Wall Street Currents

The Eye of the Storm: The Fed, Inflation, and the Ides of October - The inflation storm may have passed. But don't bet on it.

China's zero-COVID policies are crippling its economic outlook - Every summer, Chinese tourists descend on the beach resorts in Sanya on Hainan Island, known as the Hawaii of China. Last weekend, the tourists got an unpl...

Three Key Facts from the Center for Microeconomic Data’s 2022 Student Loan Update - Today, researchers from the Center for Microeconomic Data released the 2022 Student Loan Update, which contains statistics summarizing who holds student lo...

Recession or Not - Undoubtedly the current investing environment for investors is as tough a one as there has been for some time. Compounding interpretation of the data now i...

August Edition: GDP Getting Real | Dog Days of August | Recession? It Doesn’t Matter | Momentum Improving | Questions Remain Longer Term | Coiled Spring | The News Is Bad, But… | Looking For Confirmation - NAAIM Speaks is monthly newsletter containing market insights and analysis from NAAIM member firms. This newsletter is designed to provide... [ Read More ]

S&P U.S. Equity Momentum 40% VT 4% Decrement Index Brochure - For years, large financial institutions have used momentum signals and futures contracts to capitalize on market trends. Leveraging futures has historicall...

Divest or engage? - When pension giant ABP faced protests about its fossil fuel investment strategy, did it choose to exert pressure on oil companies or divest from them? Jeff...

A Zomato 2022 Update: Value, Pricing and the Gap - On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ₹41 per share. The market clearly had a very different view, as the ...

Inflation Is Not a Simple Story About Greedy Corporations - The word “Bidenflation” appeared in the news last summer, politicizing inflation and assigning blame for it. By December, the Consumer Price Index had rise...

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Asset Class Scoreboard – H1 2021 - The Q2 numbers are in – and there’s just no stopping commodities, it seems, as they put in another three months of gains to lead all assets YTD as we hi...

Analytic Global Alpha Model - Analytic Global Alpha Model Global Factor allocation Five years ending March 31, 2021 Past performance is not indicative of future results. For investmen...

حجر هاشمي هيصم: هل هو افضل انواع احجار تشطيب الواجهات؟ - الحجر الهاشمى هيصم: هل هو افضل انواع احجار الديكور؟ يعتبر حجر هاشمى هيصم من بين أنواع الحجر الهاشمي الأفضل على الإطلاق، خاصة وأنه يمتلك الكثير من المواصفات...

Light in the COVID Tunnel - If you ever think you just can’t win, I know how you feel. I’m labeled both a doomsayer and a Pollyanna—sometimes in reaction to the same letter.

The Case for Avoiding U.S. Stocks and Buying Asia Instead - CLSA strategist Christopher Woods lays out his views on Asian emerging markets and the potential Trump trade deal with China—and says why the U.S. is his l...

Elevate your discovery process to help win great clients - As an advisor, honing your skills in asking the deep discovery questions sets the tone for a superior client experience. These simple steps may help you bu...

Company Notes Digest 11.05.18 - Each week we read dozens of transcripts from earnings calls and presentations as part of our investment process. Below is a weekly post which contains some...

Brackets and Defense – LOVOL and VXTH Indexes (that Bought VIX Calls) Had Lower Volatility - Over the past two months, there has been increased interest in (1) portfolio protection strategies (2) learning more about prudent uses of VIX® futures and...

Home Equity Wealth at New High - The latest flow-of-funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home-equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $13.9 trillion at mid-2017,...

Former Morgan Stanley Executive to Expand Rockefeller Capital Management - Gregory Fleming, formerly with Morgan Stanley, will expand Rockefeller Capital Management’s asset and wealth management businesses.

Econophysics of Business Cycles: Aggregate Economic Fluctuations, Mean Risks and Mean Square Risks (arxiv.org) -

Robots Expose Firms to Compliance Risks - Pressure to cut costs by replacing humans with robots may end up hurting firms if they’re not careful, PwC says.

MSCI Risk Monitor: RiskMetrics Europe - October 2015 - Under a standard RiskMetrics forecasting model, this monthly Risk Monitor reports on the evolution of risk forecasts for 12 key risk factors chosen for t...