While international sportswear giants such as Nike, Adidas and Puma are bitter rivals, they all have one thing in common: they’re trying to cut out the middleman. Just last week, Adidas announced an ambitious four-year plan called “Own the Game”, which…
The ritual has become as old and stale as it has become predictable: A central bank promises to continue the free money spigot and market participants pile into risk assets as we […]
Knight Frank has released its latest House Price Index, which found that global residential property prices are rising at their fastest rate in nearly three years. The company analyzed prices in 56 countries and territories with 89 percent recording an…
The average price for a gallon of gasoline has continued to creep upwards in the United States and it hit $2.85 by March 15, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It was as low as $1.77 last April. Increasing oil prices are the prima…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
The U.S. stock and bond markets and its entire financial system now teeter on the edge of collapse if there is even a slight hint that 1) the Fed won’t give more free candy to Wall Street or 2) the Fed has lost control of the Dead Money Economy it has created.
By Bob Coleman 1/For any fiduciary, institutional or individual investor considering precious metals and wants to understand the real structural risks between owning physical metals…
CUSIP: 912810SW9Term and Type: 19-Year 11-Month BondSeries: Bonds of February 2041Reopening: YesInterest Rate: 1.875%High Yield: 2.290%Price: $93.400551Allotted at High: 98.83%Total Tendered: $64,599,088,700Total Accepted: $28,309,707,400Auction Date: …
In 2019, just over 706,000 people obtained citizenship of an EU Member State, an increase on the 672,800 applications granted in 2018. The majority were granted to citizens of non-EU countries and stateless individuals. 13 percent of the total number o…
Amid a handful of reports of blood clots, a growing list of countries, primarily in Europe, have suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as the continent faces a third wave of Covid-19. The move plunges an already slow European vaccination drive into …