Deutsche Bank's Top "Crime Fighter" Quits After Only Six Months At The Job
It will probably not come as a big surprise that the head of Deutsche Bank’s global anti-financial crime unit, a post also known as the bank's top "crime fighter", plans to leave that position after...
View ArticleGlobal Stocks Rise To 1.5 Year High After Chinese Intervention Halts Dollar...
Asian stocks rose, led by Hong Kong, while European shares and U.S. equity-index futures are little changed. Euro, yen climb as the dollar posted an unexpected loss following some serious fireworks out...
View ArticleFrontrunning: January 6
December Jobs Data to Wrap Up Obama’s Economic Legacy (WSJ)FBI Says Democrats Refused Access to Hacked E-Mail Servers (BBG)As Trump attacks, Nissan at bigger risk than Toyota (Reuters)Democratic leader...
View ArticleTrimTabs Says "Insatiable" ETF Buying Is Unlike It Has Anything Ever Seen,...
On Fruday, while confirming that the meme of "Fake News" has officially gone too far, Goldman Sachs slammed the talk of a Great Rotation from bonds into stocks (yes, calling it fake news), and writing...
View Article2016 Past is 2017 Prologue
With us being just over a week into the New Year, we feel it worthwhile to look back just one last time at 2016. We believe that many of the themes and risks of 2016 continue in 2017 and that they are...
View ArticleFed's Labor Market Conditions Index Plunges Most In 7 Years
While mainstream media clung to The White House spin of record monthly streak of jobs gains after Friday's payrolls, The Fed's own Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) paints a very different picture...
View ArticleTop Five Monetary Policy Issues To Watch In 2017
Submitted by Paul-Martin Foss via The Mises Institute,With a new year come new opportunities as well as new issues to take into consideration. Here are the five most important issues to keep an eye on...
View ArticleGM Shares Jump 5% After Forecasting Higher 2017 Profits, Strong China Sales,...
So much for fears that a mini feud between the president-elect and General Motors, which was the target of one of Donald Trump's "make it in the USA or else" tweets, could pressure the stock of the US...
View ArticleA Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Experiment of...
Preface: Washington's Blog reached out to Dr. Haering after reading several excellent articles on India's cash ban. Dr. Haering then combined the information into a single article for us. We lightly...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why A $195Bn Bond Manager Believes Fiscal Policy Won't Restart...
The last time TCW's Tad Rivelle, whose firm at last checked managed roughly $195 billion, issued a warning was back in late September, when he cautioned that the "central banking Emperors have no...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Rejects Charge It Is An "Economic Terrorist"
Over the year, Deutsche Bank has been accused - and found guilty - of doing many illegal things (and paid handsomely for it, both in terms of penalties as well as sacked CEOs), but what happened...
View ArticleHere Are The Winners And Losers From Trump's "Border Tax Adjustment"
In late December, we explained why of all Trump economic proposals , the "border tax adjustment", while most controversial, could have the biggest impact on US assets. As a quick refresher, the...
View ArticleAs Wall Street Tries To Trade On Trump's Tweets, Problems Emerge
Remember when investing was about reading financial reports, following news, anticipating cash flows, inferring the impact of monetary policy on risk prices, occasionally looking at charts (because...
View ArticleTrump Has 6 Goldman Appointees- Swamp Drains You
Dear Trump Voters: Goldman Wins Again. To the Trump voters scratching their heads at the PEOTUS' recent appointments. This is the nexus of finance influencing politics in real time. Here is your...
View ArticleTreasury Specs Are So Short, It Is Now A 4 Sigma Event
With doubts that the "Trumpflation" trade is over creeping ever higher, leading to a precarious decline in the USD in recent days, and prompting comparisons to the Dollar's move at the start of 2016...
View ArticleWill Trump Save Deutsche Bank?
The focus of the investment community was recently fully aimed on the Italian banks. In just a few weeks time, we lived through the semi-failure of Banca Monti dei Paschi, the rescue of the bank (at...
View ArticleWhy The Stock Market Has Soared (And We'll All Soon Know What It's Like To Be...
Submitted by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog,What is driving the US stock markets to such amazing gains? While some corporations have seen increases in sales and most have innovated to reduce costs,...
View Article"Everything Is A Partial Reversal Of Yesterday" - Stocks, Dollar Rebound...
European shares decline led by a plunge in Pearson shares, S&P futures were modestly in the green as Asian and EM stocks gained. The dollar rebounded against most major currencies after retreating...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank To Scrap Bonuses For 2016: As Many As 90% Of Bankers, Traders...
While Deutsche Bank shareholders have certainly seen some recent relief following last year's stock acrobatics which sent the the largest German lender crashing to all time lows last fall, the bank's...
View ArticleFrontrunning: January 18
Business euphoria over Trump gives way to caution, confusion (Reuters)Biden Lashes Out at Trump Over Comments on NATO (WSJ)Number of House Democrats Skipping Inauguration Grows (WSJ)Rising U.S....
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