Wall Street Currents

NYC’s Scott Evans on Turning Around the City’s Pension System - The retirement system’s CIO talks about repairing its offices, slashing the meeting calendar, and normalizing operations — all things that “just didn’t exi...

Bitcoin Average Dormancy: A Measure of Turnover and Trading Activity (papers.ssrn.com) -

Chinese Steel Exports to the United States Dropped Dramatically in 2016 - On April 20, 2017, the Trump administration self-initiated an investigation on whether steel imports “threaten to impair" national security, using section ...

Market Pullbacks Should Be Expected - There have been plenty of reasons to sell stocks since the end of the financial crisis in 2008. The drumbeat seems to be getting louder as the postwar mark...

Low Productivity Growth: The Capital Formation Link - A major economic concern is the ongoing sluggishness in the growth of output per worker hour, generally called labor productivity. In an arithmetic sense, ...

Lucy Kellaway on Office Life, Creativity, and Culture - Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway writes about office life, pushing back against some deep-rooted habits and misconceptions among workers and job app...

The falling elasticity of global trade to economic activity - In recent years there has been debate over whether the global trade slowdown and related fall in trade-to-income elasticity was structural or cyclical. Thi...

Weekend Review of VIX Futures and Options – 6/25/2017 - VIX was a bit lower to end the week and the curve moved down as well. We retired June last week and now July is the front month and is at a premium of ju...

Mad Hawk Disease Strikes Federal Reserve - “A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.” – Ernest Hemingway

In Long Run, There’s No Such Thing as an Einstein Investor - There are no easy answers in investing. It is tempting to replicate a successful strategy — one created by an outstanding investor, like Warren Buffett, or...

Rock Creek's Winning Bet on Hedge Funds, Emerging Markets - The alternative-assets firm, run by Afsaneh Beschloss, uses broad economic themes to find promising public and private investments

Signals and Risk - Customizing the S&P 500® - Explore a custom rules-based approach to tracking sector trends while keeping risk in check with CMG Capital Management Group’s Steve Blumenthal, Ned Davis...

361 Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund Wins Pinnacle Award For Best Single Sector CTA - DOWNLOAD PDF > Denver—June 22, 2017—361 Capital, a leading boutique asset manager offering distinctive investment strategies to institutions, investment ...

Uber's bad week: Doomsday Scenario or Business Reset? - Uber just cannot seem to help itself, finding a way to get in the news, and often in ways that leave its image in tatters. You could see this pattern in fu...

Is now the time to reduce bond exposure? - Basic math suggests that selling out of bonds before interest rates rise is a no-brainer. If only it was that simple.

Here Comes Quantitative Tightening - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Company Notes Digest 6.15.17 - 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...

British Election Sends Shockwaves Felt Here and Abroad - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Franklin Parker Wins 2017 NAAIM Founders Award - 2017 NAAIM Founders Award Winner Franklin Parker Shows How Using Active Allocation is the Best Way to Achieve Your Goals... [ Read More ]

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.

Alternative Links: Fed Raises Rates - Fed Raises Rates for First Time in 2016, Anticipates 3 Increases in 2017

Home Equity Wealth Makes a Comeback - Home prices have risen significantly throughout the nation since the trough in the housing cycle. Through August 2016, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home...

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...