…transaction data in the repo market for Treasury Securities. The major improvements come from the new rate being harder to manipulate because it comes from real transaction data instead of…
…boost to the bottom line, but what will companies do with those extra profits? Lower tax rates for individuals and businesses change the value of tax exempt interest and that…
…the inception of the MSCI in 1970, you might wonder why bother with international stocks: they’ve underperformed the S&P 500 by 1.81 percent per year and were about 10 percent…
…that markets were too aggressive in the policy changes to come. At the meeting last week, Powell held his ground. I have to admit that as much I don’t like…
…percent, the hedged EM index lost 3.85 percent and the un-hedged EM index lost 6.2 percent through yesterday. Bond investing involves risk and losses have, can and will occur, but…
…expected to die, it’s a probably estimate. Half the people with your circumstances (heredity, physical condition, gender, etc.) will die before their life expectancy and half will live longer. This…
…Lower oil prices are affecting nearly all companies throughout the supply chain from upstream producers who pull out hydrocarbons to downstream infrastructure and service companies. Right now, markets are waiting…
…have times like this even though there’s no way that we could pinpoint which economic surveys, earnings releases or contagious diseases would be the cause. Volatility and losses were, are,…
…leading index provider for non-US securities and using these two indexes allows me to look at the world in two consistently created components: the US versus the rest of the…
Returns for stocks are great everywhere you look in the developed world. One of the best places though is in small US stocks. The Russell 2000, the most common small…
