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Boris Johnson's vision for Brexit is seeing its first big test in Parliament today, when lawmakers vote on his Withdrawal Agreement Bill in its "second reading."
Central bank needs to ensure ‘it will never happen again’
Fmr. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers last week slammed the idea of a wealth tax proposed by some Democratic presidential candidates while speaking as part of a panel on economic inequality.
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the Massachusetts Democrat and presidential contender pointed to the mid-September repo market turmoil and the causes that have been cited for the issues...
In short, what do they know about the banking system that we don't?
“In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first…
Deutsche Bank’s argument against the dollar is more about an argument for the other side of the trade, the euro.
Despite historically low mortgage rates, sales have not commensurately increased, in part due to a low level of new housing options.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York injected $99.9 billion in temporary liquidity into financial markets Tuesday.
Higher prevailing gold prices work wonders...
Rene Magritte’s 1929 painting “The Treachery of Images,” depicts a tobacco pipe with a caption that reads “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” (French for “This is not a pipe”). Everyone who has taken a course in modern art knows that Magritte’s exercise in contradiction was meant to draw a distinction between a real thing and a representation of that thing. Perhaps we should send Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a beret and an easel as he is attempting a similarly surrealistic take on monetary policy.
Last week, Keynesian extraordinaire Paul Krugman called for more fiscal stimulus in the form of a "government investment program." Mike Maharrey poked fun of him in his Fun on Friday column. But while it might be amusing to crack jokes at the expense of Keynsians and their obsession with both fiscal and monetary stimulus, the policies they promote are actually quite pernicious.In fact, the do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to.
A majority of banks globally may not be economically viable because their returns on equity aren’t keeping pace with costs, McKinsey said in its annual review of the industry released Monday.
“This cycle’s asset bubble is the emerging-market sector,” Levy said. “In the next recession there will be serious problems for emerging markets.”
UBS reported a fall in third-quarter income and pre-tax profit on Tuesday.
Investors with $1 million or more are much more concerned about the U.S. economy and stock market than they were just one quarter ago, according to a new survey from E-Trade Financial.
High on the list of things bulls dread this earnings season is that it become the scene of a big downward cut in next year’s estimates. It happened last year, helping foment the worst fourth quarter of the bull market. And though it’s very early,...
An increasing number of business executives and economists have spoken up against adopting a negative interest rates policy for long.
'This is all likely to get much worse'. The central bank has been working feverishly to address issues that popped up more than a month ago in the repo market.
After Brokerage Commission Wars, Interest Rates May Be Next BattlegroundOct 22, 2019 - 04:59:16 PDT
After shaking up trading fees, fintech companies are looking to a new area of financial services disruption: overdraft fees and interest rates.