Present policies may be sowing the seeds for the next financial crisis. Despite recent market optimism, we believe present interventions could produce significant future adverse and unintended consequences. Rather than curing the patient, the present initiatives may be overprescribing the patient with medication that cause significant side effects (and leave…
Traders are at a stage in the market cycle that is one of the most frustrating to deal with, and where the most money gets squandered trying to work things out. This stage is when we go through a phase of consolidation, moving sideways consolidating the recent moves made, while…
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We continue to expect the economic recovery to start late this year. Yet we see the recovery as being different in both character (less diversified) and strength (weaker) relative to past recoveries. Therefore, we believe the recovery will be disappointing to both citizens and policymakers. Such disappointment means more difficult…
March proved to be a remarkable month with stock markets rallying and a number of U.S. data indicators sliding onto the stronger-than-expected side of the ledger. The world stock market index that we track posted a gain of close to 8% and the S&P 500 rose 8.7%. The Federal Reserve…
It is clear that the credit crisis will not end until the ‘toxic assets’ issue is resolved. Progress has been made on this in the past month but a clear cut end to the crisis still seems some distance away. However, the trough of the economic downturn appears to be…
