Ever since a thunderous start to September's bond calendar, which saw a record 20 companies issue $26 billion in record cheap investment grade debt in a single day, corporate America has been on a historic bond selling spree to lock in ultra-low rate
With more than 16 trillion or so of global bonds now offering negative yields and the dovish turn by the Federal Reserve this year, investors have been increasingly drawn to high yield bonds (or "junk" bonds, as they are sometimes called) issued
Wayne Rohde (The Vaccine Court) on exposing the imbalanced liability protection for powerful vaccine manufacturers; Wayne is a speaker at the Vaccine Ed Summit - Tim Picciott (The Liberty Advisor; Wealth Manager) give the Economic Report
The shock of yesterday's US Equities factor reversals will go down in infamy alongside the August 2007 "Quant Quake" and the Fed / March / April 2016 "Market-Neutral Unwind" as one of the more stunning trades in modern market history--and
Given the current state of affairs in the investment markets - particularly that fundamentals have long ceased mattering and tweets move the markets instead - I think a frank discussion is called for.
Last week, the Big Short's Michael Burry sparked a fresh wave of outrage among the Gen-Z and algo traders (if not so much the handful of humans who have actually witnessed a bear market) on Wall Street, by calling the darling of modern capital market
Total potential debt for the U.S. by one all-encompassing measure is running close to 2,000% of GDP, according to an analysis that suggests danger but also cautions against reading too much into the level.
Yet while the article's title held promise "Blame Economists for the Mess We're In," it turns out the author had no interest in examining economics as a self-serving or compromised profession per se. He merely laments what he sees as its pro-m
Rick Rule, President & CEO of Sprott USA Holdings, speaks with us again on SBTV as we discuss why math alone is supporting the case for gold and silver, and dissect investor psychology to distinguish the habits of winners and losers in bull and bear
Nobel laureate Robert Shiller sat down with Bloomberg this week to discuss narrative economics, which is how a story or a series of related economic events can drive animal spirits in an economy.
Stocks within inches of record highs and bonds within mm of record low yields... and all on the back of a call and a possible round of trade talks in a month...
The following commentary might make your brain short-circuit. It claims that France has more market competition than the U.S., due to less consolidation of industry, which in turn is due in part to the EU being more aggressive about stopping market
You're seeing it pretty much throughout the world. It's only a matter of time before it's more in the United States," Alan Greenspan says.
There is currently more than $16 trillion in negative yielding debt around the world as central banks
Economic analyst Peter Schiff is not mincing words when it comes to the state of the United States economy. In fact, he isn't wrong in the least when he says that this is the weakest manufacturing economy since the Great Recession of a decade ago.
BofA's periodic report on "The Biggest Pictures", published by Chief Investment Stategist Michael Hartnett, is always a treat, if for no other reason than the remarkable context it provides on some more contemporaneous themes such as rates, markets a
With Flash PMI in contraction and ISM sliding fast, expectations were for a very modest rise in both measures of manufacturing in August as 'hard' US macro data picked up relative to expectations.
For plutocrats, this summer has gotten a bit scary. Two feared candidates are rising. Trusted candidates are underperforming. The 2020 presidential election could turn out to be a real-life horror movie: A Nightmare on Wall Street.
What a fascinating environment; each week bringing something extraordinary. Yet there is this dreadful feeling that things are advancing toward some type of cataclysm.
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