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Today, the market is filled with people who want to get rich fast. You cannot use logic and reason with a person who wants to get rich fast. Rational people not drunk on greed, who are fine with getting rich slowly, may want to avoid this market altogether. Investing in the stock ...

The debt ceiling is just one more thing that sets the US apart from most other countries. Fitch recently revised its rating outlook for the US from stable to negative, partly premised on the buildup of US debt through the pandemic. The dollar was weaker across the board at the tim...

Xu: A higher skew implies that more people are worried about a potential market sell-off. A rising U.S. dollar, falling real yields, tighter financial conditions are headwinds for equities. Xu: Shifting portfolio to more quality names to insulate against market risks. For fu...

The US stock market is structurally over-bullish with short-term sentiment jitters periodically resetting the bull. Despite divergences in market breadth, the headline index trends are firmly up. Despite valuation at historical highs, cyclical markets like stocks and commodities a...

Stocks have rallied on a belief that the Fed is taking a dovish tilt heading into the Jackson Hole Symposium. However, that tone is changing heading into tomorrow's event following some hawkish Fed governor's comments on Aug. 27. The bulls may be caught completely offside ignoring...

Long leading indicators generally turn down at least one year before the economy as a whole, and up six months in advance of a renewed expansion. There are 7 categories of such metrics with good historical records. While 6 of the 7 are positive for the short term, 3 turn negative ...

Global real GDP reached a new high in the second quarter of 2021, completing a year-long recovery from the COVID-19 recession. The resilience of the global economy amid a lingering pandemic suggests that the world is learning to live with the COVID-19 virus. Western Europe's consu...

Anyone who has been following the U.S. monthly economic data lately has noticed that the rate of inflation has been rising over the past year as the unemployment rate has fallen. When the Phillips curve first came to widespread attention in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was inter...

This year’s global symposium of central bankers, policymakers, and academic economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, comes at a very important juncture for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting minutes showed that officials ha...

A softening of sentiment indicators comes as rates already sit close to the bottom of their recent range. Positioning might push them lower still, but EUR rates, in particular, are already consistent with more central bank support next year. The belly of the US curve trades cheap,...