Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve held its policy rate steady at 4.25%–4.50%, as Chair Jerome Powell admitted he doesn’t know ...

China’s economy showed signs of damage from the trade war in April, with a drop in export orders and the weakest production at the country’s factories in more than a year. See, Beijing doesn’t want ...

It takes about 30 days for container shipments to go from China to LA and 55 days to New York. So a drop off in shipments in ...

Dr. Lacy Hunt, Chief Economist at Hoisington Investment Management, analyzes what he calls an economic “interregnum” where five convergent forces are aligning to depress growth. Dr. Hunt methodically ...

The tactic, in which borrowers pledge their fund stakes as collateral for loans, is mostly used by private equity groups to unearth cash to fund acquisitions or dividends. However, it is being adopted ...

This brings us to serious questions: how much “long run” do we have financially, and how much capital risk are we comfortable ...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics noted that there were “no winners in trade wars” and pointed to pressure on ...

The latest record weekly flows into US Treasuries (shown below since 2017) have a familiar risk-off look. Best to watch what ...

A surge in active listing supply and an increase in price reductions failed to lure more homebuyers off the sidelines in April, as US pending home sales dropped for the fourth consecutive month (chart ...

Happy May!! Happily, not all the news is crappy! Toronto Western Hospital is just commissioning the world’s largest wastewater heating system. Yup, the hospital will be getting 90% of its heat from ...