Wall Street Currents

361 Capital Wins WealthManagement.com Award for Top Asset Manager: Alternatives - DOWNLOAD PDF > DENVER—September 30, 2016—361 Capital, a leading boutique asset manager offering institutional-quality alternative strategies to instituti...

What Moves Futures Markets - A three market mashup of the CME's infographics covering grains, meats, and energy markets, highlighting 5 main categories of events that move futures pric...

How is the DJSI Helping to Drive Positive Change? - Learn more about how the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices shapes investor behavior and the continued appetite for sustainability investing. S&P DJI’s Jon W...

Daily Agenda: Equities Retreat as Quarter Ends - Deutsche Bank shares skid and concerns over European banks rise; Och-Ziff settles bribery case; U.K. consumer confidence improves; USA Today takes anti-Tru...

Weekend Reads: How to Profit from a Crisis - [image: Weekend Reads: How to Profit from a Crisis]Will Ortel summarizes three books that each offer its own flavor of apocalyptic investing and compiles a...

From the Vault: Does Forward Guidance Work? - In recent months, there have been some high-profile assessments of how far the Federal Reserve has come in terms of communicating about monetary policy sin...

Performance of the Implied Equity Duration in Small Stock Markets (papers.ssrn.com) -

Company Notes Digest 9.30.16 - 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...

Democracy does not cause growth - The debate over whether democracy causes economic prosperity and growth dates back millennia. Recent empirical results suggest that democratisation has a s...

Emerging Markets Equities – Emerging Investment Performance - The outlook for EM asset classes is turning more positive, or at the very least, less negative – according to Russell Investments’ Senior Investment Strate...

Latin America’s Challenges in an Era of Secular Stagnation - Pablo García Silva, board member of the Central Bank of Chile, will share his insights in a presentation titled “Latin America’s Challenges in an Era of Se...

Daily Agenda: Stocks, Commodities Rise on Saudi Change of Heart - OPEC leader backs oil-production caps; India strikes inside Pakistan; Pepsi earnings up; Spain struggles to form government; big layoffs at Commerzbank.

Gold vs. Paper: The Only Debate That Matters - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

The Islamic Hatred of Modernity - I have for you a very interesting and unusual piece for this week’s Outside the Box. It is not that I do not regularly send things by authors who see the w...

A Walk Down Memory Lane: Thoughts on HPIs and Financial Indexes as The Dow Celebrates Its 120th Birthday - On May 26th, 2016, the granddaddy of all equity indexes—the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)—turned 120. The 30 blue-chip companies that comprise the D...

The Risk Of Dismissing The Data: The TED Spread And Baltic Dry Index - No single variable or statistic provides clear insight into the future direction of the economy or stock market. When a data point does not fit ones narrat...

Infrastructure Stocks Could Rally on Election - Clinton and Trump both want to boost infrastructure spending. Jamie Cook, of CSFB, picks industry winners.

New Wilshire Study: BXMD and PUT Indexes Offered Higher Returns, Lower Volatility Over Three Decades - By Matt Moran SEPT. 21, 2016 – Wilshire Associates recently was ranked as one of the world’s ten largest investment consultants, due to the fact that it ha...

The Coming Anti-National Revolution - NEW HAVEN – For the past several centuries, the world has experienced a sequence of intellectual revolutions against oppression of one sort or another. The...

Apple Tax Grab by EU Invades IRS Airspace - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Fairness Opinions: Fix them or Flush them! - My post on the Tesla/SCTY deal about the ineptitude and laziness that Lazard and Evercore brought to the valuation process did not win me any friends in t...

How 70% Of Financial Advisors Feel Pressured To Invest In This Market - By Paul Katzeff, Investors Business Daily Experience and common sense have taught financial advisors that, when it comes to safeguarding... [ Read More ]

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