The past two days notwithstanding, I believe we are at the start of a lengthy bear market in equities. We certainly have not received “the big break” yet, but I offer these three charts. First is the Russell 2000 accompanied by the adva…
All this decay is so incremental that nobody thinks it possible that it could ever accumulate into a risk that threatens the entire system.
The purple line is the Fed’s System Open Market Account, in other words, its securities holdings. You see the Fed’s balance sheet normalization 2017-19, and then the return to massive QE in late 2019.
Yardi Matrix says February national average multifamily rent inflation was 15.3% y/y, 0.6% m/m. They survey thousands of rental communities in 140 US markets. These…
Originally posted by Jimbo at Capitalstool. LME VIX ET AL …… The house makes the rules. When you make the rules. Losing is optional. Heads…
This is not the end of the top. Nor is it the beginning of the top. But it is the beginning of the beginning of the top. We know that because on the hourly chart of the ES, S&P 500 futures, the hourly cycle indicators for the 5 day cycle are at pea…
As you know, the Chinese stock market (and property market, for that matter) has been a complete fiasco. To give you a taste of what’s been going on, I present to you a quantity of stocks (ironically, eight of them, which I deliberately chose…
U.S. and global oil benchmark prices climbed to their highest levels since 2011 and 2014, respectively, after OPEC and its oil-producing allies decided to stick to their plan of gradual output hikes despite the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
Although I don’t trade it myself, I just saw this admonition pop up on one of my brokerage accounts. So let me get this straight – – a financial instrument is designed to allow people to take advantage of increase in volatility, b…
Residents of Greece would have had to pay approximately six percent of their average monthly wage for a full tank of gas this past Monday due to the price hike connected to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine. This is the highest figure among all OE…