Gold, platinum and palladium declined in their start Monday to the holiday-shortened trading week. Silver, meanwhile, advanced 1.3% to score its best finish in more than three months. Gold for Febr…
Pullbacks like we're seeing with gold are normal in a healthy bull market. And as I'll (Bill Shaw) explain today, I don't believe the gold trade is even close to getting overheated...
Forecasts of 2021 security returns are gaslighting investors into believing the future is bright. But market corrections are highly likely in 2021.
In the final negotiations over the next stimulus package, a key provision to help student loan borrowers was nixed.
The $900 billion economic relief bill carves out a slice for renters and landlords, but some economists claim it is not enough.
Mnuchin was able to delude the public with the idea that the Fed has just been sitting on over $400 billion of Treasury’s money, so it was time for Mnuchin to claw it back and kill the programs, because that information was inaccurately reported by mainstream media.
In traditional financial theory, interest rates are a key component of valuation models. When interest rates fall, the discount rate used in these models decreases and the price of the equity asset should appreciate, assuming all other model inputs stay constant.
A coronavirus aid deal lawmakers struck on Sunday will extend the national eviction ban through January and includes $25 billion in rental assistance.
While we are still dealing with the fallout brought on by Covid-19, the group most impacted by the pandemic is young workers. They are disproportionately shouldering the hits that have come from the pandemic.
Federal Reserve Assets surged $120 billion last week to a record $7.363 TN. Fed Assets inflated $3.593 TN, or 95%, over the past 66 weeks. M2 “money” supply surged $228 billion in this week’s report to a record $19.226 TN – with a 66-week gain of $4.255 TN (28%). Overheated markets have become wholly enchanted by this frightening monetary inflation.
Big-bank stocks climbed in early trading after lenders including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. said they’ll take up the Federal Reserve on its surprise decision letting them resume stock buybacks.
The Federal Reserve’s window to tinker with its bond-buying program may be narrowing, meaning there’s a risk that Treasury yields will climb faster than many predict.
Needless to say this is very bad news should inflation re-emerge because negative real yields have greatly increased the risk that a moderate inflation surprise could lead to all-out carnage in the bond market as all-in yield-based buyers puke everything.
Extremes get more extreme until risk breaks out; then the reversal will be as extreme as the bubble expansion.
Excuse me for asking but when did Congress add climate change to the Fed's list of mandates?
We’re entering a period of volatility and uncertainty. The best way to hedge your bets is to build up your homestead and make it more resilient.
The global economy’s worst year since World War II is ending on a bleak note for millions of people -- despite the prospects of a rebound that a coronavirus vaccine could offer.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke in a CNBC interview ahead of Congress' expected vote to pass the $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill.
If we look at the track record of central banks, it is particularly poor in predicting inflation while large supranational entities tend to err on the side of optimism in GDP estimates.
"Share repurchases," have accounted for nearly all buying in the market. A year later, that significant support for asset prices has reversed.