While these risks should be manageable in the near-term given improving growth expectations for 2021 on the back of massive stimulus, as the economy reverts back to full-capacity, Goldman concludes that "it will be crucial for both corporate bond issuers and investors to shift their decision-making frameworks to account for real, as opposed to nominal, outcomes."
Jeffrey Gundlach raised concern on Monday about the stock market and its high valuation relative to historical levels.
Nearly 186 years ago to the day, on January 8, 1835, US President Andrew Jackson accomplished what no other American president has done before, or since: he paid off the national debt.
The co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund expects China to emerge as a potential contender for the world’s financial centre in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with Financial Times Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said that 2020 was a “defining year” for China’s financial markets, with the country’s advance […]
Negative interest rates could provide significant stimulus, a Bank of England official said Monday amid speculation the U.K. central bank will move rates...
Rising corporate debt and the prospect of further Covid-19 lockdowns pose a systemic risk to France’s financial system that may rise in the coming months, according to the country’s central bank.
Sometimes things only make sense when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I'm thinking about reality, the very American and global reality clearly repeating itself as 2021 begins. We all know, of course,
One of the keys to being a successful investor is making sure you’re getting the right facts.
Recently, inflation expert Steve Hanke highlighted data showing that money supply is growing at an unprecedented rate.
A rising ‘debt tsunami’ threatens even stable, peaceful middle-income countries.
President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that he favors setting aside concerns about the federal deficit in order to spend more money to boost the ailing American economy.
Allocations to gold, silver and mining shares should be at least 10% of investor portfolios both as an inflation hedge and a hedge against declining confidence in central bank currencies.
Five Fed presidents spoke today in praise of rising inflation. Two of them promised low rates for a long time.
As part of the Outlook 2021 series, our Daniela Cambone speaks with David Morgan of the Morgan Report.
President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to pass a multitrillion-dollar economic stimulus package early in his administration faces challenges in a closely divided U.S. Senate...
Toronto-Dominion Bank will defend itself in a trial starting in a Canadian court on Monday in which liquidators of the collapsed Antigua bank of former Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford are seeking $5.5 billion in damages.
When the biggest U.S. banks begin reporting fourth-quarter results on Friday some of the headlines could show profits plunged by as much as 40% from a year earlier, before the pandemic struck.
Georgia voters might have given the green light to Modern Monetary Theory in America. Immediately after November’s election, I wrote that the Federal Reserve would have the weight of the world’s largest economy on its shoulders yet again, given what looked to be a divided government.
“Time to take some money off the table,” Scott Minerd, chief investment officer with Guggenheim Investments, said in a tweet from his verified Twitter account. “Bitcoin’s parabolic rise is unsustainable in the near term.”
he dollar rebound is picking up pace, with signs that speculative traders are busy covering short positions after U.S. Treasury yields surged.