It was a miserable week for all markets. April, normally the best month of the year, has turned into a miserable month. Sell in May and...
Currency wars? Is that what we have with Russia announcing that their oil and gas is to be paid for in rubles? Russia is also setting...
Stock markets crash. But do bond markets crash? Well, yes they do. We look at one of the more famous bond market crashes and then we...
Our chart of the week looks at the US$ Index and we raise questions as to whether the days of the U.S. dollar as the world's...
Sanctions have consequences. They may have unintended consequences. Russia is the world's 12th largest economy in a highly interconnected world representing roughly 1.7% of global GDP....
Will Russia invade? Will inflation prove to be just transitory? So far no. Will oil prices top $100? Will gold break through $1,900 and head for...
What are the economic costs of the blockades in Canada? We examine. Are they going to be substantial? Or merely a hiccup. For the stock markets...
The FOMC and BofC met. BofC didn't hike rates as expected. The Fed remains hawkish and that spooks the market. The U.S. dollar soared and gold...
Is the party over? We muse as the stock markets are off to one of their worst January starts ever. Fear of interest rate hikes, political...
This past week we received the inflation reports for the U.S. and they weren't pretty. CPI up 7%, the highest in 40 years, PPI up 9.7%....