Publications
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: June 12, 2016 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action As the Fed prepares for its June meeting, investors continued to flock to haven assets and safer equities this week. Bonds rallied, the Telecommunications sector posted gains, and […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: June 5, 2016 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action A poor jobs report on Friday sent shocks throughout markets around the globe. The dollar abruptly fell as skepticism renewed over the Fed raising rates at some point […]
By: Thierry Malleret | On: May 31, 2016 |
Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy
May 2016 Today’s world is threatened by many a ticking time bomb. Some, like immigration, financial crises or terrorism, tend to blow up suddenly; but the majority – including rising inequalities, ultra-low […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 26, 2016 |
On the Dark Hidden Pools of Chinese Liabilities: Debt Binge and Capital Outflows
In September 2010 we warned of the Chinese Wall of Steroids, http://stage.blacksummitfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Great-Wall-of-Steroids-Vol-2-Issue-3.pdf . In that newsletter we also explained the dangers of WMPs (wealth management products) in China where investors […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 21, 2016 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Investors continued to shy away from risk assets throughout the week as global shares hit a six-week low before regaining some ground on Friday. Money has flowed out […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 19, 2016 |
Risk Adjusted Returns, M&A, and Portfolio Structure: What Does Recent Market Activity Tell us?
Recent reports by major investment banks carry a flavor of pessimism, by suggesting underweighting equities and higher exposure to high yield. We are cautious over the course of the next […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 15, 2016 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action Equities posted their third consecutive week of losses in the U.S. amid mixed data from corporate earnings and economic variables. The retail sector was in heavy focus as […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 11, 2016 |
The Geopolitics of Market Volatility: Spillover Effects and Macro Fundamentals
The act of counterbalancing and possibly containing China has multiple faces. Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan met with Vladimir Putin of Russia last weekend in an effort to […]
By: Thierry Malleret | On: May 4, 2016 |
Monthly Barometer’s Forward-Looking Monthly Review: An Interdisciplinary View of our Complex Global Economy
April 2016 Yet again the IMF global economic for 2016 have been revised downwards by 0.2 percentage points – to 3.2%. Global growth remains weak and uneven, beset by financial, geopolitical and political […]
By: Joel Charalambakis | On: May 1, 2016 |
Weekly Market Update
Market Action The past week started positively for risk assets but turned sour on Thursday and Friday with markets reverting to their trends for the first six weeks of the […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 1, 2016 |
The Fizzling Out of Productivity Growth Rate: Examining the Credit Velocity Link
Productivity growth in the US will decline for the first time in over thirty years, raising the obvious question: How about all those magnificent innovations that constantly change our lives […]