Margin debt in the US is declining: NYSE margin debt surged from $182 billion to $505 billion in the six years ended in June 2015, roughly tracing the trajectory of the S&P 500, which tripled …
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October 8, 2015
The Fed didn’t hike rates in September largely due to global risks: Federal Reserve officials put off an interest-rate increase in September because of growing risks, mainly from China, to their outlook for economic growth …
October 7, 2015
Morgan Stanley’s got an interesting view on the next Fed move – more easing! Morgan Stanley, one of the 22 primary dealers that trade directly with the Fed, says its clients began discussing the possibility …
October 6, 2015
There are a lot of unsolved mysteries in life. How do they get the caramel into a Caramilk bar? Why did that hot chick in high school go out with jerks instead of me? Was …
October 5, 2015
Here’s another reason why bubbles are bad: When the housing market was hot, from the late 1990s to 2006, there were many good jobs that didn’t require a college education. For a certain kind of …
October 2, 2015
Jobs, jobs …. whoopsy! Silver linings were tough to come by in the September jobs data. Payrolls came in at a much-weaker-than-forecast 142,000, while August and July figures were revised down. Wage growth was nonexistent …
October 1, 2015
There is official concern about a sharp rise in buy-to-let investments in the UK: Buy-to-let lending could pose a risk to financial stability. The actions of buy-to-let investors affect the broader housing and mortgage markets …
September 30, 2015
Apparently, somebody important has told Lapdog Carney to talk about climate change: Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, declared that the warming climate presented major risks for the global economy and global …
September 29, 2015
There are high level worries about the Hong Kong property market: Hong Kong home prices are the highest relative to shares of the city’s publicly-traded developers in almost two decades. For Bocom International Holdings Co. …
September 28, 2015
Here’s a story that brings together two themes frequently highlighted on PrefBlog – the difficulty of pricing corporate bonds and the incompetence of traders as investors: Canada’s C$112 billion ($84 billion) Public Sector Pension Investment …