However you plan to spend Christmas this year, it is unlikely to resemble any festive period in recent memory. With the world still battling the Covid-19 pandemic, wide-ranging restrictions on our daily lives continue to force us to adapt our behaviour…
The COVID-19 vaccine is finally entering the arms of the first Americans after less than a year of research and development. The amazing feat of medical science signals the beginning of the end for an unprecedented global pandemic that’s killed over 1….
Remote work has proved to be an effective replacement for many companies and employees throughout the year. While the absence of in-person collaboration has been tough to recreate, workflow and the organizational structure of workers has adapted well f…
It’s Fed QE MBS settlement week. You can’t keep a market down for long when those billions and billions get pumped into dealer accounts.
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.
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.
I’m not a currency trader, but like it or not we are all currency traders now as the movements of the dollar and equities are tightly linked. Dollar up, markets down and […]
Inflation Expectations in the United States increased to 2.96 percent in November from 2.84 percent in October of 2020. Inflation Expectations in the United States averaged 2.82 percent from 2013 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 3.40 percent in…
Chinese shipping indices show a surge in the price of shipping goods out of two major Chinese ports. The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index and the Ningbo Containerized Freight Index, representing two of the three biggest container ports in the world…
The volume of goods transported around the globe by container ships has increased continuously in recent years. Data from the Hong Kong Marine Department shows that ports in Asia, especially in China, are increasingly dominating the industry. In 2005, …