As major central banks around the world embark on a plan to “normalize” interest rates -- allowing market forces, not central economic planners, to more directly influence outcomes –... Read More

Many political pundits have been watching the Trump campaign throughout the election season waiting for him to ramp up his advertising campaign. With Election Day less than two weeks... Read More

Michael Steinhardt is without a doubt, a Wall Street legend. Steinhardt’s fund, Steinhardt Partners, achieved a performance track record that still stands out to this day with an average annual... Read More

Guangdong: The Epicenter Of China's Rebalancing by Dan Steinbock China’s southern province, Guangdong, is emerging as a globally important innovation zone and consumer market. It moves into the future as... Read More

As market environments change, certain hedge fund investment strategies naturally fall out of favor. Hedge fund strategies in a negative territory Many hedge fund strategies ended the week in negative territory,... Read More

The government of China is willing to tolerate growth as slow as 7 percent, signalling it will act to support expansion if needed, Beijing News reported yesterday. To achieve a... Read More

Equity Flows Reverse Last week’s weekly Flow Show report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, compiled by the bank’s Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett and based on the bank’s private... Read More

Standard & Poor cut Puerto Rico’s credit rating to junk status today, a move that had been anticipated by market watchers. S&P had placed Puerto Rico’s rating on downgrade notice... Read More

At the end of last year, many analysts were predicting corporate capex would be fairly low this year, around 1.5%, but recently there have been indications that the true... Read More

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) announced its earnings for the first quarter of 2012 this week. The company revealed an earnings per share of $0.95. Analysts had predicted that the company... Read More