector (which includes communication-related stocks) has supercharged above and beyond the dot-com era valuations, while defensive...
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Make Gains Global equities made gains this week amid hopes that trade tensions are easing. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the week up 1.45% and 1.07%, respectively, and the Dow Jones increased 0.94% on the week. The U.S....
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical Concerns explores how President Trump's second term has triggered a global geopolitical realignment, with Europe forging independent security alliances, corruption undermining EU stability, U.S. foreign aid withdrawal deepening crises in Africa, and...
CROSSROADS: Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Here is a summary of the most important events that unfolded last month in the Middle East & North Africa, Latin America, Asia (ex-China/India), and Sub-Saharan Africa, and which may affect economic, financial, and geopolitical issues in the months ahead: Middle...
