03|03|2016

Persistent Pessimism

Week two of the year led to much of the same from week one. The sky is still falling in China and barrels of oil litter everyone’s living rooms…...

03|03|2016

Balancing Act

Markets started the week as they had the prior 2 weeks… Plummeting oil, and continued turbulence out of China. Halfway through the week, markets turned and gave us our...

03|03|2016

Et Tu, Kuroda?

Markets were buoyed on Friday by a Bank of Japan (BOJ) decision to move interest rates into negative territory. While a surprise and a signal of central banks growing...

03|03|2016

The Black Dove

The strong jobs report on Friday sent the markets into a tail spin. It increased the likelihood of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) staying the course. As the job...

03|03|2016

2008: Financial Supernova

Everyone felt the pain of 2008, however, the long term effects of the financial crisis may only now be coming into focus… Financial markets have behaved much like the...

03|03|2016

Just Below The Surface

For months now we have watched plummeting oil prices make inflation less and less of a concern. Has it turned the corner and created a scary situation for the...

03|03|2016

The Big Bank Cut

The big bank environment has been marred by ‘too big to fail’ and now the very process that saved our financial system may begin the downfall of large national...