Jobs, jobs, jobs!: The American labor market unleashed a burst of hiring in January, producing another wave of robust job growth even as interest rates continue to rise. Employers added 517,000 jobs on a seasonally …
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February 2, 2023
The IMF has published a piece in defence of globalization: Today’s surge in inflation grows out of the interplay of supply chain disruptions with large fiscal deficits. The pandemic, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, …
February 1, 2023
So the Fed hiked 25bp today: Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation has eased somewhat …
January 31, 2023
HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices Values are provisional and are finalized monthly Index Mean Current Yield (at bid) Median YTW Median Average Trading Value Median Mod …
January 30, 2023
The BoC has announced: The most recent addition to the Bank of Canada’s set of stakeholder surveys2 is the Market Participants Survey (MPS). The MPS engages a diverse set of participants in financial markets and …
January 27, 2023
Offbeat indices have been used to try and predict inflation. If I remember correctly, Greenspan liked one that had to do with trucks; but there’s another form of transport that has come to the fore: …
January 26, 2023
Well, here’s a paper that will receive some attention! One of a long series, I’ll bet … The 2021–22 Surge in Inflation by Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Jim MacGee and Luis Uzeda: The rise in inflation in …
January 25, 2023
TXPR closed at 576.60, down 0.65% on the day. Volume today was 1.21-million, near the median of the past 21 trading days. CPD closed at 11.47, down 0.78% on the day. Volume was 93,580, slightly …
January 24, 2023
Here’s a few more interesting papers on the inflation risk premium, for those who have been clamouring for them. At some point I hope to highlight them properly, but for now I just want to …
January 23, 2023
Nice article titled Inflation risk and the inflation risk premium by Geert Bekaert and Xiaozheng Wang Another interesting paper was Residential Mortgage Securitization in Canada: A Review by Adi Mordel and Nigel Stephens, which showed …