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.
Millions of workers in the U.S. continue to stay home and conduct business remotely. With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations still at unprecedented levels, many companies aren’t expecting to fully fill their office space until spring of next year. New…
The stock market ended November on a low note, with the Dow Jones index dropping roughly 270 points by the ring of the closing bell. Still, the total month saw another substantial increase in market gains, continuing a solid trend of growth heading int…
Mario Draghi’s sunset retirement festivities weren’t supposed to have gone off this way. Celebrated for his July 2012 “promise” to save the euro, he instead spent the entirety of his eight years as President of the ECB chasing inflation and recovery, the very things meant to accomplish the euro’s saving, without success. By the end, […]
As $SPX is trying for a new high here and $ES futures are retesting the highs from November 9th I thought I may chime in with a few thoughts here. Firstly, in […]
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.
One sure way to identify a system “optimized for failure” is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is “optimized for my success”.
Pending Home Sales in the United States increased 20.20 percent in October of 2020 over the same month in the previous year. Pending Home Sales in the United States averaged 0.97 percent from 2002 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 30.90 percent …
APAC nations and regional economies score high in a ranking by the World Bank that assesses the ease of doing business around the world. Four out of the five top contenders in the 2020 edition- New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea – are fr…
With the number of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. surpassing 13 million and a record 93,000 Americans currently hospitalized due to the disease, health officials warned people to refrain from traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday. Dr. Anthony Fauc…