Wall Street Currents

How market size drove the localisation of knowledge hubs in the US - Knowledge hubs are generally located in large and dynamic population clusters, but there is little empirical evidence on what has driven the location of se...

Walmart's India (Flipkart) Gambit: Growth Rebirth or Costly Facelift? - On May 9, 2018, Walmart confirmed officially what had been rumored for weeks, and announced that it would pay $16 billion to acquire a 77% stake in Flipka...

Why Everyone Hates Finance and What to Do about It - "Finance is being demonized, and it's being demonized because people don't understand it," Mihir A. Desai says. "If we want to stop demonization, we have t...

Who Blinked? Who Cares? - May 21, 2018 Just end all this tariff nonsense and let’s get back to business. Farmers have soybeans to plant and Campbell’s urgently needs cheaper can p...

The Old Allure of New Money - Practically no one, outside of computer science departments, can explain how cryptocurrencies work, and that mystery creates an aura of exclusivity, gives ...

Economic Predictions with Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity - The availability of large data sets, combined with advances in the fields of statistics, machine learning, and econometrics, have generated interest in for...

LJM – The Autopsy - We put our internal quants from RCM-X on the case, and they dug into the numbers on the LJMIX SEC filing as of Jan 31, 2018 (about a week before things wen...

Dollar Strength Leads To Large Cap Stock Outperformance - A recent strengthening of the US Dollar has some investment commentary now favoring small cap stocks over large cap stocks. This is partly due to the earni...

Trade Talks Episode 38: ZTE, Trump, and China—What’s the Fuss? -

Train Crash Preview - Today we will summarize something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Exactly how will we get from the credit crisis, which I think is coming in the ...

Before you bail on bonds, consider these 4 charts - Rising interest rates have spooked many bond investors. However, history shows that not all bonds are that scary—even when rates are rising.

Company Notes Digest 05.13.18 - 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...

The Case for Shorting Tech and Buying India - Money manager Chuck Clough explains why he likes biotech, home builders in India, and DIY retailers for U.S. millennials.

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) -

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.

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...