As the markets anticipated an end to quantitative easing, the consensus expectation was that the pace of U.S. economic growth would pick up and inflation would remain quiescent. Things did ...Read More
Amid Libyan sanctions, the International Energy Agency took action in June to keep the world’s oil spigot at full flow. Price swings followed this new wrinkle in supply uncertainty. But ...Read More
Financial regulatory reform has been slower to take shape than anticipated. Regulators continue to mull over key provisions ranging from what defines a systemically important financial institution to the clearing ...Read More
Regaining Balance Major events in the first quarter of 2011 – the Libyan revolt, as well as broader Middle East unrest and the Japanese disaster – promise to alter the global ...Read More
Mexican markets are famous for food and hand-crafted goods. But those two words – “Mexican markets” – are increasingly evoking images of stocks and derivatives, at least among global financial ...Read More
Over its storied lifetime, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has matured into one of the world’s most widely quoted stock indexes. While its strong track record as a balanced, cross-sector ...Read More
Position limits are being proposed as a way to protect against “excessive speculation” and prevent large positions that could cause unwarranted cost increases to consumers around the world. Professor Craig ...Read More
Dwight Anderson, managing partner of Ospraie Management LLC, always keeps his eyes on commodities. Today he is focused on three major economic elements that will drive commodity prices: economic stimulus, ...Read More
When Daniel Yergin speaks on energy, people listen. Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former chair of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Task Force on Strategic Energy ...Read More
Trends in Eurodollar and Fed Funds Liquidity While a zero-interest-rate monetary policy may have helped to get the economy back to its feet, it left the short-term interest rate market flat ...Read More
The Treaty of Maastricht, signed in 1992, brought the birth of the euro in 1999. The currency has been a success in the view of many but the financial crisis ...Read More
For all the guff the Federal Reserve takes from critics, several things are clear to Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Ethan S. Harris – it avoided post-bubble mistakes made ...Read More
Chicago Board Options Exchange created the CBOE Volatility Index in 1933 but did not start trading the index until 2004. This index paved the way for volatility to evolve into ...Read More
Attempts to impose unreasonable regulation may simply shift business outside the United States than solve the fundamental problem, market experts say. But is regulatory arbitrage a given, or even a ...Read More
The crisis of confidence in the Greek economy has done more than roil sovereign debt markets. In addition to acting as a speed bump to the global recovery, Greece’s economic ...Read More
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive forged major changes to the European financial landscape. As the financial crisis winds down, U.K. and European Union regulators are looking at the next ...Read More
Should banks go back to being just, well, banks? Former Federal Reserve System Chairman and chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board thinks so. Here are his new thoughts on an ...Read More
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