Wall Street Currents

Paid family leave and breastfeeding - Mothers in the US breastfeed their infants at higher rates today than at any point in documented history, but low-income mothers have become less likely to...

Buybacks Down In First Quarter 2019, But Remain Near A High - Late last month S&P Dow Jones Indices reported preliminary dividend and buyback results for the S&P 500 Index for first quarter of 2019. On a quarter over ...

Hedged Equity May Help You Gain More by Losing Less - This chart illustrates the four largest market drops during drawdown periods* and how the 361 Global Long/Short Equity Fund captured less drawdown than t...

Trade Talks Episode 93: US Trade Policy Before Trump, with Ambassador Michael Froman -

At the New York Fed: Research Conference on FinTech - Financial technology (“FinTech”) refers to the evolving intersection of financial services and technology. In March, the New York Fed hosted "The First New...

Recession Rumbles - I’m often asked if recession is coming, and for quite different reasons. Some people worry about their investments. Others are worried about their employme...

Book Review: Bond Pricing and Yield Curve Modeling - Riccardo Rebonato combines theory with current empirical evidence to build a robust understanding of what drives the government bond market.

Sector Primer Series: Industrials - See what makes up the Industrials sector, and what effect the sector has on the S&P 500.

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Meatless Future or Vegan Delusions? The Beyond Meat Valuation - In a big year for initial public offerings (IPOs), with Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and Zoom, to name just a few, already having gone public and more companies w...

Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point - The term “modern monetary theory” has been talked about so much lately that we mainstream economists need to try to understand it. We’re having trouble, th...

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...

VIX + Quants - The perception out there is that VIX traders are typically cowboys—swinging for the fences a la Mr. 50 cent or turning a small stake into millions like the...

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...

Trump Plays with Fire on Trade - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

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.

A New Challenge to the Dollar - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

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...