Market Overview

Last Friday, Bloomberg reported that: “President Vladimir Putin said Russia's economy, battered by sanctions and a collapsing currency, faces a potential ‘catastrophic’ slump in oil...

At a gathering at the Andaz Hotel in New York, October 22, a number of the alternative investment industry’s best and brightest discussed the new drivers of growth.The event, sponsored by...

A number of prominent ECB members have spoken today and some of the comments were interesting in terms of what to expect of the ECB going forward. ECB president Mario Draghi strengthened expectations...

Soft inflation in Britain will grab the market’s attention with today’s monthly update on consumer prices from the government. Later, the Mannheim-based Centre for European Economic...

Everyone blew out in October… The difficult October for active managers continues to be the talk of the industry. Most risk managers blinked in the face of rising volatility and now they are...

The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend it on? As you might expect, personal jets, giant yachts, works of art, and luxury...

As expected, the follow through lower in the Dollar didn’t last for long and actually saw the targets in EUR/USD and USD/CHF reach within a few points of expectations. Equally, once seen, the...

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil for December delivery is currently priced at $75 per barrel, Brent for January delivery at $78 per barrel. Many investors, publications and news sources...

In its SEC 13F filing after the market closed on Friday, November 14, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) revealed several major changes to its portfolio during the third quarter of 2014.Berkshire’s...

There is a popular American military term called a “last stand”, which is meant to describe a situation where a combat force attempts to hold a defensive position in the face of...

We open this commentary with a link to the October 31 policy statement of the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan. Any serious investor who has not read it is invited to go to this link right...

At the G20 summit held over the weekend in Australia, member nations agreed to implement policy changes to accelerate global economic growth by an additional 2.1% by 2018. British Prime Minister David...

Asian session updateToday's big news once again comes from Japan, where a significant shortfall in gross domestic product signals that country's return into technical recession. Japanese GDP was...

In a recent paper cited last month in The Economist, a trio of economists ran a kitchen sink’s worth of correlations on investment numbers. Kothari et al. concluded that...