Investing Caffeine

MAY 2, 2022

As you can see from the chart below, there have been no shortage of issues and events to worry about over the last 15 years (2007 – 2022): 2008-2009: Financial Crisis 2010: Flash Crash (electronic trading collapse) 2011: Debt Ceiling – Eurozone Collapse 2012: Greek Debt Crisis – Arab Spring (anti-government protests) 2012: Presidential Elections (..)

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Investing Caffeine

MARCH 1, 2022

As you can see below, the worst economic impact is forecasted to be felt by Russia (consensus on 2/24/22 of approximately a -1.0% hit to economic growth), more than twice as bad as the -0.2% a rounding error and less than 1% of total global economic activity). Source: The Financial Times. knock to growth for the U.S.,

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WiserAdvisor

JANUARY 8, 2023

The economic strain of the pandemic continued. The record inflation and the global financial turmoil caused by the Ukraine-Russia war are other striking concerns. A lot of investors use the New Year to review their portfolios, change asset allocations, and prepare for the coming months. government.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

could fall victim to long-term economic stagnation, similar to the fate that befell Japan starting in the 1990s. Japan’s GDP had grown by an average of more than 5% per year from 1950 to 1989—a true post-War economic miracle. government debt is nearly 110%, compared to 82% ten years ago and 32% in 1981 (its modern-day low point).

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

could fall victim to long-term economic stagnation, similar to the fate that befell Japan starting in the 1990s. Investors who were active in the late 1980s will recall that asset prices in Japan reached extreme levels as money poured into the country from all over the world, propelled by extraordinary economic growth.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 3, 2015

No central bank has ever wound down such massive stimulus, so the potential impact on the economy and financial markets is not clear. The easing helped stabilize financial markets, reduced the risk of deflation and resuscitated the economy and job growth. Concern about future economic growth undermines valuations.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED). Furthermore, if you give the Fed the benefit of the doubt of achieving this uncertain target, this 2.5% level is very appealing and still extremely low, historically speaking ( see chart below ). Many investors are very myopic in their focus on U.S. interest rates.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. It was 16 hour days and it was six or seven days a week, but you really got to learn the financial markets there. So it has a lot of parallels to the way we think about asset allocation at Magnetar.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This math explains why we shouldn’t be surprised when the market remains “irrational” far longer than seems possible. Even worse, our economic and market models typically assume a “mild randomness” of market fluctuations. But we are. The world is far more random than we’d like to think.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2016

As we write this letter, financial markets are grappling with plenty of controversy and uncertainty, from the aftershocks of the dramatic fall in oil prices, to the potential impact of a British exit from the EU, to the implications of the pending U.S. Economic growth in the U.S. Midyear Planning Tools for 2016.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) CHABRAN: And find a reason why they would allocate there. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class. Certainly that helps the top 10 percent in the United States.

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Investing Caffeine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

However, the economic impact should not be overstated either. In other words, the hundreds of billions of dollars in financial stock market losses this month are not proportional to the Mideast economic losses incurred thus far. And let’s not forget, economic activity is not dropping to zero.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Inflation dropping ( see chart below ), the Federal Reserve signaling a decline in interest rates, low unemployment ( 3.7% ), and healthy economic growth ( +3.3% Q4 – GDP ) have all contributed to the continuing bull market run. When it comes to the financial markets, money continues to go where it is treated best.

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