Financial Markets

The Dreaded R word: Recession Looms Following Dismal Jobs Report

With inflation now officially below 3%, all eyes are on the FED expecting interest rate cuts.

More and more stimulus and no production will only generate inflation and markets know this.

How to kill a giant that defies normal macroeconomic stimulus is to address the incentives question directly - put a bounty on its cure.

Are there visions of the 1970s stagflation showing up in the US given the Saudi oil attacks over the weekend? Quite possibly!

Global trade and exchange rates are inextricably linked. The trade war has inevitably spilled over into currencies and could only get worse.

All eyes are on the FED and they expect an interest rate cut. Is an interest rate cut however necessary? Probably not.

Stock markets seem to have somewhat stabilized from the huge volatility that rocked the economy late last year. The government shutdown...

The December jobs report released this past Friday showed a US economy exhibiting remarkable resilience in spite of a number of...

The end of 2018 witnessed very large volatility in stocks and formally put the economy in Bear Market territory - a collapse in stock...

The Powell-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the benchmark interest rate to a target of 2.25 - 2.5 percent this month,...