Wall Street Currents

Earnings Strongest in 15 Years, but Analyst Sentiment Soured in the Third Quarter, According to the 361 Capital Wall Street Mood Monitor - DOWNLOAD PDF > DENVER, October 18, 2018—Despite strong earnings growth among U.S. companies, Wall Street analyst sentiment cooled considerably in the thi...

Trade Talks Episode 59: A Hard Border from History -

Bank-Intermediated Arbitrage - Since the 2007-09 financial crisis, the prices of closely related assets have shown persistent deviations—so-called basis spreads. Because such disparities...

Andrew W. Lo: To Survive Adaptive Markets, Look to Biology - Andrew W. Lo explained how insights from biology can address the shortcomings of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH).

William Nordhaus and the costs of climate change - William Nordhaus of Yale University has been jointly awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Paul Romer for ‘integrating climate change into...

Alan Greenspan on What Trump Gets Wrong and Sweden Gets Right - The former Federal Reserve chief sat down with Barron’s to discuss what he’s worried about. It’s not a short list.

Hiring Pace Continues To Lag Job Openings Growth - If job openings are an indication of the economy's strength, yesterday's Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTs) report is confirmation of economic strengt...

High and higher: The Money in Marijuana! - In 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president of the United States, and was asked whether he had ever smoked marijuana, he responded that he had, bu...

Getting to the finish line - As you make your fall push before year-end, remind yourself and your team: It takes a strategic plan, training, persistence and grit to reach the finish line.

Red Hot China Mailbag - An odd aspect of being a writer is you never know in advance what will excite readers. I’ve written letters I thought very provocative only to draw mostly ...

Protecting Workers Without Tariffs -

Company Notes Digest 8.26.18 - 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...

Tulane University Professors Win the 2018 NAAIM Founders Award and $5,000 - Littleton, CO – May 7, 2018 – Professors Shuoyuan He and Gans Narayanamoorthy of Tulane University in New Orleans, LA,... [ Read More ]

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...

Science-Based Targets: How Aligning Carbon Reduction Targets With Climate Science Can Drive Business Growth - Science-based targets (SBTs) are environmental performance targets that are set to align business objectives with scientific evidence on the planet’s abili...

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...