Wall Street Currents

Stressed Outflows and the Supply of Central Bank Reserves - Since the financial crisis, banking regulators around the world have been intensely aware of liquidity risk and, in part as a response, have introduced the...

Brexit and the Irish border issue - The border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has become a central issue in the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU. This colum...

Subramanian of PIIE Discusses His New Book on India’s Economy at SAIS - The Johns Hopkins SAIS South Asia program will host a discussion on Arvind Subramanian's recent book, Of Counsel: The Challenges of the Modi-Jaitley Econom...

Party On Wayne, The Fundamentals Are Solid, No Cigar For The Bears!, Is there a New Message from the Markets?, A Broad Based Advance, Are We There Yet? The Trend Is Your Friend. And… - Party On, Wayne! By: David Moenning, Heritage Capital Research Published: 2.19.19 The joyride to the upside continued in the stock... [ Read More ]

Tug of War - 361 Capital Market Commentary | February 19, 2019 With the S&P 500 now trading at 16 times its 2019 consensus earnings estimate in a declining earnings e...

Howard Marks, CFA: Getting the Odds on Your Side - What are two of the most important things an investor needs to do to succeed? Howard Marks, CFA, offered his perspective.

3 Water Stocks That Could Rally - Seasoned water investor Matt Diserio likes Suez, Rexnord, and A.O. Smith. Why he’s wary of Primo Water.

Modern Monetary Madness - More than 10 years ago some Australian readers begin regaling me with the ideas of economist Bill Mitchell of the University of Newcastle in New South Wale...

January 2019 Data Update 8: Dividends and Buybacks - Fact and Fiction - In my series of data posts, I had always planned to get to dividends and buybacks, the two mechanisms that companies have for returning cash to stockholde...

Investor Sentiment Has Improved But Not To An Extreme Level - Several recent releases of various investor sentiment reports show an improvement in overall investor sentiment. In late December I noted a number of the s...

Morality and Money Management - Following his recent death, Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle was widely and generously eulogized – and justifiably so. But if everyone followed Bogle’s in...

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...

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.

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...

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