Driven to distraction
Central bankers can be an odd bunch. There has been something of a trend, over the past decade, for the senior jobs at what are, essentially, national cash managers to go to academics, rather than...
View ArticleWhy I have little sympathy for Asia’s whinging
In light of the Fed’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the US economy, US Treasury Secretary Geithner has had a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, no amount of monetary stimulus can change...
View ArticleThe markets rally on news of continued low US interest rates
After the last few days of turmoil as the markets floundered between despair and hope, the US Federal Reserve has stepped in and said that it planned to keep US interest rates at its historic low of...
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Top Wall St companies received $1.2 trillion in Fed loans
According to a Bloomberg report the US Federal Reserve handed out about $1.2 trillion in loans at the height of the banking crisis to banks in order to prevent the banking system totally collapsing....
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The Fed reminds investors of looming interest rate risk but the US economy...
By David Absolon, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management When most central banks across developed and emerging economies are in easing mode, the assumption that the Federal Reserve will...
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Big News This Week on the Fed, Debt Ceiling, and Physical Silver Premiums
Is this the start of a bullion uptrend? By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Gold and silver spot prices lost ground to a strengthening U.S. dollar last week. The dollar enjoyed its best week in 5...
View ArticleDriven to distraction
Central bankers can be an odd bunch. There has been something of a trend, over the past decade, for the senior jobs at what are, essentially, national cash managers to go to academics, rather than...
View ArticleWhy I have little sympathy for Asia’s whinging
In light of the Fed’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the US economy, US Treasury Secretary Geithner has had a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, no amount of monetary stimulus can change...
View ArticleThe markets rally on news of continued low US interest rates
After the last few days of turmoil as the markets floundered between despair and hope, the US Federal Reserve has stepped in and said that it planned to keep US interest rates at its historic low of...
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Top Wall St companies received $1.2 trillion in Fed loans
According to a Bloomberg report the US Federal Reserve handed out about $1.2 trillion in loans at the height of the banking crisis to banks in order to prevent the banking system totally collapsing....
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The Fed reminds investors of looming interest rate risk but the US economy...
By David Absolon, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management When most central banks across developed and emerging economies are in easing mode, the assumption that the Federal Reserve will...
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Big News This Week on the Fed, Debt Ceiling, and Physical Silver Premiums
Is this the start of a bullion uptrend? By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Gold and silver spot prices lost ground to a strengthening U.S. dollar last week. The dollar enjoyed its best week in 5...
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Top three risks in 2017 for investors: The Fed, elections in the EU, oil...
2017 looks set to bring positive news for investors, but Donald Trump’s policies and the Federal Reserve’s reaction to their impact will be the biggest risk, affirms the boss of one of the world’s...
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The Fed: Predictable and gradual?
David Absolon, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management, on how the Fed has the difficult task of unwinding a $4.5 trillion balance sheet. By David Absolon, Investment Director at...
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Are investors complacent?
Schroders' Chief Economist Keith Wade explores whether rising equity markets and the low 'fear gauge' are causing investors to become complacent, particularly against a backdrop of falling bond yields...
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US inflation rise is nothing to be scared of – so why is the Fed so hawkish?
Commenting on the latest inflation data from the US, Michael Baxter, Economics Commentator at The Share Centre said: When you think about it, this is truly remarkable. US interest rates have been...
View ArticleDriven to distraction
Central bankers can be an odd bunch. There has been something of a trend, over the past decade, for the senior jobs at what are, essentially, national cash managers to go to academics, rather than...
View ArticleWhy I have little sympathy for Asia’s whinging
In light of the Fed’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the US economy, US Treasury Secretary Geithner has had a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, no amount of monetary stimulus can change...
View ArticleThe markets rally on news of continued low US interest rates
After the last few days of turmoil as the markets floundered between despair and hope, the US Federal Reserve has stepped in and said that it planned to keep US interest rates at its historic low of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top Wall St companies received $1.2 trillion in Fed loans
According to a Bloomberg report the US Federal Reserve handed out about $1.2 trillion in loans at the height of the banking crisis to banks in order to prevent the banking system totally collapsing....
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