Friday, October 16, 2015

Nudge? More Savings, Less Choice + MORE 3:19 pm Oct 16th

Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?Most people believe the Fed can print money. Caught on tape, former Fed chair Ben Bernanke once admitted the Fed prints money.However, in Hoisington’s Third Quarter 2015 Review, economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. Let’s take a look, emphasis mine. Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest…

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CWS Market Review – October 16, 2015

– crossingwallstreet.com

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” – Rene Rivkin
Last week, I sounded the “All Clear” signal, and the market has responded. On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed at its highest level in eight weeks. The index has now risen for 10 of the last 13 days. Ever since Carl Icahn warned investors of danger ahead, the stock market has jumped 7…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Ever since the August of last year, crude oil has been volatile, mainly in a bad way. The price of Brent and WTI was almost $100 per barrel then, the price of the two grades is around $50 per barrel or less now. Crude has halved because of weak macro economic factors and Saudi Arabia deciding…

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VIX Fat-Finger-Frenzy Sums Up The New Normal MarketsIt’s Option Expiration.. and that can mean only one thing – ridiculous and disjoined entirely illiquid jerky moves in equity markets (and their respective derivatives)…     And the S&P follows…   The options ‘tail’ continues to wag the stock market ‘dog’ – Thanks Janet   Charts: Bloomberg

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Nudge? More Savings, Less ChoiceFirms are boosting automatic retirement-savings rate, but there is some pushback from employees:
 
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Source: WSJ

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EM stocks catch fire as inflows return

– thereformedbroker.com

This week, I put out my monthly letter to clients of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Here’s a snippet on EM stocks that should set the stage for what I will show you next…
I want to point something out about emerging market investing in general: as a category, it is more despised than at any time I can remember since 1998…

Continue Reading On thereformedbroker.com »

Lifting the US Oil Export Ban

– cfainstitute.org

For the first time in some 40 years, there is the real potential for the United States to re-enter the oil export market. With this in mind, we asked our esteemed CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief readers, “Do you think the United States potentially lifting its oil-export ban will have a meaningful impact on future oil prices?” Read more

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from Royalty Gateway http://www.royaltygateway.com/nudge-more-savings-less-choice-more-319-pm-oct-16th/
Can the Fed Really Print Money? What Would Negative Interest Rates Do?Most people believe the Fed can print money. Caught on tape, former Fed chair Ben Bernanke once admitted the Fed prints money.However, in Hoisington’s Third Quarter 2015 Review, economist Lacy Hunt makes the claim the Fed cannot print money. Let’s take a look, emphasis mine. Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest…

Continue Reading On globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com »

CWS Market Review – October 16, 2015

– crossingwallstreet.com

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” – Rene Rivkin
Last week, I sounded the “All Clear” signal, and the market has responded. On Thursday, the S&P 500 closed at its highest level in eight weeks. The index has now risen for 10 of the last 13 days. Ever since Carl Icahn warned investors of danger ahead, the stock market has jumped 7…

Continue Reading On crossingwallstreet.com »

Ever since the August of last year, crude oil has been volatile, mainly in a bad way. The price of Brent and WTI was almost $100 per barrel then, the price of the two grades is around $50 per barrel or less now. Crude has halved because of weak macro economic factors and Saudi Arabia deciding…

[[ This is a content summary only…

Continue Reading On insidermonkey.com »

VIX Fat-Finger-Frenzy Sums Up The New Normal MarketsIt’s Option Expiration.. and that can mean only one thing – ridiculous and disjoined entirely illiquid jerky moves in equity markets (and their respective derivatives)…     And the S&P follows…   The options ‘tail’ continues to wag the stock market ‘dog’ – Thanks Janet   Charts: Bloomberg

Continue Reading On zerohedge.com/ »

Nudge? More Savings, Less ChoiceFirms are boosting automatic retirement-savings rate, but there is some pushback from employees:
 
Click for ginormous graphic

Source: WSJ

Continue Reading On ritholtz.com »

EM stocks catch fire as inflows return

– thereformedbroker.com

This week, I put out my monthly letter to clients of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Here’s a snippet on EM stocks that should set the stage for what I will show you next…
I want to point something out about emerging market investing in general: as a category, it is more despised than at any time I can remember since 1998…

Continue Reading On thereformedbroker.com »

Lifting the US Oil Export Ban

– cfainstitute.org

For the first time in some 40 years, there is the real potential for the United States to re-enter the oil export market. With this in mind, we asked our esteemed CFA Institute Financial NewsBrief readers, “Do you think the United States potentially lifting its oil-export ban will have a meaningful impact on future oil prices?” Read more

Continue Reading On cfainstitute.org »

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