Sunday, March 31, 2019

30/3/19: The Art of Trade Fudge: USMCA

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Much-lauded Trump's Nafta 2.0, officially known as the United States – Mexico – Canada Agreement (USMCA) came to being on November 30,...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

12/3/19: S&P500 Concentration Risk over 10 years

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More on increasing concentration risks in the U.S. equity markets: Goldman Sachs estimates that almost 1/4 of total return to S&P500 ov...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

10/3/19: Irish Residential Construction Sector 2018: A New 'Recovery' Low

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It has been an ugly decade for Ireland's building and construction industry. especially for housing. Following a historically massive ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

6/3/19: Expectations Sand Castles and Investors

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As raging buybacks of shares and M&As have dropped the free float available in the markets over the recent years, Earnings per Share (...
Monday, March 4, 2019

4/3/19: BRIC Manufacturing PMI: January-February Trend

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In January-February 2019, Global manufacturing PMI sunk to its lowest reading since 2Q 2016 averaging 50.7 over the first two months of th...

4/3/19: S&P 500 Share Price Support Scams are a Raging Trend

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Having posted a record-breaking USD939 billion of shares repurchases in 2018, Corporate America is on track to set a new record-wrecking y...
Friday, March 1, 2019

1/3/19: U.S. PMI is not at a Crisis levels

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My take on today's ISM for Manufacturing data here:  https://twitter.com/GTCost/status/1101512164584546304 , with charts: Chill-ax ...

1/3/19: Australia is the New Ireland: How Property Hype Inflates Financial Bubbles

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Australia - a country with the biggest property bubble of all times and of all countries - is retracing the exact mis-governance steps as ...
Monday, February 25, 2019

25/2/19: Europe's TBTF Banks are only Bigger-to-Fail...

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Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and through subsequent Euro area crises, the EU frameworks for reforming financial se...

24/2/19: Eurozone's Corporate Yields are not quite in a crisis territory... yet...

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Euro area high yield corporate credit rates are under pressure to continue moving: But they are far from being dramatic, even though ...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

24/2/19: Europe of Divergence: Euro and the Crisis Aftermath

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A promise of economic convergence was one of the core reasons behind the creation of the Euro. At no time in the Euro area history has thi...

24/2/19: Buybacks vs Capex

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U.S. corporates spending or 'investing' over the last 10 years: CapEx ($6.4T), including often non-productive M&As Buyback...