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If you stand in the middle of the playing field of the Great Game, you will notice the goalposts. At one end of the field is "Fear" and at the other end ¼¼is "Greed." The herd is constantly driven towards one, or the other, as economic and political events are posted on the screens t...
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA European stock markets are currently having their worst 10-year stretch for relative returns compared with the U.S. stock market in 40 to 50 years. 1 Despite continued Brexit uncertainty weighing on sentiment, investors might want to start paying attention to Europ...
At the recent annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank Group in Washington, DC, finance ministers and central bankers from around the world were apparently supportive of the idea of fiscal stimulus to stoke the tepid global economy but there was little agreement on precisely what to do. ...
"History proves… that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse." – Ben Bernanke Recent developments from Europe brought to market attention a leaked document showing that the ECB’s mo...
Now that Germany's second largest cooperative lender has started charging retail customers to account for negative interest rates, other German banks are warming to the idea, Bloomberg reports. More news on: Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft, Commerzbank AG, iShares MSCI Europe Financials...
The acknowledgement by the current ECB President Mario Draghi and incumbent Christine Lagarde that fiscal policy is required to drive the eurozone forward is a “game-changer,” JDI Research founder Juliette Declerq told Real Vision. Relying on extreme monetary policy alone...
The Fed's cut was in-line with consensus expectations. Their future outlook will certainly not please our President. Chairman Powell's position that we are in a "mid-cycle adjustment" seems to be what has driven the Fed to their conclusion. This viewpoint, I believe, is in error. What is mis...
The European Central Bank offered banks cheap loans but banks weren't biting, with only 28 of the region's lenders bidding for €3.4B ($3.8B) of the loans. More news on: iShares MSCI Europe Financials Sector Index ETF, Direxion Shares ETF Trust - Direxion Daily MSCI European F...
By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist Weekly Market Compass: If governments aren't willing to enact fiscal stimulus, central banks may need to consider more hands-on ways to promote spending Last week, the European Central Bank ((ECB)) decided to take a significant ste...
By Andrew Mulliner, CFA Andrew Mulliner, CFA, a Global Bonds Portfolio Manager, reflects on the European Central Bank’s decision to cut rates and bring back quantitative easing. Expectations were high coming into the European Central Bank (ECB) meeting on Thursday in spite o...
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NEW YORK , March 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent and near unprecedented volatility across global markets, driven by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price war, has dramatically increased the explicit and implicit cost of trading in the energy and commodities markets. While...