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By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA Last week on the "Behind the Markets" podcast, Professor Jeremy Siegel from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Diego Rodriguez-Palenzuela, who heads the European Central Bank's (ECB) business analysis div...

When an inestimable amount of "Risk" is staring at you, hard in the face, then it is time to back up from the "Danger Zone." That is how I play the Great Game, to respect Grant's first through tenth Rule, which is "Preservation of Capital." It is the identification of the "Risk," which is impo...

Overview After surging yesterday, equities are struggling to maintain the momentum that carried that S&P 500 to its best level since last October. Most Asia-Pacific equity markets advanced. Japan's small losses were a notable exception. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 has advanced in four of the...

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By Alasdair Macleod Despite the ECB's subsidy of the Eurozone's banking system , it remains in a sleepwalking state similar to the non-financial, non-crony-capitalist zombified economy. Gone are the heady days of investment banking. There is now a legacy of derivatives and regulators' fin...

Original Post By Stuart Burns Observers outside the U.K. have probably viewed the Brexit process with a generally sanguine approach, assuming that the mother of all parliaments would come - in that most British of traditions - to some kind of pragmatic solution to the wide disparit...

By John Taylor Now that the UK has avoided (at least for now) a hard Brexit as it negotiates to extend Article 50, investors might reasonably wonder whether they can relax for a moment and take stock of the bigger picture. What sort of longer-term future does the European Union (EU) have, ...

Theresa May, Prime Minister of Britain, had asked for a new Brexit deadline of June 30. This was denied by the European Union. What was granted, however, was an extension to May 22, the day before the EU elections commence, if the Prime Minister can persuade lawmakers in Parliament to accept h...

Originally published March 21, 2019 We are but 9 days away from the Brexit deadline. Britain has asked for an extension and the President of France denied it yesterday. I do not like calling "Wolf" but we may be headed for a crisis. What we know for sure, today, is that there is a massive ...

It is very easy for Americans to view Brexit from a British perspective. Our (approximately) common language makes British media very accessible. The events in the British parliament are dramatic and can be watched on YouTube. Our President (and his family ) are getting involved in the proc...